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Gboard is a enhanced softkeyboard from Google Inc. for Android devices and iPhone which combines advanced typing functions with a search

Main features:

Glide Typing — Type faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter

Voice typing — Easily dictate text on the go

Emoji Search — Find that emoji, faster

GIFs — Search and share GIFs for the perfect reaction. (Available in apps that have implemented image keyboard support)

Multilingual typing — No more switching between languages manually. Gboard will autocorrect and suggest from any of your enabled languages, without the need to tap on the globe key.

Google Translate — Translate as you type in the keyboard

Search and share anything from Google: — Press on "G" to search and share: nearby stores and restaurants, weather forecasts, news articles, sports scores, etc.

Links:

Gboard for Android on Google Play

Gboard for iPhone on iTunes

Gboard on Wikipedia

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Gboard: Enable GIF insertion on EditText

I am using the Gboard from Google in my app and when i input a GIF from the keyboard app to my EditText it then shows a toast "The text field does not support GIF insertion from the keyboard" I have search about this a thousand times and can't find…
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windowSoftInputMode: adjustResize doesn't work properly for numeric keyboard, when keyboard suggests text

When text is copied to clipboard and suggestion is shown, top of keyboard hides the small part of view behind, I think it's a problem of "Gboard", because if EditText inputType is "text" everything works fine, but when it's "number" type, it causes…
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How can I create a sticker pack for Android like I have in iOS for iMessage?

In Xcode (for iOS devices), I can simply click on a button that says "new sticker pack app," and (magic!) there it is, no coding necessary. I just add images to it and upload it to the app store. Super simple! Android now allows for stickers as well…
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Programmatically disable auto-suggestions on Gboard

I'm trying to programmatically disable suggestions with setInputType() using InputType TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS. While this works for most keyboards, this doesn't work when using the "Gboard" keyboard; even with this input type, suggestions…
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Google Keyboard clipboard does not trigger a paste event

I'm using a multi input component for capturing MFA codes. Think six identical boxes and as you type - it moves to the next one with an auto submit on completion. We handle paste logic uniquely by filling in the code one at a time from the…
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How to enable gboard gif insertion/upload on webpages

Google's Android keyboard GBoard allows insertion of gifs in some apps, e.g. Hangouts. I would like to enable this functionality on a website as well. How do I communicate to Google Chrome, and then to the GBoard, that this gif upload is enabled on…
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Chrome doesn't support image insertion here

I've seen similar questions asked regarding Flutter and other applications, but to give some context, Google's Gboard just changed the way GIFs and emojis insert into the application, but it's unclear how to support it now. The error above appears…
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Google Keyboard - insert image "send" intent weirdness

I'm investigating adding Gboard image support into our app. I have three specific questions / issues below. Have seen the official docs at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/image-keyboard.html There is something weird going on…
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Creating custom popup keyboard for alternative keys

I'm trying to create a custom popup keyboard for alternative keys in android. By using the default keyboard only customization I can do is to provide a custom layout for pop keyboard. I need customize the behaviour as well (Like the one in the…
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Facing issues with Draft JS in android browsers

We are using draftJS for creating a rich text post/comment with user mention(draft-js-mention-plugin), and hashtag(draft-js-hashtag-plugin) functionality. Following is the code sample.
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Android not sending proper keyCode on text input

I want to capture the keydown-event for a specific key (<) for all elements in a website. On Windows and iOS this is not a problem and everything is working fine. On Android (OnePlus 6, Android 10, Chrome 81, Gboard-Keyboard) however I couldnt…
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How does Chrome hide "GIF" button from Gboard on its search view?

I am looking for an elegant solution to block gif/emoji input from Gboard on Android. Since I use androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView, there is no trivial way of leveraging onCreateInputConnection to create a custom AppCompatEditText. However I…
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Show GBoard number pad as default in android with option to switch to alphabetic keyboard in bottom left

I am trying to set the google keyboard number keypad as default but so far no luck. Below is the image where number pad also has an option to switch to ABC Keypad. Normally, when we want only characters or number then in inputType of editText we can…
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Firebase App Indexing and Gboard sticker packs: hasSticker vs isPartOf vs partOf

In this Firebase App Indexing sample code for stickers and sticker packs there seem to be two different methods to associate a "Sticker" with a "StickerPack". In method 1, you create a StickerPack and then associate the stickers with it by calling…
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Stickers Packs outside GBoard

Now that Android has the option to release stickers packs to the Play Store, I want to know if there is any way to detect (and use) the packs installed in the device. Right know, from GBoard, you can see, use and install new stickers packs…
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