3.3 Multilingual Keyboard Support - dikodahan/dikodahan.github.io GitHub Wiki
If the only language you are interested in is English, you can skip to step 3.4 of this guide!
| Google TV supports multilingual keyboard by default. Some versions of Android TV requires adding a new keyboard to natively support multilingual keyboard. |
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- Press and hold the OK button > Android Settings > System > Keyboard > If your current installed keyboard is Gboard you can continue to step 3. Otherwise, continue with the steps below.
- Launch the Google Play Store app, either from the app or from the remote Play Store key if you have it.
- go to the top right side of the top menu bar, the magnifying glass and search:
gboard.- You may need click on a More Info button to validate if the app is installed already or not.
- If the button says Uninstall, it is already installed and you can continue from step 4 here. Otherwise, click Install.
- Press the back button a few times to get back to the Home screen.
- From the Home screen, press and hold the OK button for the side menu to appear > Android Settings > System / Device preferences (depending on your ATV version) > Keyboard.
- If you needed to install Gboard in the earlier steps, contine with this step: Manage keyboards > make sure to enable Gboard and disable all Leanback Keyboard options. Leave the rest unchanged.
- Click the Back button once and then go into: Gboard Settings > Languages
- Uncheck the: Use system language
- Make sure English (US) remains checked.
- Scroll down to search for any additional languages you may want to add and enable it.
- You will now see a little world globe icon to the left of the space-bar to let you switch languages.
- Click the back button several time to exit to the Home screen.