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iOS Custom Keyboard Megathread

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I love Flesky keyboard. Loved it on my Galaxy S5. On my iPhone 6 Plus, not so much. I only have 2 keyboards enabled. Flesky and a GIF keyboard. Sometimes Flesky will crash and bring up the stock Apple keyboard which I do not have enables. This happens quite often. A few times an hour. It's annoying. Hopefully Flesky or Apple (whoever is at fault for this bug) fixes this soon.
 
Out of interest:

1) Does the default keyboard offer "swype" input?

2) I have noticed on a friends device that the letters remain capital, even though the person is typing not capital. Is this a setting or just the way the default keyboard is? If the latter, how do you know if the letters you are typing will be capital or not?

Thanks :D
 
thetrainman said:
Out of interest:

1) Does the default keyboard offer "swype" input?

2) I have noticed on a friends device that the letters remain capital, even though the person is typing not capital. Is this a setting or just the way the default keyboard is? If the latter, how do you know if the letters you are typing will be capital or not?
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1) No the default Apple keyboard doesn't offer swiping/gesture features. For that you need to check the start post of this topic where many options are indicated such as Swype, Path Input, Touchpal.

2) If you start typing a sentence then the Apple keyboard will start with a capital letter but after that it should switch automatically to a non-capital letter. In all other cases you need to press the Shift key manually to get a capital letter.
 
Significant Fleksy update released today; many additional themes (meh), keyboard extensions (nice, especially the numbers row and spacebar cursor control), resizable keyboard control, and a press-and-hold period key for quick punctuation entry.

I've set aside TouchPal and am now using Nintype (with stripped-down visual effects) and Fleksy. Nintype's hybrid tap/swipe entry method takes getting used to but is amazingly fast after a week or so, and its cursor control and ability to correct previously-typed words can't be beat. And I'm continually impressed by Fleksy's ability to autocorrect typos, including two-word fixes (e.g., "twiwprds" -> "two words").
 
Question

If I change swiftkey out for another keyboard, like I mean delete the keyboard off the settings part, does that also delete the words it's learnt? So I use it again does it have to learn from scratch?
 
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Does anyone use path keyboard? I'm trying it now but it has no next word prediction and many times while i swipe the correct word it doesn't know and I need to select the correct word. I'm kind of thinking touchpal works better as it seems to predict the words much better. Anyone care to comment?
 
Jessica Lares said:
It tells me that they are tired of people commenting on issues and want five stars and downloads so desperately they'll try and gain marketshare in a segment that doesn't matter. They are cheapening their brand.

Fleksy is doing the same thing.
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Good point, but why Frozen? That just seems an odd choice to me...
 
I've been having problems with custom keyboard crashes since the release of iOS 8. I'd love to use Fleksy regularly, but it crashes multiple times per hour on my Air 2 on 8.1.2.

Has anyone had exp with doing a fresh install of iOS and seeing if that helps the keyboard issue? if it gets the keyboard more consistent without these frequent crashes, I'd actually do it.
 
dahauss said:
Does anyone use path keyboard? I'm trying it now but it has no next word prediction and many times while i swipe the correct word it doesn't know and I need to select the correct word. I'm kind of thinking touchpal works better as it seems to predict the words much better. Anyone care to comment?
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That's my issue with Path Input. I love the layout on the iPad with the alpha and numeric keyboards and the fact you don't need to swipe as far because the keyboard is slightly smaller. The word prediction is awful though. You get a list of about 10 words and the one you want is rarely the one that is highlighted so it slows you down as you need to watch carefully which word is getting populated. Frustrating because it has so much potential.
 
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I'm using it now and it seems that I still have to select words from the list. Not sue if I like this better then other keyboards. Does anyone know if this automatically learns words?

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I'm thinking touchpal is better in terms of the swipe feature but that keyboard crashes some of the apps I use. I do wish path would get better in terms of the swipe feature and also offer next word prediction and learn the way you type.

Is there any reason to use path over swype or touchpal on the iPhone? Also it looks like path doesn't learn as you swipe as it's not remembering words I type such as touchpal.
 
Path doesn't appear to learn as you swipe or even pick the correct word in context. The word I'm looking for is always in the list but isn't selected automatically very often. If this was tidied up it would be my choice of keyboard for the iPad.
 
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They say it learns if you type the word and press space. I'm trying to decide if This is worth what I paid as it's not very precise.
 
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Any keyboard that shifts the letter case on keys?

Yesterday I upgraded our iPad minis to iOS 8, hoping to finally get a fix for something that causes so much confusion to my wife and my mother:

Are there any fairly stock looking keyboards that shift the letter case on the keys to go with the Shift mode?

That is, show UPPERCASE if in shift mode, and lowercase if not.

(It just blows me away that Apple's keyboard does not do this. Especially after Jobs' original spiel about how physical keyboards can't change, but onscreen ones can. I can only think that Jobs insisted on the keys staying uppercase, as an homage to the original Apple II limitation of uppercase video display.)

Thank in advance! ( I checked the thread but found no solution yet.)
 
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kdarling said:
Yesterday I upgraded our iPad minis to iOS 8, hoping to finally get a fix for something that causes so much confusion to my wife and my mother:

Are there any fairly stock looking keyboards that shift the letter case on the keys to go with the Shift mode?

That is, show UPPERCASE if in shift mode, and lowercase if not.

(It just blows me away that Apple's keyboard does not do this. Especially after Jobs' original spiel about how physical keyboards can't change, but onscreen ones can. I can only think that Jobs insisted on the keys staying uppercase, as an homage to the original Apple II limitation of uppercase video display.)

Thank in advance! ( I checked the thread but found no solution yet.)
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SwiftKey and Swype changes them. At least on my iPhone.
 
kmpoboy2 said:
SwiftKey and Swype changes them. At least on my iPhone.
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I didn't even consider those, simply because I know my wife and mother would never take the time to learn swyping.

However, those keyboards should also work with regular single finger tip-tapping, right? D'oh!

Let me try one.

Thank you very much!

Edit: I did not know that Swiftkey was a regular keyboard! Thanks again. It's slow to appear, but I like the lowercase a lot.
 
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kdarling said:
I didn't even consider those, simply because I know my wife and mother would never take the time to learn swyping.

However, those keyboards should also work with regular single finger tip-tapping, right? D'oh!

Let me try one.

Thank you very much!

Edit: I did not know that Swiftkey was a regular keyboard! Thanks again. It's slow to appear, but I like the lowercase a lot.
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The only downside is the bug where they fail to appear, specially in the messages app wich you'll have to relaunch to fix it. It's a common problem on iOS with all custom keyboards that Apple has yet to fix. At least for me, it ain't that bad but it is a deal breaker for other people.
 
Oh, I'm pretty impressed with Nintype. Both the peckmode and the regular swipe mode are very responsive. I was really hesitating on whether to get it or not, but Apple has been refunding the stuff I didn't like very recently, so I trusted that I wouldn't have a problem getting a refund if I didn't like it.

Definately feel like it's letting me type faster.

The included note app is very nice too.
 
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