I love the size and spacing of the Samsung Keyboard, but I really miss the auto-correct.
I've tried a number of other keyboards but they all have the keys too close together. I have Better Keyboard 8 with a number of Skins, a few Gingerbread keyboards, Swype (of course)...
Any ideas?
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Samsung keyboard does have auto correction, you have to enabled it in settings, its called xt9, also go into xt9 advanced settings to enable other settings.
I use smart keyboard pro. Has skin to look like any keyboard plus the characters pop up so you can see what you're typing and it has auto correct
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First thing I installed.
lindsaydr said:
I use smart keyboard pro. Has skin to look like any keyboard plus the characters pop up so you can see what you're typing and it has auto correct
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I would suggest using swiftkey, best keyboard ive used imo.
Stock keyboard isn't too bad with xt9 on, but current keyboard of choice is the thumb keyboard beta from these very forums. Worth a try.
Swiftkey is second choice for me though.
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I like the "stock gingerbread keyboard" on the market. Works a charm and reminds me of my old HTC Hero.
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+1 for smart keyboard pro
its fantastic
dan13l said:
Stock keyboard isn't too bad with xt9 on, but current keyboard of choice is the thumb keyboard beta from these very forums. Worth a try.
Swiftkey is second choice for me though.
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Thanks for that suggestion for thumb keyboard just trying it out and seems very good, I can type pretty fast using this keyboard and it seems fast.
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Thanks for all this advice. I've tried out Smart Keyboard and Swiftkey. I like that they both give clear options when I use voice input but what has sold me on Smart Keyboard is that it also has a Retry button after voice input if you don't find a match for what you dictated. I couldn't see that Swiftkey has that. Quicker than cancelling the entry and then clicking on the voice input button again.
Apart from that, I couldn't say that one is better than the other. I haven't done a lot of testing so I cannot say if one is more accurate than the other on finding the right words.
Dannyboyni said:
I would suggest using swiftkey, best keyboard ive used imo.
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I have always used Swiftkey but Im not sure if anyone else has experienced the missing word correction/choices bar in landscape mode on same apps on the S2. Its there on handcent and messaging apps but not on the default email client. This was never a problem on my desire. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I have always used Swiftkey but Im not sure if anyone else has experienced the missing word correction/choices bar in landscape mode on same apps on the S2. Its there on handcent and messaging apps but not on the default email client. This was never a problem on my desire. Has anyone else experienced this?
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All third party keyboards are missing auto correct in the default email app...its quite a put off!!!!
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All third party keyboards are missing auto correct in the default email app...its quite a put off!!!!
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I thought I saw it in portrait mode yesterday. Must have been dreaming. Its pretty poor cant help thinking how polished the software was on the Desire.
+1 smart keyboard pro rocks
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I currently use the free gingerbread one on market
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My favorite is SmartKeyboard Pro.
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Gingerbread keyboard!!! this is pretty much all i use..
Better keyboard is great. Black keys outlined in white with great spell correct. I use Better Keyboard 8. Also skins for it. Adjustable size of keys also
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My favorite is SmartKeyboard Pro.
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This.
Tried BetterKB, Gingerbread, Swype, SlideIt, Ultra, but SmartKeyb pro is easily the best for me.
Personally HTC IME Mod is the best fit for me, nice big buttons, and plenty of useful features, like moving through text with the volume rocker or even much needed spell check for the hardware KB.
Swype. /thread
I still go back to the droid x keyboard, I love it.
themed gingerbread keyboard. Best. Ever
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Gingerbread keyboard i find is most smart at how u type.. more accurate than any other
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I use gingerbread keyboard the most.
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I like the stock samsung keypad that came with 2.2
k0nane said:
Swype. /thread
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Agree. Swype is the fastest and easiest for me. You do have to have good spelling to get the best result out of it though!
Orderwise you ends up making silky ousts on treats
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Can keyboards be combined? For instance Gingerbread with Swype
Shapewriter. It's like Swype, done right. I find Swype to be way too inaccurate, and I dislike the popup. Shapewriter is more accurate and has a bar of word suggestions above the keyboard rather than a popup.
It was pulled from the market when Nuance bought out the developer, but you can still find it fairly easily (as in, linked in the forums at www.shapewriter.com).
It is always one of my first installs, along with Handcent and Androzip.
Hey Devs,
I am not usually into themeing, I really like stock looks often.
But today while using the SGS III keyboard, I suddenly thought How awesome would it look like if the Samsung Keyboard had the same "finish" like the back of the device or the front near the home button.
Horizontal metallic lines - If anyone wishes to create such a theme, I'd be thrilled to test it
Bye for now
I would love a white keyboard like the one on tab
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Try the SwiftKey beta 3 from their website. That has a blue theme and it is also a great keyboard. I haven't got my s3 yet but going by previous Samsung keyboards I guess it is a good option
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Same to be said about smartbkeyboard pro.
I'm actually using the galaxy theme on my galaxy s3 but it it has many colours and a much better predictive text than the 'bouncy' stock.
Also tried swiftkey which was good but couldn't get used to the non standard layout
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Alex Charles said:
Same to be said about smartbkeyboard pro.
I'm actually using the galaxy theme on my galaxy s3 but it it has many colours and a much better predictive text than the 'bouncy' stock.
Also tried swiftkey which was good but couldn't get used to the non standard layout
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What Do you mean by the "bouncy" stock?
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The auto correct for the stock keyboard often changes the words especially shorter ones it abbreviates it with no way of saving your petsonalised words without going into the personal dictionary first
Example being every time I would type in MB or GB et it would place a full stop before it without giving me an option to do so. I referred to it as bouncy as I was constanlty going back and forth to correct the punctuation myself which sounds pittiful but is annoying when you can't type quickly !
The only thing I do miss about the stock keyboard though was that it had an integrated swipe function without changing it in the settings. Now that was handy for texting quickly when you only had one hand
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Alex Charles said:
The auto correct for the stock keyboard often changes the words especially shorter ones it abbreviates it with no way of saving your petsonalised words without going into the personal dictionary first
Example being every time I would type in MB or GB et it would place a full stop before it without giving me an option to do so. I referred to it as bouncy as I was constanlty going back and forth to correct the punctuation myself which sounds pittiful but is annoying when you can't type quickly !
The only thing I do miss about the stock keyboard though was that it had an integrated swipe function without changing it in the settings. Now that was handy for texting quickly when you only had one hand
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Yes it is possible, you are wrong, play with settings.
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So no takers? Thanks for the suggestions on the alternative keyboards but for those of us who actually "like" the stock keyboard is someone willing to take up the task?
It would be highly appreciated.
I heard there was a big improvement to the keyboard from JB. Since I am on Samsung, how can I convert to use the JB keyboard instead of Samsung?
is there a way to program from the keyboard to automatically predict the next word, instead of having to hit the suggestions?
Just use SwiftKey keyboard 3. It's the best.
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It might be part of the GAPOS 4.2. Check in the theme section. Once you have the app installed, you can change the what keybaord to use in the setting.
hipertec said:
I heard there was a big improvement to the keyboard from JB. Since I am on Samsung, how can I convert to use the JB keyboard instead of Samsung?
is there a way to program from the keyboard to automatically predict the next word, instead of having to hit the suggestions?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992606&highlight=4+2+keyboard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964668&highlight=4+2+keyboard
As the title goes, which one do you guys prefer? After playing with swift today, I went back to Swype. I like it better. I am think that even the stock keyboard is nice, but the multitude Swype gestures available on Swype really make it powerful. Keep in mind that I use the Swype/flow functions in these, I almost never tap.
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mike2518 said:
As the title goes, which one do you guys prefer? After playing with swift today, I went back to Swype. I like it better. I am think that even the stock keyboard is nice, but the multitude Swype gestures available on Swype really make it powerful. Keep in mind that I use the Swype/flow functions in these, I almost never tap.
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I was using SwiftKey on my Nexus and actually bought the app well quite frankly I enjoy it more than the stock keyboard.
Also, SwiftKey has a function called 'Float' which is essentially Swype. I still don't use it, but then just love the feel of SwiftKey. Not sure if this feature is available with the free version.
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I was using SwiftKey on my Nexus and actually bought the app well quite frankly I enjoy it more than the stock keyboard.
Also, SwiftKey has a function called 'Float' which is essentially Swype. I still don't use it, but then just love the feel of SwiftKey. Not sure if this feature is available with the free version.
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Yea, swiftkey flow is the feature I was talking about when comparing both.
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Nothing beats SwiftKey
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Swiftkey on tablets, Swype on phones.
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Swift-Kizzle flizow - gets my vizote
Standard AOSP... Works fine
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I tend to use SwiftKey on my Nexus 7 but I'm sticking with Swype on the phone. I've been using the Swype beta since the Vibrant and it's a bit difficult to get used to different swipe gestures.
SwiftKey Flow (now part of SwiftKey itself) is by far better keyboard than swype, than stock, than anyone. Period. The only one that maybe looks promising is fleksy, and I didn't tried yet, so by now, sk has the best word prediction, imho.
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I wanna try the flow thing but I bought my swiftkey from Amazon a while ago and it's still on version 1.1.19. Anyone know if I can upgrade?
I'm back on Swype. I was using Swift key flow beta until it expired yesterday. I got a notification that said swift key corrected 175 of my typos. Actually, the typos were due to swiftkey's poor predictive text I would slowly drag my thumb over N...O...T and the word "not" would be in the predictive box, but as soon as I went to E (for Note), it would change and input the word "busy" .. delete...pound out letter by letter
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Neither I prefer Kii keyboard, I have found it to be way more intuitive
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neither.... I use slideit you can resize keyboard so you can one hand slide keyboard
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I wanna try the flow thing but I bought my swiftkey from Amazon a while ago and it's still on version 1.1.19. Anyone know if I can upgrade?
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I've had a couple of upgrades to my Amazon-bought SwiftKey, this week. Flow is now included.
Flow is pretty awesome Better than swype IMHO.
There's a reason I've used SwiftKey since the alpha. It was the best then and it's only gotten better over time, but I don't really care for the flow/swype stuff, it's not that accurate to me. But I did just use it to type this so it's not too bad on SwiftKey
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I've been using the paid version of SwiftKey for a couple years on my epic 4g, also tested the flow beta on my note 2 when I migrated over. On the Note I prefer Swype, I feel it's more intuitive, and its accuracy is better hence it's faster. I tried the recent SwiftKey update on the paid version that now includes flow, but I still feel it's not as fluid or accurate as Swype. I get 3 times the amount of errors with SwiftKey that SwiftKey creates that I don't get with Swype. I could care less about which one looks better. I prefer functionality over looks.
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I like the numbers on top, without holding the keys, and hand writing compatibilities with S Pen on the Samsung keyboard. I love the arrow keys and ten keyboard on the SwiftKey.
When it comes between Swype keyboard and SwiftKey keyboard I would choose SwiftKey. SwiftKey is better in choosing the right words and has more features than Swype.
The only thing I would like to see in SwiftKey keyboard is numbers on top, without holding the keys, and hand writing compatibilities with S Pen. Then SwiftKey would be the most perfect keyboard.
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JaguarXT said:
I like the numbers on top, without holding the keys, and hand writing compatibilities with S Pen on the Samsung keyboard. I love the arrow keys and ten keyboard on the SwiftKey.
When it comes between Swype keyboard and SwiftKey keyboard I would choose SwiftKey. SwiftKey is better in choosing the right words and has more features than Swype.
The only thing I would like to see in SwiftKey keyboard is numbers on top, without holding the keys, and hand writing compatibilities with S Pen. Then SwiftKey would be the most perfect keyboard.
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Kii keyboard has the swype like functions, plus the top number keys and a great user dictionary. At the end of the day, it's my daily driver. Ymmv.
I like the stock Samsung keyboard. It has the swype feature.. Why download another app that does essentially the same thing?
I love the way the new keyboard works on bb10 I was wondering if there is any keyboard like that for android, I'm using SwiftKey at the moment just looking for options
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jgalan14 said:
I love the way the new keyboard works on bb10 I was wondering if there is any keyboard like that for android, I'm using SwiftKey at the moment just looking for options
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You do now the keyboard is basically SwiftKey right with a different skin
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You do now the keyboard is basically SwiftKey right with a different skin
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Ummm I don't think so. For starters BB10 offers more predictions. Second, the key sizes are all different. Third, there's no swipe up to select predictions in SwiftKey.
They're similar because they're just soft keyboards but they do have features that set each other apart.
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Ummm I don't think so. For starters BB10 offers more predictions. Second, the key sizes are all different. Third, there's no swipe up to select predictions in SwiftKey.
They're similar because they're just soft keyboards but they do have features that set each other apart.
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BlackBerry does use Swiftkeys keyboard. Its based off swiftkey, however it is modified by BB for their use, themed, predictions, etc.
That said, its a kick a$$ keyboard, and would love to have it on my N4
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BlackBerry does use Swiftkeys keyboard. Its based off swiftkey, however it is modified by BB for their use, themed, predictions, etc.
That said, its a kick a$$ keyboard, and would love to have it on my N4
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I want it too!
Koraboros said:
Ummm I don't think so. For starters BB10 offers more predictions. Second, the key sizes are all different. Third, there's no swipe up to select predictions in SwiftKey.
They're similar because they're just soft keyboards but they do have features that set each other apart.
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its swiftkey tech under the hood
The grass on the other side is always greener
I want that keyboard key press sound!