Yup, thats a nice feature not sure why it took them this long to implement it. It now also lets you search for and insert gifs from the keyboard itself.
Ugh, still waiting for the update to push out. Excited about the merge of languages instead of having to alternate between the two and yet a preference to identify what you're necessarily typing.
On my keyboard long press on the comma and emoji on bottom left and settings menu should pop up. Go to preferences to add the number row. Long press on that same spot and emoji s will pop up. You will see the gif icon at the bottom.
Hit the emoji key and then choose "GIF" at the bottom. You can search the internet for various gif files, tap them, and it'll toss them into whatever app you're in so you can send them to people .