Back in 2018, Google’s keyboard app for Android and iOS added “customized stickers based on you.” The Gboard 9.5 beta today suggests that “Minis” will soon be removed, while there’s more work on emoji suggestions.
Emoji help us better express ourselves over text messages, and now, Google’s Gboard is testing a new “emoji bar” option to give users faster access.
Google Messages has one big attractive feature in RCS, but other parts of the app have made it a great offering for all users. For a while, Google has been working on adding smart suggestions for stickers in Google Messages since last year, and now, it looks like that feature will be going live soon, and Gboard is testing a similar function too!
Voice dictation is a really handy feature for getting out a message if you can’t type manually, but the usefulness of that feature relies heavily on how fast, and more importantly, how accurate it is. In a recent tweet that’s gone viral, we’re reminded just how much better voice typing is on a Pixel phone compared to Apple’s iPhone.
Following a widely hated A/B test that slapped Google’s logo on the spacebar of Gboard for Android, Google is moving on to something I’m sure everyone will love. For some users, Gboard is testing handy one-tap clipboard suggestions.
Overnight, Google flipped the switch for a ton of Gboard users that put the company’s logo smack dab in the middle of the spacebar. Some people don’t care, others are outraged. Where do you stand on the matter?
Over the past day or so, Google has made a quiet update to its Gboard keyboard for Android. For whatever reason, Google has decided to slap its own logo on the Gboard spacebar and people are unsurprisingly not fans of the change.
Originally billed as providing fast access to search, the Google keyboard has since grown to include many expressive features and a built-in clipboard. A Gboard for Android bug this evening sees the Google button disappear.
Google’s Gboard keyboard for Android and iOS packs on plenty of features, one of those being the ability to predict what you’ll type next. In the background, though, Google has a secret list of “bad words” that it blocks from appearing in Gboard prediction results, and now that list includes a few coronavirus related terms.
The latest Gboard beta for Android has now improved some issues that might have plagued some users for a little while.
Android later this year will introduce 62 new emoji, including a polar bear, bubble tea, and piñata. In the meantime, Gboard is offering customized sticker suggestions as part of its “Emoji Kitchen.”
A few weeks after the last beta, Gboard 9.0 is rolling out with developments on a number of fronts. In addition to an image clipboard manager, we’ve enabled some tweaks to that UI and others to the voice typing experience.
Earlier this week, the Chromium Gerrit revealed that Chrome will soon let you copy images directly to Android’s clipboard. We’ve managed to enable that capability today, along with an image clipboard manager in the latest Gboard beta.
Google’s keyboard for Android, Gboard, is full of useful features and works really well. However, the latest update to Gboard is causing a crashing issue for some Android smartphones which is even going as far as locking some users out of their devices.
The latest Gboard beta is rolling out today after features like translating emoji into GIFs and stickers emerged over the weekend. Gboard 8.9 introduces a new design for the sticker tab, while making some visual tweaks in settings.
Back in July, our APK Insight of Gboard revealed work on a new suggestions feature that essentially translates emoji into GIFs and stickers. “Emoji browsing suggestions” are now beginning to roll out for some Android users.
The latest beta of Google’s Android keyboard is rolling out this afternoon with a handful of changes in development. Gboard 8.8 most notably details how the emoji handwriting feature is going away.
The latest beta of Google’s keyboard app is rolling out today with two features that are already live. In Gboard 8.7, there are two new keyboard height choices and settings for handwriting speed and stroke width.
The latest beta of Google’s keyboard app for Android rolled out yesterday evening. Gboard 8.6 reveals works on a “Symbols keyboard,” sticker UI redesign, and sponsored GIFs, as well as a ghost.
The latest Gboard beta features a slew of changes, including a dark theme for settings and the removal of the “Make a GIF” feature. Gboard 8.5 also reveals upcoming Google Assistant integration to share search results in messages, and emoji to GIF/sticker suggestions.
The latest beta of Google’s keyboard app is rolling out this evening with some minor tweaks and features in progress. Gboard 8.4 reorganizes the “Symbols” emoji category and preps a trending sticker pack section.
Over the past several beta releases, Gboard has been A/B testing a slew of new features. Gboard 8.3 enables many of the server-side changes, including Material Theme settings, trending GIF searches, and others.
Over the past couple of years, Google has built out Gboard to be one of the best keyboard options on Android, and iOS too. Now, Gboard for Android appears to be adding support for a dynamic navigation bar that matches the theme of the keyboard itself.
