Hey there,
I’m Alan, a PM for Gboard and we’re super excited to bring you this new update! Starting today, Google Keyboard has become Gboard.
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. 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.
Try it out and let us know what you think!
@alanmni Alan, I've noticed on my Moto X that the keyboard takes a really long time to initialize, meaning that no predictions or auto-corrects appear for the first few minutes after the phone has booted. I'm also finding the swipe typing to be a lot less accurate than it was before this recent update. Do you have any insight into what's happening?
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@alanmni Hi Alen,
Ihave been using Gboard on IOS for months now (since the launch). This is the only keyboard I have manage to use it is so fantastic! You really did a great job!
I was wondering when will you release an Hebrew support for the Gboard! I'm willing to help 😉
@alanmni still does not support Persian. I stick with Swiftly for now
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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 ?
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Awesome update. Only thing that is odd is by default long press on a letter doesn't bring up symbols, you have to enable it in the settings.
I'm legitimately surprised that this came to iOS before Android, seeing as how it's from Google... but glad to finally get to try this out!
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It's a phenomenal and fun keyboard to use on iOS so Android users should be psyched and try it out. Curious why it was released so long after the iOS version though...strange.
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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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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