Wow. Best 3rd party keyboard I've used and haven't uninstalled in 10 minutes.
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Google Debuts 'Gboard' Keyboard for iPhone With Built-In Search Functionality
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Man - these key boards are great (WordFlow, GBoard) but Apple is weak from not allowing them to have the voice dictation and 3D Touch cursor...
I agree with you for the multiple languages . I use SwiftKey for that purpose , it's the only keyboard ( As far as I know ..) where you can use just one keyboard to type in two different languages without having to switch .
I would love to do the same !
OTOH , I tried out GBoard and the search function is fantastic .Besides only being able to type in english ,without spellcheck going crazy, I wish the keys were darker .
Nobody else in the world speaks (or types) the bastardised version of English: US English. That's a good thing.
Hello JosephAW. Every device that runs iOS8 can upgrade to iOS9.
If you swipe on the spacebar on GBoard you get the cursor.
Maybe Apple will do something similar to their own keyboards in iOS 10 and eliminate the need for this one.
They might but won't be as good like comparing siri searches vs Google now would be my guess.
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Not available in Australia yet
I feel your pain in Canada. Hopefully we get it soon.
The animated GIF function looks great. Not willing to give up my Word Flow keyboard for it though.
Cursor doesn't go up and down.
[doublepost=1463098233][/doublepost]These keyboards do show that apple is lacking on their end.
They'll need a huge update for their keyboard.
Not saying whether it's fair or not, but EU MP's regularly flip their wigs over Google, so I can understand if they take their time with releasing anything outside of the United States.
Edit: reversed the 'P' and the 'M'. Forgive me, I'm American.
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Since Apple allows third-party keyboard, does it still need to create its own advanced keyboard? Or is it enough that they allow others to fill in? Maybe one day (crosses fingers) Apple will allow us to specify other default apps.
I have one major issue with third party keyboard and that is I haven't found one that is both decent and also allows speech to text. I use speech to text at least 25% of my "typing". Third party keyboard also have a tendency to lag on load up St times and even crash. Gboard had been good for me today so we will see. I ended up uninstalling swift key because, though feature rich, it just wasn't worth the sacrifices of sometimes not having s keyboard show up at all and this having no input method.
My biggest gripe with Gboard thus far is that it's only in English. The predictive text and autocorrect is miles ahead of iOS. But I expected this Asni use Android pretty heavily too.
I guess UK English is counted as a foreign language. Maybe we'll get it next (not that there is any difference in the iOS keyboard between US and UK English, is there? I know physical keyboards have some minor differences in key position [mostly the @ and " symbols]).
Like a poster above mentioned, Apple does not allow dictation on 3rd party keyboards. That alone stops me from using other keyboards.