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2026-08-20 16:50
Building an AI Translator Keyboard for iOS and Android: Privacy, Latency, and UX Lessons
Translating a message on a phone often means leaving the conversation, opening a translator, pasting the text, copying the result, and returning to the original app.
I wanted to remove that loop.
The idea behind AI Translator Keyboard was simple: type in the text field you are already using, tap one translation key, review the result, and send it yourself.
The implementation was not simple at a...
