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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Swiftkey is pretty good both ways. I like swype's pop up selection, but swiftkey flow works better for me in predicting what I want to type in either flow or regular typing.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Yeah I've never swiped to type in my life, and I'm too old and crotchety to change now.
spindoctor
Member
You should give it a fair shot if you have a keyboard that supports it. It becomes so natural after a while that you'll never want to go back to punching individual letters to type.
Marty Chinn
Member
I could never get into two thumb typing, but Swyping has been easy to pick up after just a month of usage over the last month. In fact going back to an iOS device makes me really miss how quick and easy it is.
Especially if you're the kind of person who generally texts actual words. Sometimes Swype can be a bit irritating if I try to put in something I assume it'd recognize as a word but is actually too slangy for its dictionary. I'm assuming that wouldn't be a problem with swiftkey because you'd just have to finish the word on your own.
The Faceless Master
Member
over 50? cause I know people that old who use SwiftKey.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
OK, seriously, who at Google thinks no auto space after a comma is a good idea?
Yeah, sounds like a CM issue.
Yeah, sounds like a CM issue.
Hit that Send Feedback button in the settings.
I think it has something to do with the new modem. The latest nightlies should fix it.
spindoctor
Member
Nice update to Press. I always hated that extra page you had to go through if you just wanted to see your entire feed.
Indeed.
They will offer the option to connect to Feedly, which is free, very soon.
rocketknight
Member
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
No. It's still the best RSS reader on any mobile platform.
Yeah, I read that, thanks. It's a shame I have to link my Google account with Feedly.
Victory Red
Member
No Dark theme, no buy
SirMossyBloke
Member
I finally had to ditch Swiftkey. It was absolutely awful, at least compared to the stock Sense 5 keyboard. Constantly autocorrecting when it didn't need to be, adding a period after words are autocorrected if I hit space ONCE, correcting to awful words that are nothing like what I mistyped.
Went back to stock Sense 5 and it was a dream.
Went back to stock Sense 5 and it was a dream.
Yeah, I prefer Swiftkey for actual typing, but am really not too fond of its word prediction and auto-correction. Not sure why I paid for it actually.
Junior Mint
Member
I told y'all swiftkey sucks
The Faceless Master
Member
if they're *really* old and still DRM protected, nothing will play them. you would have to either upgrade them to DRM free or burn a cd and re-rip.
Swiftkey is highly configurable, specially about when it should auto correct or not. Most of my friends that didn't like it because of auto corrections started to like it after spending some time to configure the app.
SwiftKey seems to be either one extreme or another. Put me down in the love group. I don't know why it's not working for some of you, but I've tried several keyboards (stock GS3, Swype, stock 4.2, Thumb) and none of them work as well as SwiftKey for me. Autocorrections are always on point, it learns from my previous conversations as well as twitter, facebook, etc. I cant judge how well it is when it comes to swiping because I think swiping to write on a phone is stupid.
FormallyMegadrive
Member
Swiftkey for smaller screens is fantastic. On tablets, i didn't like it though. It's really ugly..
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I stopped using Swiftkey. I use the Google Keyboard now. It was too slow. Not bad but not great. It's not as good at swiping as Swype. If I could take Swype's swiping, SK's word prediction, and Google's speed, I'd be a happy man.
FYI, download Google Keyboard. Go to settings, input, spell checker. Change it from AOSP to Google Keyboard spell checker. It's better.
FYI, download Google Keyboard. Go to settings, input, spell checker. Change it from AOSP to Google Keyboard spell checker. It's better.
Try out Kii. It isn't exactly the best of all worlds, but a good compromise. Its the only 3rd party keyboard i could stand for more than a week.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I've tried that. IIRC, it didn't let me adjust hold for alternate symbol times. That killed it.
There is a setting to change the longpress duration though...unless it was something specific you were looking for?
Kii is definitely the best. Blows swype away in my tests.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I tried Google keyboard for about an hour. Realised it didn't have a fucking comma on the main screen and deleted it.
Bwuh? On mine it does. It's to the left of the spacebar. On my tablet, it's above the apostrophe.
spindoctor
Member
I just checked and you're right (Android US keyboard). Holding down the period button for a second brings up the comma though so it's not ridiculously obscured.