Gboard preps new round of Material You: Shortcuts bar, text editing, and settings [Gallery] - 9to5Google

Last August, Google rolled out a handful of Material You flourishes to Gboard for Android, and a few more are now coming to the keyboard, including the shortcuts bar.

Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect.

Meanwhile, the shortcuts (or “access point” items as they’re referred to) are now housed in rounded rectangles that are very reminiscent of Material You (MD3) chips.

It allows more functions to be easily added in the future, while the Text Editing layout is getting a Material You modernization of its own with rounded corners for each button.

Another Material You update is to settings!

It’s not clear when Gboard will widely roll out the Material You bar and other design changes.

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