Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google is redesigning the UI for choosing emojis, stickers, GIFs, and emoticons in Gboard for tablets and foldables.
- The redesigned UI strikes the search bar and classes from the highest to the left aspect on each tablets and foldables.
- On tablets, the underside toolbar, the place you turn between the emoji, sticker, GIF, and emoticon picker, has additionally been moved to the left.
Google’s keyboard app for Android, Gboard, is on the market on not solely smartphones but in addition tablets, foldables, smartwatches, TVs, and even vehicles. Google needed to do a variety of work to optimize Gboard for every kind issue, however there’s at all times extra that may be achieved to make the keyboard app look and carry out even higher. The corporate is now rolling out an replace that additional optimizes the Gboard for large-screen Android gadgets.
Earlier as we speak, I noticed a brand new UI for choosing emojis, stickers, GIFs, and emoticons within the Gboard app whereas utilizing my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, a book-style foldable, in its unfolded state. I turned on my OnePlus Open and checked if the brand new picker UI was additionally there when it was unfolded, however it wasn’t. Nonetheless, after updating from Gboard model 14.5.05-beta to model 14.6.02-beta on my OnePlus Open, the brand new picker UI confirmed up.
For comparability, right here’s the outdated Gboard UI for choosing emojis, stickers, and GIFs on foldables:
This outdated picker UI is notably what you at present get on smartphones. In distinction, right here’s the brand new Gboard UI for choosing emojis, stickers, and GIFs that’s rolling out on foldables:
As you possibly can see, the outdated picker UI locations the search bar and classes on the prime under the textual content subject, whereas the brand new picker UI locations them beneath the tab header on the left. The search bar is barely bigger and now says what you’re looking for, whereas the classes at the moment are labeled as a substitute of simply being denoted by icons. Moreover, the classes at the moment are in a vertically scrolling carousel as a substitute of a horizontally scrolling one.
On foldables, the toolbar the place you turn between the emoji, sticker, GIF, and emoticon pickers continues to be positioned on the very backside above the navigation space. On tablets, although, this toolbar is moved to the very left aspect. The emoji kitchen part can be situated in barely totally different positions on foldables and tablets. On foldables, it’s situated above the vertically scrolling carousel of emojis, identical to on the outdated design. On tablets, nevertheless, it’s been moved to the left of the emoji carousel.
General, Gboard’s new UI for choosing emojis, stickers, GIFs, and emoticons is healthier optimized for large-screen gadgets like Android tablets and book-style foldable telephones. The brand new picker UI on foldables enables you to use your left hand to change between classes or faucet the search bar and your proper hand to select a selected emoji, sticker, GIF, or emoticon. The brand new picker UI on tablets is analogous however provides additional optimizations to make the most of the additional width of many pill shows.
Based on Gboard modder Radosław Błędowski, Google launched a flag to allow this tablet-optimized picker UI two years in the past. Nonetheless, we haven’t seen any experiences of this UI rolling out earlier than, and in our testing, it seems to be new, at the least on book-style foldables. If you happen to see this new picker UI within the Gboard app in your pill or foldable, tell us within the feedback!