Gboard's latest beta adds support for stickers and Bitmoji

Google's popular keyboard app called Gboard will soon get a couple of new features. The Gboard beta version 6.5 is being tested for a new feature that will let you add Bitmoji and stickers. 

The Gboard app now has a new sticker tab, that's accessible from either top button bar or the overflow menu. The stickers can also be accessed by going to emoji, and then switching to the new stickers tab at the bottom. After tapping on the stickers tab you will be prompted to install the sticker packs from Play Store, or download the Bitmoji app. 

Once installed, the sticker or Bitmoji pack will appear on the bottom of the keyboard as an icon (near emoji & GIF icon), and tapping the icon will show all stickers you can use. The sticker/Bitmoji feature will work with any app that already supports GIFs. Similar to GIFs, you can also search for stickers.

Currently you can choose stickers from a wide-variety of packs including Garfield, Despicable Me 3, Power Rangers, Trolls, Disney, Hello Kitty and more. There's also a couple of paid sticker packs as well. 

Apart from the addition of stickers and Bitmoji, Gboard also gets a few minor tweaks like tweaked shift and backspace keys, and redesigned themes panel.

For testing the new features you have to sign up for the beta testing program, and install the latest update, or you can download it from APKMirror and manually side-load it. 

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