Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard brings native themes

The guys at Android Central were able to load up their Google Nexus S with Ice Cream Sandwich. By doing this, they are able to reveal that the virtual keyboard on Android 4.0 will have native themeing. There is a keyboard theme engine and 6 themes, nothing dramatic. All this leads up to the possibility of third party keyboard themes becoming available in the Android Market.

The first Ice Cream Sandwich flavored Android smartphone, the Samsung GALAXY Nexus is now expected to launch on November 21st which means we should start hearing more about the new stock QWERTY soon. You can take a look at some screenshots of the new keyboards below and let us know what you think by dropping a comment in the box below In order they are called Basic Theme, Basic High Contrast, Gingerbread, ICS, Stone Bold and Stone Normal.

source: AndroidCentral