Gboard for Android rolls out tweaked Dynamic Color theme

After testing last year, Gboard has widely rolled out tweaks to the Dynamic Color theme via a server-side update.

Previously, Gboard keys in the Dynamic Color theme had four sets of colors:

• Letters
• Shift, Emoji/Comma, Period, and Backspace
• ?123
• Enter

Shift, Emoji/Comma, Period, Backspace, ?123, and Enter in the bottom-right corners are now all the same color, with the 2×2 grid icon in the top-left corner for accessing various functions getting the same treatment. This is the case on phones and tablets.

This makes for a more uniform and consistent keyboard, though Dynamic Color becomes a bit less vibrant depending on your wallpaper (see the example below). Meanwhile, the change makes the dark theme feel even darker. 

This started rolling out to the beta, and later stable, version of Gboard in late October. 

As of today, we’re seeing the Dynamic Color updates widely rolled out with version 14.9 of Gboard on both the stable and beta channels. If you don’t see it yet, launch Gboard settings to Force stop from App info. Changing between the system light and dark themes might also trigger the change. 

Meanwhile, if you’re on the beta channel, Gboard today updated the 2×2 icon. Filled in, it’s no longer housed in a circle, thus breaking the symmetry with voice search.

More on Gboard:

• Gboard now rolling out redesigned hand emoji
• Gboard starts rolling out ‘Undo’ button on Android
• Here’s the full list of every emoji that works in Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen
• Gboard Emoji Kitchen redesign lets you ‘Browse’ combos