If you’ve ever looked at your
smartphone’s keyboard and thought to yourself, “This is hard,” Google is here
to help. On Monday, June 12, the tech giant announced that
Gboard for Android is getting an upgrade. Not only is
Google continuing in its efforts to
improve typing quality with machine intelligence, it’s also
introducing “
new ways to get creative and cut down text time.”
So what can you expect? First off, in the emoji search box
of Gboard, you can now tap the emoji handwriting icon and sketch out your
version of your favorite emoji — from there, Google will recognize what you
were trying to convey, and return results for your emoji of choice. If nothing
else, it could be a good way to test your artistic skills, and see just how
true to form you can be while drawing on a smartphone.
To help you be more efficient at texting, Gboard also now
features phrase suggestions that can predict what your next line in a text
conversation may be. If, for example, you start typing “looking forward,”
Gboard will suggest that you complete that phrase with “to seeing” or “to it”
as you type. Currently, this functionality is supported only in English, but
Google says that it will be rolling out to more languages in the near future.
We should point out, of course, that Apple users already have this function in
iMessages.
Google has also made improvements to searching in your
keyboard — you’ll now be able to check out multiple results at once. Moreover,
Google notes, “on a card, you can click through to go to Maps, call a business,
or watch a YouTube video. Just press the G or arrow -> magnifying glass in
the suggestion strip to start searching.”
Finally, the latest Gboard update supports 200 languages,
and the company is adding suggestions and gesture typing for Azerbaijani
(Iran), Dhivehi, French (Belgium), Hawaiian, Maori and Samoan, and simple
keyboards. To test all these new features out, head on over to the
Google Play Store and be sure that you’re running
version 6.3 of Gboard.
Full Specifications
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| General |
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| Publisher | Google |
| Publisher web site | http://www.google.com/ |
| Release Date | February 28, 2017 |
| Date Added | February 28, 2017 |
| Version | 6.0.79.14 |
| Operating Systems |
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| Operating Systems | Android |
| Additional Requirements | None |
| Download Information |
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| File Size | 15.3MB |
| File Name | External File |
| Popularity |
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| Total Downloads | 33,386 |
| Downloads Last Week | 733 |
| Pricing |
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| License Model | Free |
| Limitations | Not available |
| Price | Free |
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