With the arrival of foldable devices like the Samsung Galaxy Fold3, the keyboard gboard It had a significant usability problem in devices that were folded like a book, as the large unfolded screen size did not allow for comfortable two-handed writing.
Last March, it was leaked that Google was working on a split keyboard for foldables, a design that has finally started to reach early adopters via Google. Gboard Betathe development version of its popular keyboard.
Split keyboard in Gboard
The lack of this split keyboard mode in Gboard has caused most users of a foldable device to not change the manufacturer’s default keyboard, which has implemented the split keyboard as a Samsung keyboard.
Con Gboard Beta Finally, the split keyboard has arrived for this type of device which, when unfolded, becomes a tablet, which now allows us to write with the thumbs of the hand without having to release the device.
Users who have a foldable device will receive the split keyboard for the next few days or weeks. This new design can be activated from the top toolbar of Gboard, where we will see a split keyboard icon. It can also be activated from the keyboard settings, where it informs that some of the keys can be duplicated as we see in the previous screenshot, where the ‘G’ and ‘V’ keys appear as duplicates.
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