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Gboard on Android gets big update, improvements for most features


Gboard for Android is getting a pretty nice update this week. There are improvements across most of the app — emoji and GIF suggestions while you type, better voice typing, even more background themes, and even Google Translate access. On a smaller note, emoji, web, and GIF search can be used in right-to-left languages.


New features:

Gboard also has emoji search to help you find emojis faster, plus GIF search, and multilingual typing to let you switch languages on the fly.Press and hold Enter to choose from hundreds of emoji in any app (Android 4.4+).


 While you’re pecking away at the keyboard, emoji and GIF suggestions will now show up in the keyboard suggestion area. GIFs will work in supported apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Hangouts and Allo.


 One of the cool features of this upgrade is Google Translate integration. You can tap the G button, then the Translate button to launch the translate function. Right from the keyboard, you can type in English and have your words show up in whatever language you want — right in the message or comment field, ready to send.


One of the nice features of Gboard is themes.You can chose different theme by heading over to the language and input setting option your phone and locate Gboard setting to apply different colors and themes to the background of your keyboard.


 Another features Google added is the most responsive voice typing and switching to voice interface is easy now.


 Pro tips: 

 • Press and hold Enter to choose from hundreds of emoji in any app (Android 4.4+).
• Learns as you type: No need to manually add words to a personal dictionary. Type a word once and you can gesture type it or find it in suggestions next time. Long press a suggestion to remove it from your “learned words” or the keyboard dictionary.
• Sync your learned words across devices to improve suggestions (enable in Gboard Settings→ Dictionary → Sync learned words).
• Gesture cursor control: Slide your finger across the space bar to move the cursor.
• Gesture delete: Slide left from the delete key to quickly delete multiple words.
• Make the number row available all the time (enable in Settings → Preferences → Number Row)
• Symbols hints: Show quick hints on your keys to access symbols with a long press (enable in Gboard Settings → Preferences → Long press for symbols).
• One handed mode: On large screen phones, pin keyboard to the left or the right of the screen by long pressing on Enter and selecting the thumb icon.
• Fast symbols: Gesture from the “?123” key to temporarily switch to the symbols keyboard and insert a symbol.
• Fast capitalization: Gesture from the SHIFT key to a character to capitalize it.
• Themes: Choose a theme with or without key borders to suit your style.

 To test drive these updates to Gboard for Android yourself, head to the Google Play Store and make sure you’re running the latest version of the app. 
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