5 Tricks for the Google Keyboard App

An application that we use on a daily basis and from which, generally, we don't get the most out of it that we should. This is usually the case with the keyboard of our Android phone, a system application that we take for granted. However, few are those who spend time paying attention to their settings. For example, we can change the background of the keyboard, or put more than one language for the correction of words. Even recently Google already allowed writing by sliding your finger.We no longer needed to pay or download a third-party app. And while it is true that keyboard apps like Swype or Swiftkey are quite complete, it is equally true that Gboard gives us everything we need. And it's free.

To download Gboard, Google's keyboard application for free, just go to this link in the Play Store application store. It usually happens that you already have it installed by default, especially if your terminal is pure Android. In the event that you do not have it, simply download and install it. Once you've done that, come back to this article, here are 5 Google Keyboard App Tricks You Should Know About.

How to set Google Gboard keyboard languages

Generally, we think that a single language is enough to be able to communicate with other people with a mobile phone. That, until we have to write the title of a song or a movie in English.Sometimes writing 'The' can be an impossible mission and you end up confusing the J with the H and end up writing 'TJE'. So that this does not happen, it is convenient to have two languages ​​at the same time on the keyboard This is done in a very simple way. Simply follow the steps described below.

Enter phone settings. Then, go to 'System' and 'Languages ​​and text input'. Make sure you have Gboard enabled as your primary keyboard. To do this, go to 'Keyboard and input methods' and then 'Virtual keyboard'. Here you will see 'Manage keyboards', a list of keyboards that you have installed on your phone. Choose Gboard. By pressing, you will enter its settings menu.

The first of the settings refers to the keyboard writing languages. Go into this configuration and disable 'Use system languages'.Now, in 'Active input methods' choose the languages ​​you want to have on your keyboard From now on, the keyboard will also complete and suggest words in the languages ​​you have entered.

How to change the appearance of the Google keyboard

If you don't want to have a boring and ordinary keyboard like the rest, Google gives you the option to customize its background to your liking. Here you can choose between several colors, some beautiful photos of landscapes or customized according to your own original design To modify the Google keyboard you just have to do the following:

Go back into the virtual keyboard settings, choose Gboard and select 'Theme'. Here you can see the different classified themes: colors, landscapes and own. Among the colors, you can choose white, black, blue and light blue, light and dark green, purple , Hot Pink…

Regarding the landscapes, you must download them before generating the preview. Simply click on the arrow button on the photo that catches your eye and, by selecting it, you will be able to see how it looks. In 'Custom' you can upload the photo you want, adapt the image to the keyboard format and you already have your own original keyboard.

How to select voice typing on the Google keyboard

If while you're typing, you suddenly need to better to dictate something by voice to the keyboard, we'll tell you a very useful shortcut to which you can access , directly, from the same keyboard. No need to go into settings. To do this, we are going to go to the Google Gboard keyboard before typing something, for example, in the Chrome browser.

We look at the world ball icon that we have next to the bar key and the space key. We leave it pressed for a short period of time. We will see how a pop-up window appears, in which we can activate, if we want, the voice typing of the Google keyboard. When activated, the keyboard disappears, with a microphone icon appearing. Speak, and then everything will be written in the search bar. Too bad there is no direct search key next to the microphone, and we have to close the window to find what we have dictated.

Enable 'Swype' on Google Keyboard

Before wanting to enable the 'Swype' method, we are going to tell you what it consists of. The swype method is a way of writing that consists of holding your finger from the keyboard and making a gesture with it, going through all the letters that make up the word.It is very simple. If we want to write 'House', we will put our finger on the 'C', and then we will take our finger, without lifting them, through the 'A', the 'S', ending in the 'A'. A very easy and fast method, although it costs a bit at first.

To activate the 'Swype' method on the Google keyboard, just do the following:

Enter the keyboard settings as indicated above. Now, look for 'Writing by sliding your finger' On this screen is everything corresponding to the configuration of this original way of writing. We can enable writing, show or not the gesture path, we can delete words with a gesture and even slide the cursor, also by gestures.

How to search the Internet from the Google keyboard

If while you are having a conversation, let's say on WhatsApp, a term appears that you don't know, you can search for it directly on the Google keyboard itself.When you open the keyboard, look at the G icon that appears in the bar, next to the words that the keyboard is predicting. Here you can do the searches you want, from GIF (adding GIF to the term) or any YouTube video.