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Knowing the Basics
• Tap to enter miniature icons, such as expressions, horoscopes, and animals.
• Tap to use Google voice typing.
• Pressandhold to change the input language or set up the Google Keyboard.
• Pressandhold and slide to to change to a smaller keyboard for easier
one-handed typing. Tap / to switch to the right-hand or left-hand keyboard,
respectively. Tap to switch back to the full-sized keyboard.
Gesture Typing
The Google Keyboard supports the gesture typing feature. You use this feature to input a
word by sliding through the letters.
To enable and use gesture typing:
1. On the Google Keyboard, press and hold > Google Keyboard Settings.
2. Tap Gesture typing and then tap Enable gesture typing if this feature is turned o.
3. Move your nger from letter to letter on the keyboard to trace a word without lifting
the nger until you reach the end of the word.
End of the word
Start of the word