This new Gboard feature could make it as dumb as the iPhone keyboard (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Gboard could let you hide the comma and period keys. This would be in line with Apple’s iPhone keyboard, which hides these keys. This would be a strange decision, and we hope Google doesn’t enable it by default. Apple made the baffling decision a few years ago to hide the comma and period keys on its iPhone keyboard. Now, it looks like Google could offer this same “feature” in Gboard for Android, and I’m not sure why. Authority Insights story on Android Authority. Discover You're reading anstory on Android Authority. Discover Authority Insights for more exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage you won't find anywhere else. An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release. We dug into a recent beta version of Gboar ... Read full article.