In its latest beta, Gboard includes a small feature that makes all the difference when using your smartphone horizontally. In fact, it is possible to switch the keyboard to floating mode, allowing you to place it wherever you want on the screen and adjust its size. In other words, the latter will stop occupying too large a part of the interface.
Google intends to make Gboard the best keyboard on Android and for this, the firm regularly integrates new features to make its users addicted. Most aim to save time, such as the possibility of canceling errors in one click, others to improve your writing, such as the AI assistant which rereads your text and corrects mistakes. And, sometimes, it is simply a matter of improving user comfort.
In its latest beta, Google is tackling a major problem – it’s fair to say – with its keyboard. When you turn your smartphone horizontally, you certainly gain speed by typing with both hands, but you greatly lose the readability of the screen. Indeed, Gboard has the unfortunate tendency to occupy a good part of the space, which prevents you from seeing anything other than what you write, even on smartphones with large screens.
Google offers an elegant solution to a big Gboard problem
In its latest beta, Gboard has added a new feature: floating mode. Connoisseurs will not be mistaken. The latter is certainly already available, but it requires going through various menus to activate it. Now, all you have to do is turn your smartphone horizontally for floating mode to activate automatically.
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From then on, it is possible to place it wherever you want on the screen, as well as adjust its size. This therefore allows it to take up much less space, and above all to move it as desired depending on what you want to see on the screen. Note that Gboard will remember its last position and will automatically replace itself during the next session.
Source: AndroidPolice