Recommend me your favorite keyboard!
Recommend me your favorite keyboard!
I’ve been using Touchpal for a long time now, but the keyboard is getting really annoying in the latest months (blinking red dots on the keyboard, etc.)
What I need:
– Good (adaptive) word prediction
– Bilingual Input (or at least an easy toggle)
What I’d like to have:
– Easy Emoji access
– Easy access to special characters and marks (usage: coding, writing, emoticons)
– swipe input
– settings, settings, settings. I like my keyboard as I like my launcher 😉
What I hate:
– Ads and anything else moving around or disturbing my typing
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SwiftKey. No doubt…
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Fleksy
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Flesky doesn’t do swipe. I like SlideIT on my phone, SwiftKey on my tablet.
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I’m interested also in other’s suggestions.
For me I have Swype and Hacker’s Keyboard.
Swype is the one I use since the beginning due to being pre-installed on my old galaxy ace. However keep in mind I’m not a person who uses something simply because never tried other things. I tried to change to other keyboards (last time was almost a year ago, maybe I missed something in the meantime, if so tell me!) like swiftkey or others, but I always come back to Swype for a simple reason: the Swype key and it’s shortcuts. (Another reason is because to write ‘a’ or ‘I’ you can swipe from that letter to the spacebar, instead of pressing the key)
With the Swype key you have some personal-must-have features:
press it once to select the whole word the cursor is at. Believe me this is something you will miss if you get used to it (I even wish there was a similar key on computer keyboards) specially to change the latest word inputted.
Another shortcut is to swipe from the Swype key to the shift. This will allow you to change a word between this, This and THIS.
The next ones are the best thing this keyboard have, on my opinion: swipe from Swype to ‘a’ to select all, Swype>’c’ to copy, Swype>’x’ to cut and Swype>’v’ to paste. (Before you say anything: yes I know that double tapping a word the android selector bar is shown and that the paste button appear when tapping to move the cursor)
Other things: it has a special emoji keyboard (long tap the enter key), dual language input, and ability to change between languages from Swype>space bar (alternatively long press the space bar) although it is a bit slow. The word prediction is acceptable, maybe there is not an AI behind guessing your next words, but with the quick word-change I mentioned before this is not so important (for me). It doesn’t have so many settings, unfortunately, only the necessary but…well it has themes.
The only thing that is a bit painful is special characters. Yes, you can swipe from the ‘m’ to the spacebar to input a ‘?’ and some others, and there is a button to change to the special keys keyboard, but it is not the same and breaks the ‘fast typing’. This is the only thing I don’t like about the keyboard. For this reason I have Hacker’s Keyboard. (Oh, and you can for example write ‘happy’ and ☺ will appear as a suggestion)
There are no ads or disturbing things (except the ‘you can use those shortcuts’ pop-up, but only appear once if told so) because this is a paid app. However you have a free 30-days* trial.
Wow, this was long. If only I get something for the Swype advertisement 😞, just joking 😛 (but to be clear: this are all personal opinions, I got nothing writing this)
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Oh, one last thing I almost missed (there are more, but this one is important) if you do Swype>special characters key, a editor keyboard is shown with arrows to move the cursor, a toggle to select or not when moving it, and the select/copy/cut/paste buttons (alternatively long press the special keys button and choose it)
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Same problem here. Was loving touchpal until the constant monetization. I just switched back to SwiftKey. I’ve also used Slideit, swype, and ai.type. ai.type has nice features but BAD prediction.
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Hmm…didn’t realize that Swype has emoji finally. My version didn’t ( oem version?), so I re-downloaded and am evaluating now
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I have tried many. Always come back to Swype.
Nice post TrianguloY​
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Glenn H​ he didn’t say swipe was a need, just a like. Truthfully I have been using Fleksy since the public beta 2ish years ago and I don’t even miss swipe, fleksy is way faster and all around better (in my opinion), granted the learning curve is semi-steep, but after 2 days of only using Fleksy, swipe became foreign to me.
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Sterling Phry​ I tried flesky a few days ago and I guess I just didn’t get it. I’m game to try it again though. Why is it faster? Why is it better? Maybe I need to give it a couple days as well to fully get it. Could be I’m so used to swyping that I missed the deal with flesky.
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I’m using Flesky and very happy with 😃 
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SwiftKey. The best word corrections and predictions.
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Another vote for swype here, but lord help me…I also keep returning to keymonk! Swiping+tapping with two thumbs simultaneously is just so darn addicting.. On the down side it’s not in development anymore, and the only emoji are old school emoticons .. (>_< )
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TrianguloY SwiftKey does swipe too & has next word prediction. The predictions work so good for me I don’t even type much anymore. I think it’s free too.
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I also have Swype for the exact same reasons as TrianguloY​.
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That’s exactly why I’m asking here! I’ll definitely give SwiftKey and Swype a try, maybe I’ll continue with the others then.
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