Two months ago Google replaced the default Android keyboard with Gboard. Once you get used to swiping words, you can enter text even faster than typing individual letters. The keyboards use smart algorithms to guess what word you intended to type – and they get it right a shocking amount of the time. In the above picture, the finger starts on the “m” key, then swipes through “a” and “n” before being lifted at “y.” The result: the word “many” appears in the message. Both of them have an extra feature that the iPhone keyboard does not yet support: instead of typing each letter, you can rest your finger on the first letter of a word, then slide your finger from one letter to another, lifting your finger after the last letter. (Once you have other keyboards installed, switch between them by tapping on the globe icon in the lower left.) The best known alternative mobile keyboards are SwiftKey and Swype.
#NULL GBOARD INSTALL#
They’re quite good now but it’s worth knowing that you can install different third party keyboards and switch between them. Your phone comes with a default keyboard from Apple or Google, of course.
It’s got some new features that the others don’t. Let’s talk about phone keyboards, then take a look at Google’s iPhone keyboard, which raises the bar and makes it perhaps the best iPhone keyboard yet. Sure, your thumbs can dance like hummingbirds over your phone keyboard but there’s an even faster way to type messages.
Have you started swiping instead of typing? Old news for some people, perhaps an eye-opener for others.
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