Smart Text Selection is one of Android’s most popular features, assisting users in selecting, copying, and using text by anticipating the desired word or combination of words around a user’s tap and expanding the selection appropriately. Selections are automatically extended with this feature, and users are offered an app to open selections with defined classification categories, such as addresses and phone numbers, saving them even more time.

The Google team made efforts to improve the performance of Smart Text Selection by utilizing federated learning to train a neural network model responsible for user interactions while maintaining personal privacy. The research team was able to enhance the model’s selection accuracy by up to 20% on some sorts of entities thanks to this effort, which is part of Android’s new Private Compute Core safe environment.     Read More