Type from a touchscreen remains a big challenge for many people, because it is not so easy to write from the virtual keyboard of our mobile, especially if we want to write quickly, this is when we can make the most mistakes by pressing the small keys on your keyboard. Fortunately, during all this time, touchscreen keyboards have continued to improve to help us write fast.
In this article, we will go over the features of gboard it will help us write faster from the Google keyboard, which is standard on many Android devices and can be downloaded from the Play Store on phones that do not have it.
Write with just a swipe
swipe to type It’s a feature that Swype didn’t make popular more than 10 years ago and that the rest of the keyboards were quick to copy. For many users, this is the fastest and easiest way to type from the touchscreen, as they only have to slide their finger over the keys and the keyboard will know which word they want to write.
Swipe to enter a number or symbol
Using the swipe input feature, we can quickly type a number or symbol and instantly return to the alphabetic keyboard. For this we only have to drag from button ‘?123’ to the desired number or symbol. The moment we slide from this button, the keyboard automatically displays numbers and symbols and once we release the finger, we return to the alphabetic keyboard to continue writing letters.
Clear keywords
Gboard hides several gestures, and one of them allows us to delete one or more words at a time. For this we only have to swipe left from delete buttonthen right in cursor mode, to select the words we want to delete when we release the finger.
Use your cursor by gestures
If we made a mistake in the middle of a word, we can use the cursor that hides the space bar. By dragging your finger horizontally from the spacebar we can move the cursor.
Enable and configure autocorrect
Autocorrect can help us write faster, since your auto correction can correct those words that we wrote more hastily. In the Gboard settings, in the section of spell checker we can make sure that autocorrect is enabled. In addition, it is recommended to activate the option ‘Cancel autocorrect’ to recover the original text by pressing the backspace key in case the autocorrect has changed a word that we have written correctly by mistake.
Configure your suggestions
In the autocorrect settings we also find the configuration of the suggestions. This allows us to have the keyboard show us in the upper band the possible words that we might want to write.
Press a double space to insert a period
Continuing in the autocorrect settings, we find an option that allows you to type a period by pressing a double space. In other words, hitting the space key twice will put us a dot and a space.
Create your abbreviations
Another way that allows us to write Gboard faster is to use its abbreviations. From the settings of Dictionary > Personal dictionary > Spanish we can add sentences with their abbreviations so that when entering its abbreviation, the keyboard shows us in its suggestion strip the complete sentence to be inserted simply by touching it.
Save the texts you use the most to the clipboard
If we find that we have to write certain texts very often, such as email, phone, ID or address, we can copy this text and pin it to clipboard so that these text strings are always available in the clipboard.
Add the row of numbers
If we write a lot of letters with numbers and we do not want to alternate between the keyboard of letters and symbols, we can activate from the keyboard preferences the row of numbers why always display a row of numbers.
Use voice typing
Finally, if a person hesitates to write from the touch screen, their alternative is to use the voice input. Here we only have to dictate the text and say out loud the signs “comma”, “period”, “question” or “exclamation”. For example, we must dictate “Hello comma how are you interrogation” to write “Hello, how are you?”.
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