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Gboard to get a more uniform-looking Dynamic Color theme

Google’s keyboard app for Android, Gboard, has been offering support for the Dynamic Color theme for quite some time now. It automatically selects a color palette for the keyboard that matches the system theme or wallpaper. That offers a uniform look across the system. Well, except for a few elements. The story continues after the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 month ago

Gboard keyboard now lets you grab text using camera

Google is rolling out a new feature in Gboard for Android called Scan Text with the latest beta version of the app (version 13.9). It allows you to capture an image right from the keyboard and copy text from it. The feature uses an optical character recognition (OCR) tool to offer this functionality, which is […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

Gboard is getting an automatic floating mode for landscape typing

Touchscreen typing is second nature for most smartphone users today, at least when they're using a smartphone in portrait orientation. When you flip a phone to landscape, typing becomes pretty inconvenient as the default landscape layout in most Android keyboard apps stretches from one end of the phone to another. Keyboard apps have various layouts […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Google copies a new feature from Samsung Keyboard

With One UI 5.0, Samsung introduced a way to add text through the camera via Samsung Keyboard. It used the OCR functionality to scan text using the camera. Now, it appears that Google has liked that feature, and it is preparing to bring a similar feature to its own keyboard: Gboard. Gboard could soon get […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Gboard brings AI-powered Proofread feature to fix your grammar mistakes

Google's Gboard is arguably one of the best keyboards on Android. Google has now added a new feature that many might appreciate. The latest beta version of the Gboard app (v13.4) gets the ‘Proofread’ option. Powered by generative AI, it can check the text for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors and fix those issues on […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Gboard to let you easily resize the keyboard on your Galaxy phone

A week ago, Google started rolling out the split keyboard option for Gboard on the Galaxy Tab and other Android tablets. Now, according to a new report, Google is working on a new feature that will let you resize the keyboard on Android smartphones and tablets. Notably, there will be a new ‘Resize' shortcut inside […]

By Sagar Naresh
2 years ago

Gboard split keyboard option now rolling out to Galaxy tablets

Google promised to improve its apps for big-screen devices like foldable phones and tablets with the Android 12L update. Those large-screen optimizations became a part of Android 13 last year. During Google I/O 2023, the company announced that it is improving (or has improved) more than 50 apps for foldables and tablets. Now, the Gboard […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 years ago

Google is bringing Reading Mode and more features to Android phones, tablets

Google has announced a bunch of new features for Android smartphones and tablets. It also unveiled a few features for Wear OS-based smartwatches. All these features will soon come to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. Some of these features include a system-wide Reading Mode, improved Google Cast, sharing Digital Car Keys, new collage styles […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 years ago

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