Gmail’s Smart Compose feature is likely coming to Gboard

Eagle-eyed Android users are great at catching upcoming app updates before their public release. App reverse-engineering guru Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) recently posted a series of tweets that reveal some of Google’s future app updates. Wong highlighted updates coming to Gboard, Digital Wellbeing, and Google Contacts.

Perhaps the most exciting update mentioned is one coming to Google’s keyboard app, Gboard. It looks like Gmail’s Smart Compose functionality will soon no longer be exclusive to the email client and will be coming to Gboard as well.

This sentence completion technology uses machine learning to predict what the user is going to type next. Since Google appears to be baking Smart Compose into its keyboard app, it should be available whenever you use Gboard. However, we will have to test it out before we can say for certain or not.

It also looks like Google will include GIF suggestions based on what emotion the user types. According to Wong’s tweet, typing things like happy, angry, or sad reveals a series of related GIFs that the user can then include in the message.