gboardGoogle Keyboard for Android, will soon see the news that lovers of emoticons … and hieroglyphs will love, and that emoticons, emoticons, or whatever they call them, are our daily bread in chat conversations that have been going on for years and are still More and more, so it is no wonder that they are working to make them easier to use so that everything runs as well as possible.

It’s not that using emoji is complicated, but switching between a regular keyboard and an emoji keyboard, even if the thing is automated enough, is a bit of a nuisance … that this new Gboard news doesn’t address, but that it can help relax a bit. . However, this is still being worked on and there is always room for improvement in everything that concerns software development.

But what are we talking about? From a feature that should be added to the Gboard in future updates: magic wand for making emoticons. How is it. This is a new button that appears on the keyboard and pressing it will automatically insert a text-related emoticon. How exactly it does is not yet entirely clear from what has been said, the function is still under development and has hardly taken place, but the idea is understood.

Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words, but nothing else exists yet. What do you write “hello sunshine” (the closest translation that comes to my mind right now)? The board adds several to the end of the message emoji with the closest meaning to the selected words. And so with everything. It will be necessary to look, yes, to what extent this function is practical, because it is no longer so clear.

That is, is its purpose to supplement the original message, to help pre-select emoticons, or both? Because if you have to start deleting text and remaining emoticons after writing a message, or just the remaining emoticons – there are more redundant things in the picture than desired – it makes almost more sense to continue as before, manually selecting what you want to appear on the screen. Overall, it’s still a curiosity for Gboard users that can hopefully be disabled if you don’t like it.

This means that no one will doubt that Gboard is one of the best keyboard applications for Android, but given Google’s crazy interest in recording all user activity, it may be a good idea to try out alternatives that exist and are not bad. But don’t jump from the pan into the fire: do you know OpenBoard? It’s a keyboard based on Android’s own system, a bit bare in terms of customization, but open source and very reliable. I’ll leave it there.