Google keyboard (gboard) keeps crashing, won't go away After a recent Android update, about a month ago, "gboard", the built-in Google keyboard on my Nexus started crashing.  This made the phone completely unusable, of course.  With some effort, I managed to install an alternate keyboard -- Swiftkey -- and this made most of the gboard crashing go away.

But not all of it.  Every hour or so, I still get an "Unfortunately, gboard has stopped" dialog box that locks my phone until I ack it.   This is rather problematic if I'm using the phone for something else, and (for example) will cause my alarm clock app to not go off.

So, question:

How do I stop the "Unfortunately, gboard has stopped" dialog from ever happening again, short of a factory reset?

Can I reinstall or uninstall gboard?  How?  Can I surpress the error dialogs?  Is there some other solution to this?

(Note: "wait for some update to fix the problem" is not an answer; I have no reason to believe that this is a general enough issue that Google will ever fix it)
It's very easy - just follow the instructions below:

Open Settings/App Management/Gboard/Storage;

Then clear up the cache and you are good to go! If it does not work even after this step, you have to follow the exact same instructions but instead of clearing cache you clear data. That is a sure shot method to get it to work, but I do not recommend it before you clear cache as when you clear data your preferences are reset.