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While smartphone users enjoy the latest technology their handheld gadgets can do, one source of frustration has been the touchscreen keyboard. Both Apple and Google have been working to minimize those autocorrect mishaps while also upgrading keyboards to do so much more.
Last year, Google released the Gboard, an app that integrates Google’s search features with your phone’s keyboard. This included a Google button that allowed mobile users to search for anything on their keyboard and send them in a message.
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Since then, it has rolled out the Gboard for Android. Its latest updates now step up common keyboard features, which include emojis and word suggestions.
Because scrolling for your favorite emoji apparently takes too much time, the tech giant now lets you draw it:
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Based on a rough sketch, the app will draw up related emoji results. This is based on technology also found in their artificial intelligence tool AutoDraw, dubbed “a drawing tool for the rest of us”—because to be honest, some of us have never learned to go beyond drawing a stick figure.
AutoDraw is a “drawing tool for the rest of us.” Image: Google
Your keyboard will also be two steps ahead of you with phrase suggestions. As you type, it will include words that could capture what you’re trying to say:
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To get these nifty features, the Gboard can be downloaded from the Google Play Store at version 6.3. JB
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