Google the last few months has been developing its own keyboard for mobile devices iPhone and iPad. Such information sources include The Verge.
The keyboard will get a number of significant differences from the standard iOS keyboard. In particular, the user can type text by sliding your finger from one letter to another without lifting it from the display. Built a predictive algorithm to suggest words.
The keyboard will contain a button to quickly jump to the search box. Thus, Google plans to increase the number of search queries performed on iPhone and iPad. In addition, the interface will appear buttons for image search and GIF animations. The design of the keyboard unit is made in the style Material Design.
The publication was unable to obtain comment from the Internet giant and to know when the planned release of the development. According to research, half of smartphone owners not using the search, while on desktops, each user sends a search query to 1.23 per day.
In December last year Yandex has released its own keyboard for the iPhone. It has everything you need for communication: predictive input and spell check is to write quickly and without errors, search pictures, gifs – to Express what is difficult to put into words, search for places and addresses in order to inform friends where an appointment and an interpreter to communicate with those who do not know Russian language.
In the keyboard Yandex is enabled and the Emoji set: when the user types on the smartphone the text, it selects Emoji that are appropriate in meaning to the words and shows them in tooltips. The company was criticized for the fact that the keyboard advertises well-known brands when you enter a search query in the browser.
