How to Customize Your Android Keyboard: Themes, Layouts & Feedback

Your keyboard should fit your hand and your style. Here is everything you can customize in SmartType, from themes to haptics.

You touch your keyboard thousands of times a day, so it should feel exactly right. SmartType is built to be adjusted — the look, the layout, the size, and the feedback are all in your hands.

Themes and colors

Choose from ready-made themes or tune the colors yourself — background, keys, and text — so the keyboard matches your phone and your taste. Set a background you like and the whole keyboard follows.

Layout and sizing

• ›Adjust keyboard height so it feels natural for your thumbs.
• ›Resize keys and spacing for accuracy or reach.
• ›Show or hide the number row.
• ›Switch layouts per language across 369 supported languages.

Feedback that feels good

Great typing is about feel. Turn on keypress sound and haptic (vibration) feedback, and tune them so every tap gives a satisfying, confident response — or turn them off completely for silent typing. Small key-press animations round out the experience.

Type your way

Prefer to glide? Turn on swipe (type-to-slide) input and draw words without lifting your finger. Prefer to talk? Use voice typing. SmartType adapts to how you like to type instead of forcing one style.

Make it yours in minutes

Open the SmartType app, head to customization, and experiment — changes preview instantly. A keyboard tuned to your hand is faster, more comfortable, and simply nicer to use every day.