With the many things Android can do, it has Google behind its back.
Gboard is already one of the best and smartest ways to communicate on a phone, given that it is Google's and linked to its Search feature. The app practically leverages the company's artificial intelligence for text prediction and natural language processing.
In June 12th, 2017, the keyboard app from Google is having a few updates to make conversation smarter, faster and also more fun.
The first feature Gboard is introducing, and also the most notable, is the feature that allows users to draw emoji. With it, users can scribble down an emoji, and Google will recognize the drawing and offer up some suggestions.
While users can certainly browse for the available emoji on the keyboard app anytime they want, but the feature can come in handy. What's more, it can also be fun because users need to draw something to make Google come up with something.
Google demonstrated the feature using the classic 'blob' emoji, the design that the company is ditching due to their inferior design.
The next feature to Gboard makes it able to predict an entire phrase instead of just the next word.
For example, users can type "what do" and Gboard will suggest "you think."
While users may see themselves difficult in using the feature since it's not at all the same as Google Search's autocomplete feature, but Gboard's text prediction can be useful for slow typists. Or those that are typing using one hand.
The next is the update that allows Google to show multiple results when users initiate a web search via the Gboard keyboard app. This should make it easier for users to find and share things. The update also makes it easier to link out to other apps like Google Maps and YouTube when appropriate.
Google is also adding support for more languages. Users can get suggestions and gesture typing for Azerbaijani (Iran), Dhivehi, French (Belgium), Hawaiian, Maori, and Samoan. Languages that are added in the update include Dzongkha, Ewe, Navajo, Tsonga, and K'iche'.
The updates are available for Android Gboard users, starting version 6.3 of the app.