Google’s Gboard Keyboard App is now Available for the Android Users

Google’s Keyboard app became available for iOS in May and after months of wait, the company has finally released the Gboard for Android too. Today, that may happen as Google appears ready to rename Google Keyboard to Gboard as it releases version 6.0 to Android. Beyond these apps, you might find it hard to stumble upon another app that supports the feature. Just bring the keyboard up, press that G button and you are golden. Everyone is used by now that whenever they search for an app or game on Google Play Store they will be offered a few suggestions while typing a word in the search bar and this saves everyone a lot of time.

Gboard for Android hasn’t changed much.

According to AndroidPolice, aside from making GIF support widely available to Android devices, the latest Gboard update enables up to three active languages with preference for one. The search option also provides the highly anticipated emoji search. As usual, Google is probably testing user engagement with a limited server-side change, so we may or may not see these search suggestions roll out to more users later. This is nothing similar to the search suggestions that expand from the search bar itself when you start keying in the query, but if you’ve searched an image before, you’ll for sure get acquainted with this feature fast enough.

The Google Play entry for Google Keyboard is yet to be updated as of this writing. You can also head over to the keyboard’s settings and click Search to show the “G” button for quicker access to search. When talking to a friend through Hangouts, for example, users can search the web right from Gboard.

Gboard replaces the old Google Keyboard, so it should eventually be available here on the Play Store. There’s also support for multiple languages in the auto correct system, so bilingual users can mix and match languages and get proper suggestions for both. This update, along with introducing new features to the keyboard, will also rebrand it to Gboard.