Gboard - The Google Keyboard

  • Gboard - The Google Keyboard

Gboard is a keyboard app developed by Google, which extends the functionality of your Android & iOS devices by many folds. Gboard let you type faster & accurately with its intelligent word prediction, multitude of text correction algorithms, and glide & gesture control support. With support for more than 400+ languages & multiple writing modes makes it the most popular keyboard app for multilingual typing. Google's integration of its search & translation web applications into Gboard makes it easier to chat with anyone in the world & share any type of search result contents without switching between multiple apps. Customization of themes, keyboard size & key press feedback give unique look & feel to your mobile keyboard layout.

Top 20 functions to replace android's native keyboard with Gboard

  1. Settings: Access the app settings with single tap right from the keyboard layout.
  2. Themes: Create custom themes easily with any image in addition to inbuilt colors & landscapes.
  3. Layouts: Create, modify, delete & quickly switch between English & 400 + local language keyboard layouts.
  4. Typing Modes: Easily type in native, handwriting & phonetic modes in English & non-English languages.
  5. Emojis & GIFs: Search & access emojis, GIFS & Stickers in all languages. 
  6. Voice Typing: Dictate with your voice for rapid typing in English & all languages.
  7. Glide typing: Slide your fingers between letters for fast typing.
  8. Gesture control: Slide on space bar key to move the cursor & erase blocks of words than letters. 
  9. Dictionary: Create words or phrases containing up to 40 characters and get them typed with single tap.
  10. Search: Search & share any type of content like images, snippets, links without switching between apps.
  11. Translation: Translate words on the fly while typing from any language to any language.
  12. Text suggestions: AI word suggestions from previous word & dictionary of past typed words.
  13. Emoji suggestions: Automatic prediction of emojis, GIFs, and stickers while typing.
  14. Text corrections: Automated text corrections for spelling, grammatical errors.
  15. Text Editor: Move cursor vertically & horizontally to copy, paste & delete large blocks of words.
  16. Keyboard Size: Change height & width of keyboard and even make it to float anywhere in the screen.
  17. Compact layout: Display or hide symbols & numerical keys in the layout & access them with long press.
  18. ALT Key:  Tap for SHIFT & CAPS lock functions to type small & capital alphabets, numbers & symbols.
  19. Long Press: Quickly access all hinted symbols by long pressing alphabet keys.
  20. Key press: Customize feedback of key press by sound, pop-up, and vibration.

Gboard Installation & Uninstallation

Gboard can be installed from Google Play store, a little bulky 25MB APK but occupies about 120 MB of internal storage on live usage. Installing Gboard is straight forward and needs little inputs from the user like choosing preferred language & enablin Read more >>

Accessing Gboard Settings

If you are going to use Gboard as your live keyboard, Gboard settings would be the frequently accessed menu for customizing your keyboard. You can access Gboard settings in four ways like through the App launcher, shortcut icon in home screen, G search d Read more >>

Gboard Themes

Gboard has in-built themes of basic colors and landscape images which can be changed quickly with couple of taps. You can also create custom themes like keeping your photographs as keyboard background. Key borders around each key can be made visible or hi Read more >>

Gboard English Language Keyboards & Layouts

Gboard can be customized for English language for more than 10 countries including US, UK, Australia, Canada and India. Apart from conventional QWERTY layout, it can be customized with 6 key layouts like QWERTZ, AZERTY, DVORAK, COLEMAK and typical PC Keyb Read more >>

Gboard Local Language Keyboards & Layouts

With support for more than hundreds of languages and multilingual typing, Gboard can be used for typing in your local language in native writing with the combination of vowels and consonants in the layout. Apart from native writing layout, Local language Read more >>

Gboard Typing Modes

Gboard supports four writing modes including native writing, phonetic writing, handwriting and voice typing and what is surprising is the accuracy of them in non-English languages. Phonetic writing is useful for converting English alphabets to respective Read more >>

Gboard Voice Typing

Gboard supports voice typing and best part of it is not only it converts your dictated words in English but any local language. You can download language packs for selective languages to your phone which not only speedup your dictation but let you type ev Read more >>

Gboard Glide Typing

Glide typing supported by Gboard makes typing & editing text much faster. Often you will end up tapping the wrong key while typing, with support for Glide typing Gboard let you slide your fingers between the keys and the letters get converted to text Read more >>

Gboard Gesture Delete & Cursor Controls

Gesture controls let you ease your text correction and cursor placement on the text you want to edit. Just slide left your fingers from erase key and blocks of words can be selected instead of letters for erasing. Even if you make mistake of selecting wro Read more >>

Gboard Personal Dictionary

Gboard predicts and suggests words while you type from data stored in a personal dictionary based on the words typed by you in the past. While the database is stored in your internal phone storage and continue to grow as the words learned by Gboard keep o Read more >>

Gboard Integrated Search

Google integrated the web search functions in Gboard and eliminated the need to switch between browser and texting app to share data collected from web searches. It also avoids lot of unwanted copy & paste activities and makes it possible to share any Read more >>

Gboard Integrated Translation

Similar to integrating web search, Google has integrated their language translation function in Gboard. Now it is possible for two persons to chat without understanding a common language. You can easily set typing language and the translation language. Gb Read more >>

Gboard Text Suggestions

Gboard can predict & suggest words on the fly while you type and it can be customized to suit your style of typing. Suggestion is not just limited to words but even emojis and stickers based on the sentence you typed. You can customize Gboard to avail Read more >>

Gboard Text Corrections

Gboard can be set to correct your typed text on the fly based on the dictionary and many other algorithms developed by Google. Gboard not only automatically correct your word for spelling mistakes but handles the starting & beginning of sentences by a Read more >>

Gboard Text Editor

Gboard's text editor let you edit large text of data with ease. Text editing mode contains arrow & scrolling keys with cut, copy, paste and erase buttons to edit large blocks of data. With the presence of four arrow keys you can move the cursor in any Read more >>

Gboard Keyboard Size & Position

Gboard let you change the height of the keyboard layout and its position on the screen can be made to float. Height of the keyboard can be changed to suit your need which is an useful utility for senior citizens who find it difficult to touch the key in a Read more >>

Gboard Symbols Access

Gboard let you customize to display or hide symbols in the keyboard layout. Symbols are rarely used while typing conversation text and your keyboard layout can be made to look lite without symbols. Still you can access the symbols by long pressing related Read more >>

Gboard ALT, SHIFT & CAPS LOCK

Unlike PC keyboard Gboard or any android keyboard does not have SHIFT & CAPS LOCK keys in the layout. However tagging ALT key can change its function as SHIFT & CAPS LOCK keys. While single tap of ALT key changes to SHIFT KEY, double tap of ALT ke Read more >>

Gboard Key Press Customization

Gboard key press can be customized to provide feedback in the form of visual popup, vibration and sound. Depends on your level of comfort you can also the change the volume of key press sound (From 0 to 100%) & strength of vibration (from 0 to 100 ms) Read more >>

Gboard - The Google Keyboard