Nowadays, Google has started rolling-out an update for the Google Keyboard that offers with it two new Material Design inspired themes. The themes are related to the ones found on the preview images of Android Lollipop for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.
The new themes are also includes Material Dark and Material Light — are keeping in line with the Material Design tips from Google and have a smooth and sleek look. The update does not introduce any new features apart from these two new themes and restoring the ability to customize the long press duration, which was taken out by Google in a previous update.
The new two themes are also available to all Android 4.1+ gadgets, though you’ll have to activate it yourself by going to the Keyboard settings -> Theme and easily selecting either the Material Light or Material Dark theme.
The update is live on the Google Play Store but might not appear instantly. You can always manually sideload the APK by downloading it from here.
