Earlier this week, Google Keyboard was rebranded as Gboard , Google has made it officially available for Android users via Play Store. Gboard app merges the Google’s search features along with the keyboard, allowing users to look for GIFs, emojis, information and more right within the app. The app was initially released for iOS on May 2016, and it took seven months for Google to bring it to the Android OS.
The app includes the standard features on Google's keyboard, including autocorrect and text predictions, swipe typing that lets you slide your finger from letter to letter instead of tapping, and voice dictation.
The best part about Gboard keyboard is that the Google Search integration works with all the apps. Google Search icon is located on the top right, just above the keyboard. Tapping on the icon brings new search tap where you can type in your query. By default, the app offers you with three search suggestions — “At what time does the sun set?, Weather, and News.” Here’s where it gets interesting. Say you are in middle of a conversation on WhatsApp and discussing about having pizza to eat, and you tap on the search icon and type ‘pizza.’ This will return some suggestions such as “pizza hut delivery near me”, “pizza hut coupons” and “pizza hut”.
You can also send GIFs and emojis within the conversation. Earlier, you were required to download a standalone app such as ‘Giphy’ to copy the emoji and send. However, with GIF search within the Gboard app, you no longer need to install another app.
“Gboard has all the things you love about your old Google Keyboard — speed and accuracy, Glide Typing and voice typing — plus Google Search built in,” Google’s Reena Lee explains. “You can search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more — right from your keyboard. As an added bonus, we’ve added multilingual typing to help you switch languages on the fly.”
Gboard for Android benefits from artificial intelligence technology to better predict what you want to type and correct your typos, Lee said. And for multilanguage users, Gboard can suggest words from any of your supported languages at the same time, so there's no more frustration trying to choose between "the" in English and "thé" in French.
It looks interesting. I was going to go and give it a try, but I there was no rush: It was waiting in my “to install” list anyway, since this thing will replace the stock keyboard automatically.
Gboard is available in the Google Play store in 100 languages starting Friday, with more language support on the way.
The app includes the standard features on Google's keyboard, including autocorrect and text predictions, swipe typing that lets you slide your finger from letter to letter instead of tapping, and voice dictation.
The best part about Gboard keyboard is that the Google Search integration works with all the apps. Google Search icon is located on the top right, just above the keyboard. Tapping on the icon brings new search tap where you can type in your query. By default, the app offers you with three search suggestions — “At what time does the sun set?, Weather, and News.” Here’s where it gets interesting. Say you are in middle of a conversation on WhatsApp and discussing about having pizza to eat, and you tap on the search icon and type ‘pizza.’ This will return some suggestions such as “pizza hut delivery near me”, “pizza hut coupons” and “pizza hut”.
You can also send GIFs and emojis within the conversation. Earlier, you were required to download a standalone app such as ‘Giphy’ to copy the emoji and send. However, with GIF search within the Gboard app, you no longer need to install another app.
“Gboard has all the things you love about your old Google Keyboard — speed and accuracy, Glide Typing and voice typing — plus Google Search built in,” Google’s Reena Lee explains. “You can search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more — right from your keyboard. As an added bonus, we’ve added multilingual typing to help you switch languages on the fly.”
Gboard for Android benefits from artificial intelligence technology to better predict what you want to type and correct your typos, Lee said. And for multilanguage users, Gboard can suggest words from any of your supported languages at the same time, so there's no more frustration trying to choose between "the" in English and "thé" in French.
It looks interesting. I was going to go and give it a try, but I there was no rush: It was waiting in my “to install” list anyway, since this thing will replace the stock keyboard automatically.
Gboard is available in the Google Play store in 100 languages starting Friday, with more language support on the way.
Google is replacing Android Keyboard to Gboard
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