Gboards

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Gboard, Google's keyboard app for smartphones, is getting a helpful update. Now, you can easily insert text using your phone's camera. The new feature, called "Scan Text," uses technology to recognise text from images and input it into your text field. This feature is also available on iPhones running iOS 15.4 or newer. …

Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen feature now works on Slack for Android. The feature lets you create fun emoji combinations using the Google keyboard app. Slack joins several other popular messaging apps to support Emoji Kitchen, including Google Messages, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram.If you’re unfamiliar with the feature, it’s nothing huge to stress about. When composing a message using Gboard on any supported app on Android devices, you can combine two compatible emojis to get unique mashups. You have to simply select the…

Google’s Gboard keyboard app for Android is throwing a bone to people who use foldable phones (or at least, for now, to beta users of the app) with a split keyboard mode. Its aim is to make it less awkward and a little more ergonomic to type on the large, expanded screens of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 or a Microsoft Surface Duo 2. The split keyboard mode cuts the keyboard in half, putting all of the keys near the two sides of the foldable phone, much closer to where your thumbs may be naturally resting while you hold…

When it comes to Gboard features, this has probably been the most requested one. Gboard users have been requesting a split keyboard for a long time now, and the main reason is… foldable phones.Gboard’s split keyboard starts appearing for foldable phone usersThe split keyboard is finally popping up for foldable phone users, after first being spotted way back in March. Do note that it seems to be popping up for users of the Gboard beta app, though.This info has been revealed on the GalaxyFold subreddit, as some of them are…

A few weeks ago, Google started testing the split keyboard mode in the Gboard app. It was available to a few beta users, but the feature is now rolling out more widely. However, it is still available in the beta version (v11.9.04) of the keyboard app. Google has already taken a lot of time to optimize its keyboard app for foldable smartphones. It has been more than three years since first-generation foldable phones were launched. And most Galaxy Z Fold series users were limited to Samsung Keyboard if they wanted to use…

Google is expanding its custom text stickers to Android users who use the US-English version of its Gboard keyboard. Previously, only Google Pixel users had access to the feature, which lets you create and send personalized stickers by typing in your own text and choosing a premade design. In addition to expanding custom stickers, Google is also introducing over 1,600 new Pride Month and summer-themed mashups to Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen. You can use the feature by simply typing in an emoji (or two) into a message, and…

Last updated: May 26th, 2022 at 10:59 UTC+02:00 Typing on foldable phones is easier, thanks to the bigger screen. However, it requires a split mode for better ergonomics, and it was only available on the Samsung Keyboard app. However, not everyone prefers Samsung Keyboard over Google’s Gboard app. A few days ago, we reported that even Google is working to bring the split keyboard mode to its keyboard. Now, that feature seems to be live. Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Z Fold 2, and Galaxy Z Fold 3 users who have installed the…