Gboard going to come to android anytime soon?

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People who use android have been able to use custom keyboards for almost a decade now.

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that may be true but gboard is better than anything else on the market right now.


You're wrong about not being impressed. I've been with swiftkey for forever and as soon as i saw a friend using gboard i was ready to switch. only to find out i couldn't. this was like 3 months ago. and still nothing on the android side.

yeah it didn't make any sense that gboard went to ios before android.

Same here

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Google makes more money than any other developer on ios.

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I'm sure it is super useful if you don't have a share button. Much of what Gboard brings to ios would save only one step or be duplicative of what now on tap does.

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Exactly. Just type the phrase, Now on Tap and share it. GBoard doesn't really save much more time, and Android can share from anywhere.

Hold your home button or O button. Check it out. It's pretty damn cool.

Highlight whatever you're talking about in the text. Hold google now on tap. Choose whatever you want to do with it. Hit the share button. It's just about the same. The only difference is it isn't split screen unless you want to enable dual screen. It isn't the same experience carte blance as gboard, but you don't see how the service is similar?

Highlight the restaurant. Engage Now on Tap. Hit the G button underneath the restaurant's name. Highlight the address. Hit the share button and select your text conversation from the recents or your text app. Profit.

ok, don't highlight the restaurant and pick it from the list after you engage tap. I've already told you you leave the app, unless you utilize dual screen. The share button takes you right back. That's why it doesn't really matter on android in the same way that it does on ios.

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you have to leave the app and go find the restaurant in a search engine to highlight it.

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Also, to be clear, you don't have to leave the app to highlight it. You can highlight the restaurant from the text message.

Finally, tap isn't a keyboard. You can use it everywhere, not just when you have text input enabled. Again, this is about a comparable service that is baked into android, that you can use with any keyboard.

All that being said, I'm not really interested in debating with you minute differences between gboard and what now on tap does. My intention was trying to help you utilize it. If you don't want to utilize it, that's fine, but I don't really care how great gboard is because your screen doesn't change but just splits.