Please recommend a better Android keyboard

[CurseTheSky]

I'm just looking for a standard multi-touch keyboard from my Droid X running 2.2. I don't want to use Swype or anything like that.

The stock keyboard is driving me nuts. I've had to turn auto-correct completely off due to several annoyances, and I keep hitting the period button instead of space.

Any recommendations?

 

[Pliablemoose]

"better keyboard"

 

[Bateluer]

I like the HTC_IME keyboard personally. Still have a tendency to hit the period though. And its not multi touch.

Loved the multi-touch keyboards of the D2 and DX, but the kanged versions on the Droid 1 overwrote all my settings for the hardware keyboard. Irritating as all hell.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Swype, SwifyKey, HTC IME are what I've used.... somehow I end up back at stock (I personally don't have a problem with it).

 

[boomhower]

I love swiftkey. I use a lot of oddball words at work that swype was just never able to learn, swiftkey does it perfectly. It does an awesome job at predicting what you are going to type next saving a ton of keystrokes. I really really like it. They have a free demo.

 

[Phobic9]

I've used a few of them but Swiftkey is the best with prediction, IMO.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I've used a few of them but Swiftkey is the best with prediction, IMO.

The more I used SwiftKey the less I liked it. At first it seemed to be awesome at predicting, but it started doing strange things like predicting other words when I typed something simple (correctly) like "that".

 

[Pliablemoose]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

 

[Dulanic]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

Once you get used to it and learn the tricks it becomes VERY fast and efficent. It took some time to get used to not looking at each word as I did it, then I just do a quick proof read if I "need" it to be correct. Now I use it all the time and love it.

 

[notposting]

I think I use Smarter Keyboard.

 

[abaez]

Has the HTC_IME keyboard been updated for the droid x 2.2? I cannot find it anywhere. I know Jonas at xda used to have mods for it from the summer but that was pre-2.2.

Dx stock keyboard is ok, but the correction is lacking. Like it doesn't change single i to I for me for some reason.

 

[trmiv]

I use the HTC_IME. The only thing I don't like about it is I can't get the auto-correction to work in the Google Search widget. So I had to just remove the google widget and put a shortcut to google on my homescreen, since I type like a monkey on crack on these touch keyboards and really need auto-correction.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

Nope. I can't stand it either.

 

[SunnyD]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

Nope, I can't "swype" worth crap either. On the flip side however, swype IS one of the better onscreen keyboards I've used. Swiftkey comes close, but swype works perfectly fine for using it like a normal keyboard.

 

[vshah]

i use swype for swyping...sometimes i switch back to smarter keyboard pro or swiftkey if i feel like a change. i can't do normal typing on swype at all for some reason.

 

[Dulanic]

i use swype for swyping...sometimes i switch back to smarter keyboard pro or swiftkey if i feel like a change. i can't do normal typing on swype at all for some reason.

I cant normal type with swype either.... but I can use it for swyping quite well...prob due to big fingers.

 

[s44]

Love Swype. Samsung has a nice iPhone copy, but I don't know if it works on non-Samsung devices.

Anyone tried 8pen? Looks like a gimmick, but maybe it works.

 

[zerocool84]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

Once you get used to it and learn the tricks it becomes VERY fast and efficent. It took some time to get used to not looking at each word as I did it, then I just do a quick proof read if I "need" it to be correct. Now I use it all the time and love it.

Yup it has a higher learning curve but infinitely faster than anything else once you get the hang of it.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Swype is nice and fast but to me it's still an excuse to not have a good keyboard.

The Droid 2's multitouch keyboard is nice BUT it doesn't have as good of a prediction/correction.

Swype is actually not bad in catching your key presses if you used it as a tapping keyboard.

HTC_IME has a pretty good prediction/correction but I hate the lack of multitouch. The settings are VERY powerful. Since Android lacks a good cursor movement unless you have a ball from HTC or unless you actualyl like using the shitty keyboard from the Droid, the ability to use the volume keys to move the cursor is amazing. I actually wished my iPod had this.

Swiftkey has a very nice prediction, but to me I'm all about speed. I want to type fast enough where I don't have to stop every word and use prediction. They claim that they save me time by not having me type the whole word and predicting my next word, but I end up thinking and reading and slowing down my typing to evaluate its suggestions. It's like google instant. IF you type fast enough, who the hell cares? If anything I type faster than the searches change, so by the time my fingers stop because I read an interesting halfway-typed search, it then refreshes to something new because I've already typed more. Enough of a rant.

Stock keyboard is a joke.

 

[trmiv]

HTC_IME has a pretty good prediction/correction but I hate the lack of multitouch. The settings are VERY powerful. Since Android lacks a good cursor movement unless you have a ball from HTC or unless you actualyl like using the shitty keyboard from the Droid, the ability to use the volume keys to move the cursor is amazing. I actually wished my iPod had this.

I guess I need to mess with the settings more, I had no idea that volume thing existed. Thanks! Now if I could only get HTC_IME prediction/correction to work in the Google Search widget.

 

[finbarqs]

i've used htc's stock keyboard, better keyboard, and swype. HTC's stock keyboard use to be okay, then it got multi-touch, and became slow as #@!!. Same with better keyboard. But at any rate, I'm just counting the days, until WP7 becomes available on sprint. I can't wait to get rid of this EVO... it's just too slow, too buggy.

 

[AFurryReptile]

Swiftkey.

I was sold the second I typed "burger" and it predicted "king".


It wasn't wrong

 

[QueBert]

Am I the only one that can't flipping use Swipe?

I've tried, and I can't stand it...

I can use it very well, but I'm still faster on Better Keyboard so I don't use Swype.

 

[vshah]

the latest swype updated has improved the prediction greatly. also the annoying "hidden word" dialog doesn't come up as often (still no way to disable it though )