One UI (Android Pie) feature focus: Samsung keyboard gets floating mode

Terminal updated: November 28th, 2018 at 08:02 UTC+01:00

The Samsung Keyboard app received many new features with Android 8.0 Oreo, such as high-contrast themes, a customizable toolbar, and new emojis, stickers, and GIFs. And the app is getting even more functionality with Ane UI/Android Pie. One of the new Samsung Keyboard features in Pie is a floating keyboard fashion.

Samsung keyboard gets its shackles removed in Pie

Equally the proper name suggests, floating keyboard isn't the same as the one-handed mode. This characteristic was available on Samsung phones a few years ago before the company started to double down on streamlining its software. Information technology allows you to reduce the size of the keyboard and movement information technology anywhere on the screen. The transparency and size of the floating keyboard tin exist adjusted every bit well. You can consider it an extension of the one-handed keyboard mode, although it'due south too useful for two-handed usage past letting you move the keyboard upwardly on the screen and making it less cumbersome for your thumbs to admission the keyboard keys.

Using the Galaxy S9 or Milky way S9+ with the Android Pie beta? To access floating way, tap the downwards-pointing arrow icon on the keyboard, tapModes, then tap the Floating keyboardselection. This will relaunch the keyboard in floating mode. To adjust the size and transparency of the floating keyboard, simply go into the mode choice menu again and tap theSize and transparency option. The same menu can also be used to go back to the standard keyboard or to switch to the one-handed keyboard.

See what else is new with Ane UI and Android Pie for Milky way smartphones. To find out if your device is eligible for the Android Pie update, go here.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/2018/11/27/samsung-one-ui-android-pie-keyboard-floating-mode

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