Hi!
I feel the stock Samsung keyboard has potential but the word correction just seems meh (could be due to danish dictionary).
I'd like to see a comparison of the keyboards and what people feel about each one.
Swiftkey
Samsung keyboard (multi touch)
Swype (drawing type keyboard)
HTC_IME (the xda one with online kitchen)
Handcent
Droid X (multi touch)
Currently i feel the HTC_IME is best for me atleast, since it supports danish and it has some added features (XDA). It's slower than the Samsung Keyboard though, probably the multi touch making Samsung faster. I'd like to try Swype or SwiftKey, but danish support seems a while off. Handcent i haven't tried, but as far as i remember it looks alot like the HTC_IME one?
If none of them improves soon, i guess i'll try to code one myself. Swiftkey prediction with multi touch would be pretty awesome
I love the vlingo keyboard, it pwns all the others I've tried.
text using profile: mails/notes/todos/sms, typing rather fast, languages: german & english
HTC_IME, Handcent (is that built into the app?), Vlingo - haven't tried those
Swype
- unique feature: swipe to type
- my favourite; i nearly can type as fast as i can on a real keyboard, which is quite fast
Samsung keyboard (multi touch)
- unique feature: none that i know of
- nice, seems to be a lookalike from the iphone keyboard; works good, just 2 points at once though
- if i want to use multitouch typing while wanting to type as fast as i can i always switch over to this one:
Droid X (multi touch)
- unique feature: multitouch with more than 2 points
- IMHO best multi touch keyboard out there
Swiftkey
- unique feature: text prediction
- useful: using several languages simultaneously (HUGE benefit for me! TouchPal does this as well)
- just installed it while it's in beta, can't say much about it
- using it for just a couple of minutes doesn't reveal much about the real benefit of this keyboard (text prediction)
- looks amazing, i'll definitely use this regularly to see where it goes!
ThickButtons
- unique feature: keyboard-buttons get enlarged when being predicted by the dictionary as possibly the next letter in the current word
- tried this for a couple of text messages, need more time for a thorough test
- runs stable but a bit slow
TouchPal
- seems to be a very good chinese input keyboard, although i'm far from able to confirm that
- useful: using several languages simultaneously (like Swiftkey)
- just testing this for a couple of minutes, seems to be very good!
my wishes :
Swype should implement multi touch support & easy language switch while simultaneously using he built in keyboard - then it's the only keyboard i'll ever need
Swiftkey should come out of beta as soon as it's ready and be as cheap as possible
UPDATE
added Swiftkey & TouchPal
Intratech said:
I love the vlingo keyboard, it pwns all the others I've tried.
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Er really? It's identical to the default Android keyboard, doesn't support multi-touch.
So far, I think the HTC keyboard would rock with multi-touch, but without it it just cannot keep up with fast typing, rendering it useless!
Advantages of default Samsung Keyboard:
- Multi-touch
- Decent text prediction
- Arrow keys appear when you long-press on symbols (big plus)
Disadvantages:
- You can't capitalise random letters in a word!!! (You can't write something like McDonald's for example, because pressing shift will either capitalise ALL letters in the word or the first letter only. This is also painful when you have to type in a username for some app but the text field has prediction enabled.)
- The numbers/symbols layout is dreadful! Seriously, why is the colon on the 2nd page? And why does the last used page open instead of the first one when you press symbols?
Advantages of Droid X keyboard:
- Better multi-touch than Samsung (shift + many keys is possible)
- Much better symbols layout
Disadvantages:
-Auto-capitalisation doesn't work
- No control of the dictionary! And the dictionary has random incorrect words in it like ob and od and im which get substituted when you make a typing mistake.
I'm using the Droid X keyboard right now but desperately looking for something with better dictionary control
Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
INeedYourHelp said:
Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
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Droid X one does
INeedYourHelp said:
Do any of these keyboards have the ability for speech-to-text like the nexus one? I don't see the speaker icon on the samsung keyboards.
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Vlingo does and I can type fast on it without worrying about it missing my letters and the auto correction is good on it.
Robin.B said:
Er really? It's identical to the default Android keyboard, doesn't support multi-touch.
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I don't care about multi touch just about typing fast and accurately.
I like the standard Android keyboard, if only it had multi-touch.
The Samsung keyboard is capable for multi touch? Even if it does the multi touch implementation doesn't seems to her close to the one of Droid X, at least I can't feel it. Also the ptedicion and correction doesn't works well. I'm using an IME called CEDIME which I need the Chinese input, the English keyboard included us even better than the Samsung one.
The Droid X multi touch keyboard works well but the prediction will need some improvement, although by using it more you can add more words to it's dictionary.
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Using Swiftkey Beta here, and other than some curious auto-complete choices, it's brilliant, rather large though...
I love SWYPE, it is SOOO accurate with English... Though I use Vietnamese quiet often to text my Vietnamese friend and can't seem to find Vietname SWYPE Dictionary ... So i'm teaching SWYPE, but its learning fast...
So overall, I love it!
Is there an app to force the use of a certain IME for a given application?
For example I use Swype as my default keyboard, but it is quite annoying to use in the terminal or with ConnectBot.
Is there a way to force the default Android IME to programs like these?
As long as i know there is no way to do this :/
I use swype as my default keyboard too, but when it comes to typing emails, passwords, numbers, terminals, it sucks
/Dev
I think this might be done with Tasks... don't know for sure though.
Hi - so I bought an apple keyboard and it works, well, for the most part at least.
The lack of shortcuts (ctrl+v, etc) makes it very limited for productivity app.
Anyone knows if these could be configured, even manually?
Is there anyway to make the word prediction is active without the auto-completion of the word?
If not, how to activate a third party keyboard after installation?
flupo2000 said:
Is there anyway to make the word prediction is active without the auto-completion of the word?
If not, how to activate a third party keyboard after installation?
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Not that I'm aware of. If you install Google Keyboard (I love it on this phone) or Swiftkey, it will guide you through enabling that specific keyboard upon opening the app, which will be in your app drawer. I don't know how others feel, but IMO, the Sense keyboard is straight up doodoo compared to third party ones.
Does anyone know a mod that will make Swype keyboard use Google instead of dragon dictation. I used to use swype tweaks when xposed was available but since is not I'm looking for a workaround thank you.
if you're using the version of swype that comes with a
touchwiz rom, the microphone button Does open Google voice keyboard.
Yeah I know, was just hoping to use the one I paid for. Thanks though
Just use the google keyboard
Google keyboard. It's a ok keyboard but predictions aren't that good to me. I think swype does it better.
Does anyone know how to theme the included Swype application that already has the Google dictation?
And/or, does anyone know the code to change the dictation from Dragon to Google?
I've successfully added the top number row mod to make it more like the Samsung keyboard but the themes are locked out in smali somewhere.
Either would would be an improvement. I've learned to get by without the voice dictation and use paid version with the added number row. I miss Xposed but what I miss more is the developers sharing code that we could use to make our own mods. Those were some fun threads!
Of all the keyboards I've tried to learn, Swype is still the most accurate for me, by far.