Android seems to have quietly given us an easier way to do so using the Smart Text Selection feature
this new “easter egg” functionality from your Android device using the Smart Text Selection too
The tool lets you pass text that you highlighted from one app to another through the suggestions in the box.
If you highlight a phone number, you will see the Phone app in the tool box or if it’s an email address, it will suggest Gmail, and so on and so forth
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Smart Text Selection tool.
When you’re highlighting what it detects to be a measurement, it will include both the number and the unit
Then you’ll see a Convert option, next to Cut, Copy, and Paste and then it will hand it over to the Google app adding the word “convert” to the search term. You will then have to select the unit you want to convert it to.
This seems to work on most units including length, weight, volume, as well as currency