| Android users of Indic languages have a reason to rejoice. Indic languages will take a new step in the digital world with a new Indic keyboard coming in, that supports 11 languages, allowing the consumers to download local language keyboards for their mobile devices. |  |
Developed by developer collective Swathanthra Malayalam Computing , the Indic keyboard has crossed 100,000 downloads. It is worth mentioning here that Google's Hindi keyboard has already witnessed 10 million downloads. Similar traction is seen for other language keyboards like Kannada.
Speaking about the keyboard, Vishal Anand, chief product officer at news app Newshunt said, “We are seeing beginnings of content creation phase. As more people start writing more keyboards will get more intelligent and better.”
We have seen that attempts to increase local language penetration on desktop have proved not so successful. But this attempt of local language input methods or ways of typing into a computing device, has lead to promotion of more local language content. It will also lead to a 'virtuous cycle' of local language adoption. Anand said, “Indic language is going through the same evolution that western languages went through.” The new Indic keyboard was built by Jishnu Mohan, a member of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.
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