{"id":54981,"date":"2013-11-08T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=54981"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:02:57","slug":"android-kitkat-keyboard-available-in-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-kitkat-keyboard-available-in-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Android KitKat keyboard available in Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The updated <a title=\"Google Keyboard for Android download\" href=\"http:\/\/google-keyboard.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Keyboard<\/a> which debuted in <a title=\"Android 4.4 KitKat review\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/android-4-4-kitkat-review\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android 4.4 KitKat<\/a> is now available to download from Google Play. The new keyboard features a white swiping trail, built-in emojis, and the ability to swipe multiple words without lifting a finger. The swiping features works similarly to <a title=\"SwiftKey for Android trial\" href=\"http:\/\/swiftkey-x.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SwiftKey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Flow&#8221; feature, where you can swipe down to the space bar to indicate a space without having to lift a finger.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Google Keyboard requires Android 4.0 and up and there are a few KitKat only features. For example, full color emojis are built into the Google Keyboard for Android 4.4 but aren&#8217;t available to previous versions of Android. Users without 4.4 will have access to black and white emoticons instead.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full changelog of everything&#8217;s that&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<ul>\n<li>Rationalized punctuation across different sizes (4&#8243;,7&#8243; and 10&#8243;)<\/li>\n<li>Inserted emoji entry point &amp; layouts (KitKat or later)<\/li>\n<li>Simplified mini-keyboard on full stop long press (revised long-press menus)<\/li>\n<li>De-blued press states<\/li>\n<li>Added space-aware gesture typing (you will not have to lift your finger while gesture typing &#8211; just go through the space bar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Download <a title=\"Google Keyboard for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/google-keyboard.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Keyboard for Android<\/a> 4.0 and up<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/android-4-4-kitkat-review\">Android 4.4 KitKat review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-hangouts-with-sms-available-to-download\">Google Hangouts with SMS available to download<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/swiftkey-update-features-custom-keyboards\">SwiftKey update features custom keyboards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The updated Google Keyboard which debuted in Android 4.4 KitKat is now available to download from Google Play. The new keyboard features a white swiping trail, built-in emojis, and the ability to swipe multiple words without lifting a finger. The swiping features works similarly to SwiftKey&#8216;s &#8220;Flow&#8221; feature, where you can swipe down to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/android-kitkat-keyboard-available-in-google-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Android KitKat keyboard available in Google Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2422],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-54981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331859,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981\/revisions\/331859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54981"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=54981"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=54981"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=54981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}