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Tom Pritchard

Android 16 could fix one of the most annoying things about AI tools

Android 16 logo on a samsung galaxy smartphone.

If you dislike writing, or find that you’re generally not very good at it, then you’;re probably quite happy about the recent wave of AI writing tools. But for all those times when you want to be able to write authentically, and without machine assistance, Android 16 might be able to step in and help.

According to Mishaal Rahman, who has been snooping through Android 16 developer preview 2, there appear to be two new features in the EditorInfo class related to Android’s AI writing tools — isWritingToolsEnabled() and setWritingToolsEnabled(). For those that don’t know, the EditorInfo class is the link between keyboards and apps, letting the two share information about what’s in text fields.

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