{"id":1237674,"date":"2025-03-06T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237674"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:50:00","slug":"gboard-testing-circle-pill-shaped-keys-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237674","title":{"rendered":"Gboard Testing Circle, Pill-Shaped Keys On Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Google Gboard for Android is introducing circle or pill-shaped keys for some beta testers today. &#8220;Instead of the key borders being rounded rectangles, Gboard is switching to circles and pills for letters, while the space bar and other keys are now pill-shaped,&#8221; reports 9to5Google. &#8220;While there should be no functional change to touch targets, these new shapes really shift the look of Gboard for Android.&#8221; From the report: On paper, it&#8217;s a bit more modern (and rounded) compared to what came before. However, it&#8217;s a bit cramped if you have &#8220;Long press for symbols&#8221; enabled, which goes from the top-right corner to being directly above the letter. The physical analog Gboard is moving away from is how most keys on laptops and desktops are square.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Gboard+Testing+Circle%2C+Pill-Shaped+Keys+On+Android%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F06%2F2242258%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twitter_icon_large-100.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F06%2F2242258%2Fgboard-testing-circle-pill-shaped-keys-on-android%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/facebook_icon_large-102.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/03\/06\/2242258\/gboard-testing-circle-pill-shaped-keys-on-android?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23629507&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Gboard for Android is introducing circle or pill-shaped keys for some beta testers today. &#8220;Instead of the key borders being rounded rectangles, Gboard is switching to circles and pills for letters, while the space bar and other keys are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}