Keyboard 4.0 sports new, Material Design-inspired look

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 12 Nov 2014

There are plenty of great Android keyboards out there, but fortunately isn’t ignoring its own solution.

Keyboard 4.0 joins the growing list of apps made-over with Material Design, giving it a cleaner look adding some useful tweaks.

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Tweak how long it takes for those secondary keys to fire up.

You can now customize how long to hold down a key to trigger its secondary function. For example, holding down the “r” launches the “4.” So if you’re impatient, you can make the delay time super short.

There are two new themes: material dark or material white. But if you like the old look, the original holo blue holo white from KitKat are still available.

The entire settings section also matches the white background teal buttons found in other Material Design-madeover apps. The new version is rolling out in ay, or you can grab the A from Android lice.

y this matters: is reworking its stock apps with its Material Design design guidelines, getting them ready just in time for llipop to hit the ecosystem. ile Keyboard doesn’t have as large of a feature set as others, it’s becoming a more solid option to hle everyday typing needs.