{"id":163619,"date":"2016-05-03T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T06:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163619"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T06:30:49","slug":"android-keyboard-gets-massive-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/163619-android-keyboard-gets-massive-upgrade.html","title":{"rendered":"Android keyboard gets massive upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has pushed out an update for its\u00a0stock Android keyboard, which brings multiple new features to users.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the update is a one-handed mode, quicker access to the number pad and emoji,\u00a0and improvements to gesture typing, reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/02\/android-keyboard-huge-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an option to lengthen your keyboard if you are using a phablet, and the choice of adding a border around individual keys.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the update is rolling out now and should become available on the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ut8vHJOn3Ic\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Android<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/163394-blackberry-priv-upgrade-to-android-marshmallow-released.html\">BlackBerry PRIV upgrade to Android Marshmallow released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162968-chromebooks-set-to-receive-android-apps.html\">Chromebooks set to receive Android apps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has pushed out an update for its stock Android keyboard, which brings multiple new features to users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,397,36951],"class_list":["post-163619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google-keyboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163625,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163619\/revisions\/163625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}