---
title: "How to change your Android keyboard"  
description: "In this article I am telling you that how to change your Android keyboard"  
author: "Manoj Pandey"  
published: 2015-04-22  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1737/how-to-change-your-android-keyboard  
category: "mobile/tablet"  
tags: ["mobile device", "mobile troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to change your Android keyboard

[Android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1567/navigation-drawer-implementation-in-android) handsets are much competent however if user still needs to [replace](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2310/how-to-replace-character-in-jquery) their keyboards both Android [as well as](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156547/difference-between-max-width-and-width-as-well-as-max-height-and-height) iOS users have the option to opt for the third party replacement. In android have [multiple language](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/232/how-is-dot-net-able-to-support-multiple-languages) [keyboard](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23117/android-soft-keyboard-close-hide) such as Hindi, English, [Chinese](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84615/pentagon-tracking-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-over-the-us) etc.\

For example we are searching anything’s in [google](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1191/top-products-and-services-from-google) and we want to search our own language then we have need to different keyboard.

##### Here I am telling you how to set different keyboard.

Step 1-: You can set different keyboard before use keyboard

· Launch [Settings](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/99336/how-can-i-configure-gmail-imap-settings) then Choose Language & Input

![How to change your Android keyboard](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5e401e55-cf85-42f6-b9f1-d58e6b646278/images/78487d8a-75f7-42d8-b2f6-48bd8ddb0fc2.png)

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· Now you can choose your language or changes current keyboard

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![How to change your Android keyboard](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5e401e55-cf85-42f6-b9f1-d58e6b646278/images/5fa49937-00f3-49a7-bf1b-2b2e1ba08a64.png)

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Step 2-: You can also change keyboard when you are typing to follow some steps.

· Swipe on top to bottom and click on Choose input method.

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![How to change your Android keyboard](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/5e401e55-cf85-42f6-b9f1-d58e6b646278/images/75db158b-e46d-4963-b450-8e1e06b3b6d7.png)

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· Now you can change your keyboard which you want to select

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