Ok Google is a the service de search by voice, available for devices Android, which allows the user to locate content in the Google universe. For a few months it has been available on our devices, to carry out searches of all kinds in a more comfortable way.
La novelty is that now this service will be available for developers de applications, so that the apps can count on their particular Ok Google, to locate a content within that android application.
What is Ok Google?
Ok Google is an Internet search service from Google, which works by voice. The user dictates a word and without having to touch the mobile or tablet, the device returns searches for the term that interests us.
It arrived in the Spanish language in June 2014, months after it landed on the Anglo-Saxon market.
Undoubtedly, all of you who have used it will surely have a good opinion of it, since it facilitates searches on many occasions in which it is difficult to use your fingers to navigate with your Android device.
now for android apps
From Mountain View they have the opinion that if the world can be easier for everyone, the better... and for this reason they have allowed themselves the luxury of sharing this tool, with any application that wants to implement it.
In other words, if we are looking for a restaurant in an application specialized in giving ratings and opinions of this type of establishment, with the implementation of Ok Google, we will only have to communicate the name of the restaurant in question with our voice to the device.
The application will search its contents for information related to the word entered, reporting all the data we are looking for.
Being concise will help our searches
When dictating the words, we need to indicate the most appropriate words for the topic of interest. That is, forget prepositions, conjunctions, secondary terms for the search or very general.
Phones in which Ok Google is even more integrated
There are Android terminals like the Moto X, in which the integration of voice search is greater than in other devices. This particular phone could be said to be 'always listening' and allows you to activate it just by saying 'Ok Google' or searching for an app without having to touch a single place on the phone's screen.
For developers...
From the Google developers blog they indicate that the Ok Google integration is available for Android devices that have at least the Jelly Bean version and the Google application 3.5 or higher.
Google Search
The Ok Google tool is present in the Google Search app. You probably have it installed, but in Google Play you can get it for free:
What do you think of this novelty of incorporating Ok Google to the applications? As a developer or as a user, do you think it is an optimal measure?
We await your comments at the foot of this news or in our Android Applications Forum.