Microsoft releases keyboard on Android Wear

Analog Keyboard of Microsoft allows you to write with your finger on the small screen of the wearable Android Wear. Analog Keyboard is a handwriting recognition software for Android Wear, of Microsoft. Compatible with the wearable devices based on the platform of Google, lets you enter text using the narrow surface of the wearable, smartwatch in the first place. Microsoft itself considers shown as a prototype, which allows you to hand write the text you want to put on the clock or on wearable.

” By becoming smaller and smaller displays, touch keyboards are becoming more difficult to use, ” says Microsoft announcing the news. ” With the Analog Keyboard project, we are studying the use of handwriting recognition as a method of input on touch screens very small. The video shows our prototype to Wear Android running on Motorola Moto 360 and Samsung Gear Live. ”

Analog Keyboard easily recognize special characters and numbers and has two accessory keys, space and backspace. In the middle, we can draw with your finger through the letters, while the complete phrase will be displayed in a text box at the top. The software also supports Microsoft’s resolution 320×320 square and circular Moto 360.

Microsoft has released a video in which specific rules for the use permitted by its own keyboard software. This can be useful when writing messages in searches, if not forced, we believe that devices of this type voice dictation is more rapid and painless during use.

Analog Keyboard for Android Wear is available for download at this address. The installation instructions are inside the zip file, the file HowToInstall.txt.