The company Yandex has released its own keyboard for Apple’s smartphone. It has everything you need for communication: predictive input and spell check is to write quickly and without errors, search pictures, gifs – to Express what is difficult to put into words, search for places and addresses in order to inform friends where an appointment and an interpreter to communicate with those who do not know Russian language. In the enabled keyboard and Emoji set: when the user types on the smartphone the text, it selects Emoji that are appropriate in meaning to the words and shows them in tooltips.
To distract from correspondence is not necessary: all the tools are built right into the keyboard. If images for some reason not suitable, you can draw and send your own picture. To do this, the keyboard Yandex there is a small graphics editor — even without levels and layers, but with pencils of different colors and the Undo button in case falter hand.
To tell friends where you are or where an appointment, no need to switch between applications. Using the Keypad without leaving the chat to send your current coordinates or the address of the desired institution. It will show a list of nearby bars, cinemas and hotels — but if the place is on the other side of town, you’ll find the address on the title.
In the keyboard Yandex there is automatic translator. He is able to translate individual words and whole phrases in 60 languages, from English to Swahili, so you and your interlocutors understood each other.
To speed up the typing help of special gestures. For example, to switch the keyboard layout, just swipe your finger across the screen, and to move the cursor to the desired location — hold down the spacebar and move your finger in the desired direction.
“The keyboard closest to the user interface with others we are either talking or texting, — says Sergey fayfer, head of the experimental products of Yandex. — In instant messengers and social networks has to constantly switch between apps: looking for a link, a picture, anything else. So that people can focus on what really matters — communication, we released Yandex.Keyboard, where everything you need right at hand.”
“Under the hood” of the keyboard are the Yandex services. Search for images meet Pictures, addresses and Maps, and for text translation — Translator. The keyboard works on the iPhone on iOS 8 and iOS 9. Download the app for free in the App Store.
