The Indian subcontinent Android users can now grab the updated Swiftkey keyboard from Google Play for free and get typing in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali and Sinhala. With this update, Swiftkey now supports a total of 15 languages spoken in the region.
In addition to the new languages, the Swiftkey update also bring several improvements to the keyboard app like more responsive typing, lower keyboard open/ close time and faster switching between fields.
Full change-log
- Keyboard is faster to appear, quicker to disappear
- More responsive typing
- Easier correction of capitalization
- 12 New Indian Languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali, Sinhala
- Emoji Prediction support for 14 additional languages, including: Bulgarian, Finnish, Romanian and Ukrainian
- Multiple bug fixes
One reply on “Updated Swiftkey keyboard adds support for 12 Indian subcontinent languages”
So happy they did this dude.