Will Android O Copyless Pasting Feature Come to Google Chrome 60 for Desktop?

Copyless Paste Android O Google Chrome

Android O is the next major update for the Android mobile device ecosystem, and it is bringing a very cool feature using machine learning, one of the foundations of artificial intelligence. Do you get annoyed that you have to select and copy a piece of text to your clipboard before you’re able to paste it anywhere else? You probably don’t, because that’s the way it’s always been done.

But what about Copyless Pasting? Is that even possible – to paste something that you haven’t first copied? That’s exactly what Google is trying to achieve with the help of machine learning. For example, if you check out a restaurant’s website on Google Chrome, and then you switch to the Google Maps app, you will receive suggestions on what to paste, like the name of the restaurant and so on.

Google clarifies that privacy is key, and the data doesn’t get sent to Google for the predictions, but resides locally on your Android device running Android O.

Venture Beat spotted this feature a few days ago in the Google Chrome Canary build for Android, but Google has yet to make it public knowledge. However, the feature was also spotted on the open source Chromium code repository by Android Authority.

While this functionality is expected to come to Android O when the update is made available to general users, it’s quite possible that Google wants to bring it to Google Chrome for other platforms as well, such as desktop and maybe even iOS. Right now it’s not even featuring on beta builds for developers, but it should come to those builds of Android O very soon. Venture Beat’s Jordan Novet expects that the Android version will come to Google Chrome 60 for Android, so there’s no reason it won’t come to Google Chrome for desktop and iOS shortly after.

Android O is currently available for developers to test and tweak their apps or create new apps, and it is likely to be announced in May at Google’s I/O 2017. Other features on Android O include extended battery life for the device, a redesigned notification system and picture-in-picture capability.

Considering the fact that Google Pixel 2, which launches in October, will come with Android O out of the box, we expect the new mobile OS version to be developed at a rapid clip. More on that here:

Android O: From Developer Preview 1 to Google Pixel 2 in Under Six Months?

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