Gboard starts rolling out ‘Undo’ button on Android
Gboard starts rolling out ‘Undo’ button on Android
After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button...
It took a year and a half to develop an "undo" feature? WTF is happening at Google?
I have this plus several other features like shifting left and right on the spacebar with FlorisBoard
If by shifting left and right you mean moving the cursor, that has been in gboard for 5+ years.
Oh cool, thanks for sharing this!
Never heard of floris. Trying it out right now!
It's a pass for me, due to lack of dictionary. Will keep it installed and try it again, when it's been added
... wait, you guys live without undo button??
HeliBoard gang
Same here
FUTO gang
There's a bug dating back to October that made Heliboard unusable for me, because it cuts off half of the keyboard in landscape. Looks like it just got fixed but hasn't been rolled out yet. Meanwhile heliboard is just really bad about learning new words (tends to think capitalized words are a different word and adds them to the dictionary when you start a sentence with them, can't seem to handle autocorrecting to a word with an apostrophe). I gave up on it and went back to Gboard and I don't think I'm going back. Honestly I'm real frustrated with the state of android keyboards right now. Swiftkey used to be awesome but MS ruined it. Gboard is better than it used to be but it barely has an options for customizing it. I don't know anything better.
I already had this in futo keyboard
Haha florisboard already had that
Fun fact it's always had undo if you switch to the Japanese keyboard
I have absolutely no idea why that's the only way you've been able to do it until now
it's 2025 and having a freaking CTRL key on soft keyboards is still a luxury and obscure thing.
Why? Give us the CTRL key, and that's that.
About time.
Wow, it took them this long to include a backspace button? Jeez...
(yes I only read the headline, no I'm not going to read the page, yes I think it's funny, and no I don't care that you don't. thanks for coming to my ted talk.)
Nice. I love Gboard. One of the few things Google nails.
I'm hoping it works well. Biggest thing keeping me from switching is how easy it is to switch to Japanese and Chinese, as someone who enjoys music in both languages but can barely speak any. This will definitely help if I accidentally deleted something in either of those languages while looking up a song or trying to translate something. Or just if I'm typing on my txt file app and accidentally erase something I need, since the app has no undo buttons.
Still waiting for them to give me the option to make the keyboard automatically switch to floating in landscape mode (like it did before for a short period of time!) rather than do this:
Not sure I understand why you would want that. But more options for gboard would always be good.
finally
A good reminder to stop using gboard. Others have pointed to alternatives. Heliboard is another FOSS option that's had this for years.
I wish Heliboard was usable, but it has so many small but show-stopping bugs or omissions.
I know, I know. Should fix it myself and do a pull request. Hopefully one day got time for that, like fixing the over-scaled emoji picked (that breaks kaomoji due to the scaling) or the lack of a search box there. It's easily the closest FOSS keyboard to the big two (Gboard and SwiftKey), so with a bit more work it could really compete with them I feel.
I tried heliboard. It apparently kicks ass on the back end but the front end sucks and that's the part I use.
FUTO Keyboard is the one!
I tried to love Heliboard too, had similar issues.
Moved to FUTO Keyboard after a recommendation on here, really happy with it
Really? I've been using Heliboard (as a replacement for florisboard) and I have had literally no complaints works just as well as gboard did for me. I 100% recommend Heliboard I think its 10/10
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That shakes me to my core. Lol
I was looking for an alternative to fossify, thanks for the recommendation
I rely on the glide typing to much, and all I've tried don't feel as smooth. But I'm on GrapheneOS and disallowed internet access to GBoard, so while not great, it's fine for now
Heliboard has glide typing lol, although the file has to be downloaded manually iirc.
Gboard combines Japanese and German in a way that is properly usable. I wish there was a better alternative. That being said, support for east Asian languages (and easy switching) isn't relevant for most.
But no Gboard means no voice typing :( I use that thing every day.
Heliboard with Futo voice typing ( unlike gboard it works offline)
Gboard voice typing backend:
Why don't we like gboard again?
Personal data collection
That "g" stands for Google. You don't pay for Google products, so you are the product being sold. You touch your keyboard often. You press sensitive and embarrassing things into it.
The addition of an option is a good reminder for you to talk about your book. Fine. GBoard is still king for those of us who use 3 languages at the same time. Unrequested suggestions and virtus signaling are sooo annoying...
You took the time to comment just like me. I use a few languages too, yours simply sounds like virtue signalling for gboard. ¯|(ツ)/¯