I’ve been using it for a while now on my Pixel and I gotta say it’s actually really useful, you can copy text from anywhere, even apps that normally won’t let you (both intentionally blocked and unintentionally) copy/select text
And the easy “translate what’s on my screen” functionality has been really good on Lemmy when I come across the random German memes lmao
The actual search function also comes in handy when I want to reverse search an image from an app, but the app won’t let me save it. It’s nice to skip a step or 2.
That being said, since it’s actually good I now expect it to be nerfed and/or abandoned in about 6 months
That being said, since it’s actually good I now expect it to be nerfed and/or abandoned in about 6 months
Exactly this, Google is where it is because generally its products start out pretty good
isn’t it just a new way to access screen based search? i mean, i can do things you tak about by launching google assistant (non-gemini) and choosing “search on my screen”, i use it daily to translate difficult japanese in my dulingo, select text and search on my non-pixel/samsung phone, it’ there since few years AFAIK, i don’t think it’s going anywhere, because reverse image search is the future, also you’re training their neural networks that way(👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉
Do you know if there’s a FOSS project that does any of this? Android does provide a screen capture API, and there are some FOSS OCR and translation apps separately, bit I don’t know of one that combines these things.
I think it has gotten better since it was first released for Samsung. The new translate button is very good.
Even if its nerfed and abandoned, a heartening new trend that I’ve seen is cutting edge technology being democratized in FOSS apps. There’s all sorts of ai stuff and image stuff that was limited to the top five tech companies a year ago that’s now available to everyone.
