This week, on our weekly news roundup: numerous US carriers start pushing out Android Pie to the S9 series, OxyenOS Beta brings numerous bug fixes and improvements for a few OnePlus devices, and more!Google
Google
What's new this week?
- Latest update for Gboard brings 50 new languages to the table
OnePlus
- OxygenOS Beta update is here for the OnePlus 5/5T and 6/6T
Samsung
- Numerous US carriers are now pushing Android Pie to the Galaxy S9 series
Gboard (App)
Typing is one of the most frequent activities that we perform on our smartphones. But, there are so many languages in the world that it's not uncommon for some people to not be able to type in their native language.Thankfully, Gboard supports more than 500 languages right now and the latest update adds 50 more to that list. And with that being said, only a very small percentage of the world's population is using them. So, kudos to Google.To be more precise, these are the latest additions:- Alur, Anaang (Nigeria)
- Arabic (Algeria)
- Awadhi (Transliteration)
- Banyumasan, Bouyei, Brahui (Arabic)
- Bulu-Bene (Cameroon)
- Chimborazo Highland Kichwa, Dagaare, Dotyali (Nepal)
- Dungan, East Franconian (Germany)
- Eastern Tamang (Nepal)
- Gujari (Pakistan)
- Guyanese Creole, Hani, Haya (Tanzania)
- Hmong (China)
- Hmu (China)
- Iu Mien, Karakalpak (Cyrillic)
- Karay-a (Philippines)
- Kelantan-Pattani Malay (Arabic)
- Kirmanjki (Turkey)
- Kwanyama, Lampung Api (Indonesia)
- Limbu, Ma'anyan (Indonesia)
- Magahi (India)
- Makonde, Malay, Latin (Singapore)
- Manado Malay (Indonesia)
- Mandinka, Muong (Vietnam)
- Musi (Indonesia)
- Ngaju (Indonesia)
- North Moluccan Malay (Indonesia)
- Northern Hindko, Nyamwezi (Tanzania)
- Rangpuri (Devanagari)
- Silesian, Songe (DRC)
- Southern Hindko, Southern Kurdish, Sylheti, Latin, Umbundu (Angola)
- Urum, Vlax Romani (Romania)
- Yongbei Zhuang (China)