Google offers increasingly lighter versions of its apps, we discovered this with YouTube Go, for example. watch videos offline by downloading them. The firm also focuses on the fundamentals, ignoring some options in this application. Its philosophy is the same as its virtual keyboard, the search giant goes to the basics and this ensures performance on less powerful devices.
Gboard Go: Google is releasing a lighter version of its virtual keyboard, here’s how to install it
Gboard Go ignores GIFs or the integrated search engine. Related good news AndroidPolice is this the app consumes much less resources As there is a 70 vs 40 MB RAM issue for the original version. An argument that will definitely appeal to low-power smartphone users. There are some big restrictions like having Android 8.1 Oreo on your device, if you look at the latest Android distribution very few people have that right now.
You have to go through an APK installation to be able to enjoy this virtual keyboard by downloading it. via APK Mirror. Currently not available on Play Store, the keyboard is distributed only to low-power smartphone users. The main smartphones with access to Oreo 8.1 are Nexus and Pixel. Let’s hope Google distributes a version for terminals under Nougat and Marshmallow.
