Google might soon implement a cool feature to Android which will bring ‘drag-and-drop’ support to your smartphone. Google has received a patent for ‘Drag and Drop’ feature which will enhance the UX for Android users.

This ‘Drag and Drop’ feature, which is yet to be implemented, will come with support for text, images, video files and even work between applications as well. It will let you select an object and directly drag it to the place you want, saving you the time and energy presently required to mark, copy and then paste a text from one location to another in your phone.

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Once the new feature comes to Android phones, all you will need to do, to copy a phone number from your browser to your dialer, just mark the text and drag it to your dialing app.

Also, according to the patent, the ‘drag-and-drop’ feature will also make your task easier by suggesting the applications where you can drop the content you have dragged. If an image is chosen to be dragged, the feature will automatically show those apps that can accept an image as an input, for example messaging apps such as Snapchat and photo editing apps.

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This feature can also be used with Google Assistant to make the experience richer. But as of now, Google has not specified when it plans to roll out the ‘drag and drop’ feature to Android phones. And whether it ever intends to release it at all. After all, patents remaining on paper and never making to the market is not en entirely new thing, isn’t it?

Source: USPTO, via: WhatFuture, Phone Arena