Gestures make mobile use more agile and intuitive, and it would be even better if we also equipped them with artificial intelligence to make them more versatile and ultimately intelligent. Without going any further, I think that ambient search is the best thing that has happened to Android in this sense for years. It was initially limited in terms of devices and functions, but People around continue to vitaminize to search is becoming increasingly indispensable.

Be careful because His first mission was not small: It was enough to draw a circle on the screen for the device to understand what was inside and search for it, as long as it was plain text, image, video… without the need for additional applications. It’s like you see it yourself, understand what it is and search for it. This has been really useful for me in all kinds of tasks, both professional and personal, during these months.

The search environment continues to evolve and is now very important to me

Later on, he wanted to retire Shazam for song recognition, but it continues to improve and is currently available Scan and extract information from barcodes and QR codesAnother advantage of surround search that came after its launch is the ability to share all or part of the screen in other applications or with other people without having to take a screenshot.

This innovation was highlighted by Android expert Mishaal Rahman in his X profile and the best thing is that you don’t have to do anything. Let me explain: just update your device To take advantage of this extra functionality.

In this way and if you have enabled the ‘surround to seek’ option, This will go to information that you can read from the code and clarify what it is.Considering the amount of code we encounter on a daily basis, this is a utility that I would greatly benefit from.

In his post, Rahman limits himself to visiting a website with a QR code in it, and after rolling that code, it turns it into a much more intuitive and easier to interact with URL.

And this is just the beginning, because Search environments still have the potential to grow their capabilities and more importantly, it’s not just available on Samsung Galaxy and Pixel, but on more phones.

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