A Google keyboard application "Gboard" that can also search Google & search gestures and GIFs on any iPhone application

Google has "gesture input" and "GIF search" functions for iPhoneDeveloping keyboard applicationIn addition to gesture input, GIF search, pictogram search, a keyboard application that can use Google search without switching applicationsGboard"Has been released.

Official Google Blog: Meet Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis & amp; more. Right from your keyboard.
https://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2016/05/gboard-search-gifs-emojis-keyboard.html

A movie that shows what type of keyboard application Gboard is available has been released.

Meet Gboard - YouTube


For example, if you make a promise to go to rice with friends using the message application.


To find the address of the shop ......


Switch to a different application such as a browser and search the name of the restaurant.


However, it takes time to select only the necessary parts from the search results.


I managed to copy my address.


Go back to the message application, paste the address ... ...


Finally sent.


Every time you search and send the necessary information, you have to repeat the action of switching applications and copying and pasting characters many times.


What if we could retrieve information directly from the keyboard?


That was born "Gboard" is.


To use Gboard while using the message application, tap the G mark displayed next to the text entry field.


Then a search box appears at the bottom of the entry field.


Enter the name of the restaurant you want to search.


Then, the keyboard just under the entry field hides and the card-like search result is displayed instead, so when tapping ... ...


You can send the search contents in one shot.


Links with images can also be sent.


In this way, using Gboard makes it easy to use Google search without switching applications ... ...


It functions in all kinds of applications such as mail application and message application.


Google seems to be embedded in each application.


Because Google search and keyboard are together ......


The name is "Gboard".


Gboard also supports "gesture input (glide typing)" that allows you to enter characters faster. Just by sliding your finger on the keyboard without releasing your finger from the screen ......


Character input is possible.


You can also search for pictographs, for example enter "Dancer" to display dancers' pictograms.


Search YouTube videos ......


Search flight information of airplane.


Looking for GIF images from the "GIF" tab ... ...


You can post directly as a message.


Gboard already in the US already in the App StorePublishedSo, other language compatible versions such as Japanese are scheduled to be distributed sequentially.