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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 is a keyboard app which can replace your default android keyboard and increase your typing speed & accuracy by extended functionality modules built into it. Before installing any app you must know how to uninstall & fall back to default settings if it is going to modify android's core.. Read more >>

Accessing Gboard Settings

Gboard settings menu will be regularly used by you for customizing the app based on your requirement. During the Gboard installation the app creates a shortcut in your home screen for easy access to settings, and of-course you can access settings from the App launcher where Gboard icon is available... Read more >>

Gboard Themes

Gboard is one of the popular keyboard apps to support different themes to have unique look & feel of your keyboard layout. During the installation Gboard set the default white background as theme however you can set 18 basic colors as your keyboard background including black, red, purple, green .. Read more >>

Gboard English Language Keyboards & Layouts

Gboard supports English language keyboard for 10 countries including US, UK, Australia, Canada,India, Kenya, Philippines, Nigeria, South Africa, and Trinidadian Creole English. By default English language keyboard is set with QWERTY Layout, however there are more than 6 layouts for English keyb.. Read more >>

Gboard Local Language Keyboards & Layouts

Gboard supports more than 500 non-English languages and similar to English many of the languages are country specific. For example Tamil is a Gboard supported language and Gboard has country specific support like Tamil (India), Tamil (Srilanka), Tamil (Singapore), and Tamil (Latin). In addition to n.. Read more >>

Gboard Typing Modes

Gboard Keyboard supports many typing modes rendered through their layouts configured in app settings. There are five typing modes available in Gboard namely Native typing, Multi-lingual typing, Phonetic typing, Handwriting, and Voice typing. As all the modes are supported in not only English languag.. Read more >>

Gboard Voice Typing

Gboard support voice typing for not only in English but for many local languages. The accuracy and speed of Gboard's ability to covert your text into word in many languages can speed up your android typing tremendously.  Gboard uses online database for voice typing and you need to be connected .. Read more >>

Gboard Glide Typing

Gboard support glide typing which can result in tremendous change in your typing speed. In a conventional android keyboard you need to tap each key one by one to type a word. This can result in touching the wrong key as you need to consciously point & lift your finger on the keys. Glide typing o.. Read more >>

Gboard Gesture Delete & Cursor Controls

Gboard supports gesture controls for editing & deleting your text much easier than conventional methods. In a typical standard keyboard you can delete only one letter each time delete key is pressed and it will be a daunting task if you want to delete many words. Gboard gesture delete allows you.. Read more >>

Gboard Personal Dictionary

Gboard speeds up your typing by using many functions and personal dictionary is one among them. You can add long words to personal dictionary and create a shortcut to it by letter or word. With the shortcut you can quickly type the long words in your typing. Apart from manual addition of words into .. Read more >>

Gboard Integrated Search

By integrating search engine in a keyboard app, Google has made it possible to quickly search & share web content without the need to use any browser. The integrated search in Gboard can show search results and any type of contents can by quickly shared in messaging apps. Now you can search &.. Read more >>

Gboard Integrated Translation

Gboard's integrated language translation function let you type in any language and get it translated to any language on the fly. Now you can chat with anyone in the world in his language. Best part of the integrated search is the user need not to even understand English, as the function automaticall.. Read more >>

Gboard Text Suggestions

Gboard can automatically predict & suggest next word while you type based on many algorithms including grammar, last typed word, information from the contacts and personalized suggestions from your use of Google services. Not only words but Gboard also can suggest emojis for the typed word &.. Read more >>

Gboard Text Corrections

Gboard's text correction let you focus on your content rather than the grammar rules while typing. Gboard correct your text automatically for many common mistakes like capitalizing first letter of a sentence, inserting a space after end of sentence or punctuation marks, typo errors from a spell chec.. Read more >>

Gboard Text Editor

Gboard text editor makes it easy to edit large texts spanning paragraphs. It offers many functions including moving the cursor either vertically or horizontally in both directions, selecting text starting from anywhere to end anywhere in all directions, quickly move the cursor to starting or end of .. Read more >>

Gboard Keyboard Size & Position

Gboard let you customize its position, size, and one handed mode to make it more flexible to use. Ability to change the height of the keyboard is used either for better touch if made bigger and compact view if made smaller. Gboard also let you configure the layout in one handed mode either left or r.. Read more >>

Gboard Symbols Access

Gboard offers various options to access symbols from its layout and you can customize it in the app settings based on your requirement. There are options to make the symbols always available for one tap access and make the keyboard bigger. Else you can make the keyboard looks compact yet access thos.. Read more >>

Gboard ALT, SHIFT & CAPS LOCK

While typical PC keyboard contains separate keys for Shift, ALT & Caps Lock functions, Gboard and perhaps any of the android keyboard apps do not have them due to space constrains. However those functions can be emulated in Gboard using ALT key's tagging in various positions which can result in .. Read more >>

Gboard Key Press Customization

Gboard can provide feedback of your key press in many ways like sound, pop-up & vibration. You can also configure the long press delay time through preferred settings key press heading. Gboard let you customize the type of feed back and level of them through preference settings. If you are typin.. Read more >>