How To Draw Emojis On Gboard

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Google is introducing a number of interesting new updates to its Gboard keyboard app for Android today, one of which builds on a number of arty, AI-infused announcements from the company of late.

Starting time launched for iOS users final May, Gboard integrates search into the keyboard app so users tin can detect GIFs and emojis, every bit well as search for information online. The app eventually arrived on Android in Dec, serving every bit a replacement for the existing Google Keyboard app.

Google has previously outlined some of the machine learning smarts behind the Gboard app, and with its latest update the company is edifice on a ton of recent initiatives that blur the lines between man creativity and machines.

Now, if y'all're wanting to include an emoji in a message, Gboard will let you to draw a flick of it with your finger via the emoji search box — Google then surfaces the emoji it thinks you're looking for.

Above: Gboard: Draw an emoji.

While it's not entirely articulate how much quicker this volition prove compared to manually searching for an emoji, in some means this is likely designed more as a bear witness of engineering by Google that gives a applied employ case for its machine learning R&D in a public domain.

Last month, Google appear an update to its Allo messaging app that combines human artists with neural networks to turn photographic selfies into stickers automatically. And presently before that, Google unveiled AutoDraw every bit an AI experiment that lets anyone create a detailed drawing based on a uncomplicated handmade doodle.

The cyberspace giant is too researching means to enable computers to generate sketches that await as though they were created by humans.

Elsewhere, Gboard also now offers suggestions for phrases that yous may wish to type next in real time. This is similar to other popular keyboard apps including SwiftKey, which was caused by Microsoft last twelvemonth.

Above: Gboard predictive typing.

This characteristic is currently only bachelor in English, though Google notes that more languages volition exist added soon.

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