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Gboard by Google — Google Search, GIFs, emojis & more—right from your keyboard
Gboard a new keyboard from Google for your iPhone. It has all the things you would expect from a great keyboard — GIFs, emojis, and Glide Typing — plus Google Search built in.
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@cherianthomas recorded myself doing this in QuickTime by connecting the iPhone to Mac. Then when I had the video I made a GIF of that part of the screen :)
Looks really nice! Thanks @bricon5.
Out of interest, why is it that a lot of keyboard apps (Microsoft Word Flow) and now Gboard are US only?
@jbrooksuk It really comes down to the fact that keyboard layouts/dictionaries take a while to get right - we're still working on improving the quality of our other languages.
@bricon5 @jbrooksuk What about Canada? I imagine the layout/dictionaries would be the same as the US.
@andrew_palmer @jbrooksuk We found that there were enough noticeable differences in spelling/use of words, and we didn't want to offer a subpar experience to our Canadian brothers and sisters.
@bricon5 This is interesting. Will multi-language be able to automatically recognize the language I'm typing in (the way SwiftKey does it) or will I need to manually switch between languages?
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This is the only iOS keyboard I've ever installed that didn't crash the first (and every subsequent) time I used it. Customer for life!
Hey PH,
Bri from the Gboard team here. Gboard is a new iOS keyboard from Google that lets you search and send search results, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. We also added Glide Typing (aka gesture typing) so you can type even faster. Check it out at goo.gl/gboard. It’s US only for now, but we have a global update coming shortly.
A couple of pro tips:
- We have emoji autocorrect. Try typing “pizza”.
- You can move the cursor by dragging your finger across the space bar.
- When you tap a search result card the text is added to your message, but you can send an image of the card by pasting into the messaging space.
- We’re trying out this new predictive search feature. Try texting a friend, “want to get a drink tonight” to see it in action.
🙏 We’d love get some feedback and I’m happy to answer questions!
@jordyvangent Glad to hear it. More languages/countries are coming soon!
@bricon5 @jordyvangent Would love an option for metric/celsius 😊 Keyboard is nearly perfect otherwise!
@yashendra2797 @jordyvangent It's coming with our multi lingual release!
@bricon5 Bri, tell the team that I just ran around my office showing it to everyone and they love it! GREAT WORK! :)
@bricon5 This looks awesome Bri, loving the direction very keen to see how this evolves. Congrats team ( cough have any Gboard tshirts lying around? )
What's missing from this and all keyboards is dictation.
Does Apple allow 3rd party keyboards to add dictation?
As a mobile dev, Keyboard flexibility would be really good on Android. Like pasting images directly in the field.
Unfortunately it's not in the Swiss appstore as well... @bricon5 does the keyboard also have the option for 3d touch touchpad? I really love this feature on my 6s.
@jonas_petermann We don't have 3d touch, but if you drag your finger across the space bar you can move the cursor in a similar way.
Thank you @bricon5, this is nice, but 3d touch cursor movement would work much better (especially for multi-line text).
@syswarren I feel bad for people hunting for the right emoji. I've been using @davidkmckinney's Emoji Type for over a year, although it hasn't been updated to include the newer emojis
@rrhoover @syswarren @davidkmckinney Gboard should have all the newest emojis. If we're missing one, let me know and we'll add it.
@rrhoover @syswarren @bricon5 ha! thanks for the shout out Ryan. Gboard is *really* good. Great execution… re: Emoji Type, that was acquired last year, and no longer available 🙊. I like Gboard a lot — super fun combo of features and functionality 😃
Great product! @bricon5! I just tried to text a friend "want to grab a drink tonight" and nothing happened..?
i don t understand why Google did not embed the keyboard in the same Google search app which is already very popular
Few things to consider adding:
- Force touch compatibility
- Voice search!!!
- Dark theme or translucent theme
- Multilingual typing such as Hindi
Great job! Loving the iOS release! Easy to show off to android friends am I right?
This is the first great keyboard I've installed. Ten times more productive than the normal keyboard, but still looks visually like it belongs in iOS. Fantastic work.
@bricon5 any possibility of being able to set a default site selector for GIF searches (for example, site:giphy.com)? I love the keyboard, but I'd really rather not have to trudge through all the trashy tumblr gifs that come up in results...
@thejohnnyhill Please report bad gifs/sites to the feedback link in the Gboard main app! We read everything and it helps us with quality.
Awesome keyboard, initial impressions are great. Very fluid like the native iOS keyboard. Good job guys!
I would pay anything to get a keyboard that has the features of this, and the autocorrect brilliantness of Fleksy. I have tried so many amazing keyboards, but I always end up switching to Fleksy because typing in it is insanely fast. I love Gboard's features, but developers need to understand something. Predictive text is slow as hell. An swiping is slower than pecking on the keyboard. Better to have an autocorrect so good, that you don't need to even look down at the screen, a la Fleksy.
@yashendra2797 I disagree, I can fly much faster with swyping than I can pecking. Swype revolutionized how I used my phone, and since that sucks on iPhone Gboard is a game changer for me
Love the app! @bricon5 , once I select a gif can it directly paste it in my message instead of selecting the text box and tapping "paste"?
Also, I've allowed "full access" to the app. Is there any way to prevent the app from reading/logging my passwords when I type them? Should I have to switch to the default keyboard to prevent that from happening?
@sornakumar We don't log anything you type! Our privacy policy is in our App Store description:
"What Gboard sends to Google:
• When you do a search, Gboard sends your query to Google’s web servers so Google can process your query and send you search results.
• Gboard also sends anonymous statistics to Google to help us diagnose problems when the app crashes and to let us know which features are used most often.
What Gboard doesn’t send to Google:
• Everything else. Gboard will remember words you type to help you with spelling or to predict searches you might be interested in, but this data is stored only on your device. This data is not accessible by Google or by any apps other than Gboard."
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