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Malak

Malak

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I know a lot of people use custom keyboards so this may not be relevant, but i was having a lot of issues since last update. The keyboard would crash among other random issues. Anyone else have any issues?

Also I finally decided to get a custom keyboard but noticed most cost money. I am trying the hacker keyboard since it is free and it is ok. I remember swiftkey talked about before but it has been awhile.
 
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bonkers325

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try Gingerbread keyboard, its the 2.3 keyboard and is pretty good. otherwise use SwiftKey or beta swype
 
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Alone

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TouchPal is free and so far seems much better than traditional Swype (same type of keyboard).
 
Krynj

Krynj

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BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
How does SmartKeyboard Pro compare to Swiftkey?
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I've been using Smart Keyboard Pro exclusively since it came out. I've been an Android user since the G1, so I've probably tried them all over the years, and I always end up coming back to SKP. It's very quick, responsive, and has a ton of customizable typing aids. I can't say enough good things about it.

So, of course I'd say it's much better than Swiftkey. I bought Swiftkey when it was $1, and try it every so often after some updates, but, I can just never feel comfortable with it.
 
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Oyeve

Oyeve

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I use Better KB for myh phones and asus tablet. Works great for me as I dont use swype functions.
 
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Suspicious-Teach8788

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Krynj said:
I've been using Smart Keyboard Pro exclusively since it came out. I've been an Android user since the G1, so I've probably tried them all over the years, and I always end up coming back to SKP. It's very quick, responsive, and has a ton of customizable typing aids. I can't say enough good things about it.

So, of course I'd say it's much better than Swiftkey. I bought Swiftkey when it was $1, and try it every so often after some updates, but, I can just never feel comfortable with it.
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I've used Swype extensively (the newer one that's designed for tapping also), and Swiftkey and SmartkeyboardPro.

If you're Swyping, yeah that's one thing. But what do you do when you hand your phone to another person? The tapping isn't superb, but it's getting there. Furthermore, Swype seems to break completely with autocomplete browsers like Opera.

Swiftkey is a good tapping keyboard, but it's limited. I don't know why the numbers are oriented in a phonepad manner. The options are far too limited. Is it good? Is it far better than the stock Android keyboard? Yeah. However, the benefit of Swiftkey is to give great prediction, although the devs seemed to get the hint that it's better to also work with good correction. If your'e a fast typer, you're not even gonna have time to read the predictions of the next word. By the time your brain registers, you've already typed half the next word. So what's the point? I've never used the prediction on Swiftkey. And if I do, the time I take to read the options and pick the word that I want to use next, I can already type the next word. It's not faster. This is just a gimmick. It's like Google Instant. If you know what you're searching for, by the time Google Instant processes half your query, you've typed 2 more words. By the time you read the instant snapshot and want to click on one of hte results, Google Instant processes the new words you just typed on since its previous "instant search" and you lose what you just saw.

I went to Smart Keyboard Pro and I never looked back. I've been HUGE on tapping keyboards, and I've used HTC_IME for over a year. SmartKeyboard Pro offers just as many features, and is excellent as a tapping keyboard.

My only complaint is that the Shift button goes to caps instead of lower case on the first tap unlike on the iPhone.... I find this weird because a bunch of skins on SmartKeyboard mimic the iPhone or HTC, where both keyboards go to lower case when you press shift on the first word....
 
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Alone

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DLeRium said:
I've used Swype extensively (the newer one that's designed for tapping also), and Swiftkey and SmartkeyboardPro.

If you're Swyping, yeah that's one thing. But what do you do when you hand your phone to another person? The tapping isn't superb, but it's getting there.
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TouchPal that I mentioned before seems to be superior when it comes to swype typing, and the tap typing works as well as the standard keyboard.

It's free, if you haven't tried it, I suggest you do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Cr8eXuKl4
 
gorcorps

gorcorps

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DLeRium said:
I've used Swype extensively (the newer one that's designed for tapping also), and Swiftkey and SmartkeyboardPro.

If you're Swyping, yeah that's one thing. But what do you do when you hand your phone to another person? The tapping isn't superb, but it's getting there. Furthermore, Swype seems to break completely with autocomplete browsers like Opera.

Swiftkey is a good tapping keyboard, but it's limited. I don't know why the numbers are oriented in a phonepad manner. The options are far too limited. Is it good? Is it far better than the stock Android keyboard? Yeah. However, the benefit of Swiftkey is to give great prediction, although the devs seemed to get the hint that it's better to also work with good correction. If your'e a fast typer, you're not even gonna have time to read the predictions of the next word. By the time your brain registers, you've already typed half the next word. So what's the point? I've never used the prediction on Swiftkey. And if I do, the time I take to read the options and pick the word that I want to use next, I can already type the next word. It's not faster. This is just a gimmick. It's like Google Instant. If you know what you're searching for, by the time Google Instant processes half your query, you've typed 2 more words. By the time you read the instant snapshot and want to click on one of hte results, Google Instant processes the new words you just typed on since its previous "instant search" and you lose what you just saw.

I went to Smart Keyboard Pro and I never looked back. I've been HUGE on tapping keyboards, and I've used HTC_IME for over a year. SmartKeyboard Pro offers just as many features, and is excellent as a tapping keyboard.

My only complaint is that the Shift button goes to caps instead of lower case on the first tap unlike on the iPhone.... I find this weird because a bunch of skins on SmartKeyboard mimic the iPhone or HTC, where both keyboards go to lower case when you press shift on the first word....
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I find that opera breaks a lot of keyboards for whatever reason. It doesn't auto capitalise and does some other odd things that go against your keyboard settings. I ended up dropping opera because of it and now use dolphin.
 
AstroManLuca

AstroManLuca

Lifer
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The latest beta of Swype (3.25) fixes the autocomplete problem. It used to be unusable with Opera because of a "feature" they added that moved the cursor around, but they removed that.
 
AstroManLuca

AstroManLuca

Lifer
Jun 24, 2004
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Alone said:
TouchPal is free and so far seems much better than traditional Swype (same type of keyboard).
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Alone said:
TouchPal that I mentioned before seems to be superior when it comes to swype typing, and the tap typing works as well as the standard keyboard.

It's free, if you haven't tried it, I suggest you do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Cr8eXuKl4
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Whoa, just tried it out, I think I have a new favorite keyboard! Tapping seems to work better than Swype and the swiping is almost as good (perhaps better in some cases). What I like about Swype is the gestures for apostrophes and double letters - with TouchPal and some other swiping keyboards, you just ignore those things and use the word suggestions to pick the right one, but with Swype, if you do it right, you don't have to pick the right one.

The only thing I really don't like about TouchPal is I can't remove the language button. Face it, 95% of users aren't ever going to need to change languages, so why not give the option to remove it to provide more space for the space bar?

EDIT: Haha, that didn't take long. Apparently TouchPal doesn't know the word "janitor." And it automatically throws in spaces when I'm trying to tap out a word that it doesn't know, which happens a lot because the dictionary is seriously lacking.

Back to Swype.
 
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