Google improves the horizontal screen experience of Gboard input method: calling floating keyboard by default and memorizing historical location layout.

CTOnews.com, Nov. 14 (Xinhua)-- Google's Gboard input method has introduced a separate keyboard mode for folding screen devices since June last year, which splits the keyboard into two halves when typing on a folding screen phone so that users can enter content on a larger screen.

Androidcentral, a foreign media source for ▲, but at present, Gboard still has a poor experience in large-screen devices and mobile phone landscape mode, and Google is working to improve this. In the latest Gboard input method beta version of the Android platform (v13.6.06.574113912), Google introduced a "horizontal screen automatically switch floating layout keyboard" function to improve the horizontal interactive experience of all devices.

It is reported that when the phone enters landscape mode, Gboard will automatically switch to a floating keyboard layout, and users can move the keyboard position and adjust the keyboard size according to their preferences.

The foreign media androidcentralCTOnews.com of the ▲ image source also noticed that the input method records the floating keyboard position placed by the user last time, so the user does not have to manually adjust the input method position every time the horizontal screen is switched.

This feature is currently available to all Gboard Beta testers. Therefore, it is expected to be integrated into a stable build in the near future, so that all users can provide a more convenient horizontal interactive experience of Gboard input method.