Gboard presented A Material 3 in January sees an expressive redesign of shortcuts, now more widely available to beta users.
Update 5/26: Beta Gboard users since version 17.4 lost this shortcut design in the last day. Stable users have not yet seen this update. This is hopefully a sign that Google is ready to roll out this update widely.
Original 5/18: Gboard used to use a grid layout for the shortcuts page. Each element is placed on a small rectangular card, and you can adjust the keyboard to fit a view without vertical scrolling (make it longer when resized).
The Material 3 Expressive redesign puts everything in a round pill, with two shortcuts per row. Now swipe left to view the next page of tools.
Old and new
The actual icons are unchanged, the text labels are significantly larger on the right. Unfortunately, some shortcut labels will slide because they don’t fit into the container.
You can tap the pencil icon to edit with more M3 Expressive containers on the Drag and drop to customize page.
At the same time, Gboard drops its shortcut container in the suggestion bar, with the back button replaced by a close-up “x” in the upper-left corner.
This follows the Material 3 Expressive redesign of the Gboard Settings page. Over the past week, this redesign has become widespread beta users Gboard (version 17.3). It doesn’t appear on the stable channel yet.
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