Gboard is a great keyboard. I'm iOS too, and I keep it installed alongside my favourite TouchPal, which is even better on Android than it is on iOS (where it seems to have been abandoned but thankfully still works).
Anyway! It's TouchPal's swipable top and bottom rows, getting you numbers and punctuation respectively, that prevent me from switching to Gboard. Apple have also done something similar on their Swift Playgrounds programming keyboard (which I wish they'd bring to iOS outside of that app).
Gboard team, please add shortcuts to other characters through swiping as a power user option!
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In Swiftkey you can use the spacebar while swiping. If you add that feature then you'll have me.
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Missing the emoji prediction and quick language switch I got used to on SwiftKey. But, I like the G Search integration and background image feature available on Gboard aka Google Keyboard for Android.
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I am using it daily on my iPhone. It is a pity that it does not automatically recognizes the language we type to automatically adapt. What do you think ?
I was bouncing between Swift, Google Keyboard (before they re-branded it as Gboard), tried also some other new and old kids on the block, none had a level of customization I needed OR multi-language support (including aforementioned Google Keyboard).
Once Gboard introduced two languages I had hard time choosing between a bit sluggish Swift that had 3-language support and Gboard supporting "only" two languages. Then Google introduced a simultaneous support of 3 languages and it was a no-brainer for me going for Gboard.
Pros:
Typing in 3 different languages at the same time, beautiful design
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I was bouncing between Swift, Google Keyboard (before they re-branded it as Gboard), tried also some other new and old kids on the block, none had a level of customization I needed OR multi-language support (including aforementioned Google Keyboard).
Once Gboard introduced two languages I had hard time choosing between a bit sluggish Swift that had 3-language support and Gboard supporting "only" two languages. Then Google introduced a simultaneous support of 3 languages and it was a no-brainer for me going for Gboard.
Pros:Typing in 3 different languages at the same time, beautiful design
Cons:Google is definitely listening 🤨