Google launched a new app for iOS devices called Gboard that puts the power of Google search directly in the keyboard of your mobile device. This keyboard has been rumored to be in development earlier this year, and it seems that the original reports were accurate. Not only the application allows an easy way to use Google search, but it also offers a swipe based typing and access to GIFs.

Of course, the most interesting feature of this keyboard is its direct integration with Google services. Pressing the icon included "G", you are able to search Google directly without leaving your keyboard and launching a browser or the Google app. This allows you to easily search for things like flight schedules, news articles, a restaurant and business listings, weather and more from your keyboard, and then simply press to paste the information into your conversation. This information is presented at the bottom of the screen in a formal style map where each list has its own card. When tapped, the information from the card immediately appear in your chat, email, calendar or elsewhere may be on your phone at the time. This is pasted in the form of hyperlinked text, so you can do things like pull up the listing in Google Maps, Phone Company or search the web for the item in question, among other things.

However, you can also tap the "Paste" button in the "Edit" menu of iOS to copy the actual card. Although it is not a hyperlink, it presents the information in an attractive format and the details included, whether the opening hours and address of a business, the temperature today flight times or whatever you searched for. Additionally, the application supports research GIF. Google partnered with Riffsy to improve predefined categories GIF, GIF but the search is powered by Google search and the GIFs surface from a number of sources. To find a relevant GIF, you tap the emoji icon on your keyboard (the smiley face icon). This allows you to access common emoji, but a down button allows you to switch over the GIF search section instead. Gboard is an important launch for Google so that consumers today spend most of the time on their phone using native mobile applications.

At the moment, Gboard is only available in English, but more languages ​​will be added soon. Those wishing to try it can download it free of charge through the App Store.