Yandex.Keyboard

Yandex.Keyboard is the keyboard designed for Android devices by the Russian company to enhance the messaging experience offered by the operating system

We tested the Yandex.Keyboard keyboard

The Russian Internet company Yandex competes with Google in Russia and in the countries under its sphere of influence and has established itself in various online services such as search, navigation and maps. Now there were still no applications for the Android keyboard, so the company is now making Yandex.Keyboard available.

The keyboard for users of the Yandex app ecosystem

This keyboard for Android aims to compete with that of Google and other vendors and tries to provide more precise features such as intelligent auto-correction, voice input support, a glide-based writing system or embedded translations.

This is an especially useful tool, especially if you speak Russian and use the Yandex app ecosystem. These are the main features of the app:

• Simple design.
• night mode.
• Built-in translation with speech recognition for over 70 languages.
• Voice input to record audio messages.
• Custom Emoticons, Kaomojis, GIFs and Stickers.
• Support for precise swipe writing.
• Guarantee (according to the developer) of privacy protection.
• Machine learning to help the user write ahead.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 5.0.