Thursday, July 21, 2016

Chrooma Keyboard Updated With Google Keyboard 5.0 Features, Google Now Integration, Much More





Chrooma Keyboard was updated to version 3.0 this morning, bringing many new features to the keyboard app. Inside of version 3.0, the Chrooma team has implemented what appears to be all of the major changes that arrived for Google Keyboard 5.0. These changes include dragging on the space bar to move the cursor, as well as swiping on the space bar to enable a one-hand operation mode.


Chrooma also made Google Keyboard's function more polished by adding their own ingredients, such as an improved Action Row, Google Now integration for built-in search, and two new keyboard styles with key boarders. 

Instead of seeing cards from Google Now or something similar to Gboard (available only for iOS), Chrooma performs a Google Search with Google Now, bringing up results inside of Google. For example, if you type “Cavs” into a message, then swipe up on the space bar, you will be brought to the standard search results for that inquiry. It’s nothing too fancy, but still a helpful feature for quick searches.

Chrooma also says that there are new settings to play with, custom gesture trail colors to create, plus improvements for gestures and predictions.

Here is the full changelog of What’s New:
  • Restored tablet compatibility
  • Google Now integration
  • Text suggestion and prediction improved
  • Gesture improvement
  • New settings
  • Emoji page restyle, plus new emoji
  • Action Row – put everything on this customizable row
  • Swipe to top on delete to delete all
  • Swipe to left on delete to delete word
  • Drag on spacebar to move the cursor
  • Swipe on spacebar to enable one hand mode
  • Custom gesture trail color
  • Two new keyboard styles with key borders

Pokemon Go Update Adds Support for Android Nougat





Following an iOS update yesterday that addressed the Google Account privacy issue, Pokemon Go for Android has just received an update to version 0.29.2. The most notable feature is support for devices running the Android N Developer Preview or Nougat.

Unlike the iOS version, the update did not come with release notes on Google Play or the Pokemon Go site. The only major change seems to be support for Android 7.0 Nougat. During the field test, opening the app on Android N devices would just show a grey screen.

After entering a birth date, the latest version fully loads and allows users to sign-in with either Google or a Pokemon Trainer Club account. Performance seems unchanged and the update likely focuses on crashes and bug fixes. The release notes for iOS are below:

  • Trainers do not to have to enter their username and password repeatedly after a force logout
  • Added stability to Pokémon Trainer Club account log-in process
  • Resolved issues causing crashes
  • Fixed Google account scope

While yesterday’s iOS update added a mention to the Google Cardboard library under Settings > About > Licenses, the Android version mentioned Cardboard since the original launch version. It’s likely that Pokemon Go will see some virtual reality features down the road.
Here is the version 0.29.2 of the app and it can be downloaded from APK Mirror or you can download it from Play Store or to manually download the APK from APK Mirror .