Google Translate’s live camera translation feature is still one of the most impressive features I’ve seen in a mobile app, and one of the most convincing reasons that Google Glass should be resurrected. Google Translate’s 5.7 update, in addition to fixing a sharing bug with Facebook Messenger, adds support for instant English to/from Japanese translation via the camera.

Left, Center: Normal camera translation; Right: Instant camera translation

If you have never used it, simply download the offline translation pack for a given language (in this case, 42MB for Japanese), tap the camera icon in Translate, and make sure the eye icon at the bottom right is green.

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Google Translate adds instant camera English/Japanese translation [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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