Google Translate has been downloaded 1 billion times: how it has improved as it evolved

Today, April 29, representatives of Google officially announced that in March 2021, the Google Translate application for the Android operating system from the Google Play store was downloaded one billion times. In honor of such a significant event, the developers of the service talked about how their project has changed from year to year, how it has learned to simplify life while traveling and when communicating with people speaking other languages. At the moment, the platform understands 109 languages, providing a dialogue between millions of people, but at the start everything was much more modest, and the application itself looked completely different.

January 2010: app launch

Google released a translator app for Android in January 2010, just a year after the first commercial Android device was launched. Over the next few years, the company continued to refine the app as many people began to actively use it. New features have been introduced that significantly improve the user experience – an early version of the talk mode, the offline translation function, and the translation of handwritten and typed texts.

One of the first versions of the Google Translate app for Android

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