is there anyway to know which third party keyboards are safe to use?
Is like a neon one but the warning message when setting it makes me nervous about the possibility of it recording and sending my input.
I'm pretty sure that pops up for most if not all third party keyboards. Stick with the big names and you should be fine. I personally use Swiftkey.
Go with the famous ones: swiftkey, touchpal,slide it or the google stock keyboard
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Just curious to know what keyboard you guys all use?
I use SwiftKey.
Swiftkey
Maybe would have been better with a poll.
Stock Android Gingerbread keyboard, the "Samsung" keyboard is a joke compared to the stock experience. Sometimes Swype, but not usually.
stock ginger keyboard here.
The awesome thing that is Swiftkey, of course !
Stock Samsung.
Swiftkey
10 Characters
SwiftKey all the way.
Tried a few and I have finally settled on SwiftKey, I used a Desire Z for 4 months so its gonna take some time getting used to a virtual keyboard again but the extra width and bigger keys is a huge help.
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Just curious to know what keyboard you guys all use?
I use SwiftKey.
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Swype
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By the way millions of regular users use what is selected by default which means samsung keypad or swype.
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Smart Keyboard
. . . from my HTC Inspire
smart keyboard pro
the best out there!
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smart keyboard pro
the best out there!
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Stock Gingerbread from the Market.
I'm using the HTC_IME mod for the Desire. Used it for months and I prefer it to the installed keyboards.
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I'm using the HTC_IME mod for the Desire. Used it for months and I prefer it to the installed keyboards.
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How did you get this working, I tried just copying the one over from my old HD2 mod but then cancelled when it said touch input will replace system settings or something along those lines and now get force closes even though I've removed it. Can this work alongside the other keyboards or do you have to replace? If replace, how can I backup the standard please?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks.
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How did you get this working, I tried just copying the one over from my old HD2 mod but then cancelled when it said touch input will replace system settings or something along those lines and now get force closes even though I've removed it. Can this work alongside the other keyboards or do you have to replace? If replace, how can I backup the standard please?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks.
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The HTC MOD one is really good, i used it with my Galaxy S. you need this version (which i am using): .
Just a little test for the various keyboards out there, over the many months since i first got my first Galaxy s, i have tried many many different keyboards and none, except the HTC MOD one, would allow you to enter anything into the drop down 'search this thread' box on xda's full site which i always found strange, granted, you have to be in landscape and it takes a couple of touches of the box to allow you type anything, but no other keyboard i have tried will allow you to do this! I challenge anyone to find a keyboard that does.
All of you using the Swiftkey or Smartkeyboard....
I tried using both. But in the email composition application neither of those keyboards shows word suggestions...i.e. in Swift key the word prediction bar appears in all apps except email compose mode. In Smartkeyboard, the word suggestions appear in all apps except in email compose mode.
Am I the only one facing this issue???
Please help. Because of the above I am having to live with the default Samsung Keyboard.
Thanks so much for the HTC keyboard link. The stock keyboard is very frustrating. I'd tried lots of others but all had their problems. This has improved my phone tremendously!
is there a way to create and save some pre-defined texts for messaging?
sorry, came from the htc phones and they had this feature and is pretty cool, especially when you are driving and you can just click on some pre-defined texts.
thank you in advance.
coming from a blackberry would be nice to see too. one of the things i miss from their autotext.
I know there are 3rd party keyboards that add this functionality, my problem is I'd like to use say swiftkey X or swype and have something else provide this functionality.
And its not like i just want an autocorrect for typical spelling mistakes. I had shortcuts on blackberry like calloff <space> was a shortcut for "Please call me at the office (555) 123-4567" etc.
So my thinking is I'd add calloff as a dictionary word in the swype dictionary and then this other app would recognize that as a known [macro/shortcut] and replace it with the longer text.
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coming from a blackberry would be nice to see too. one of the things i miss from their autotext.
I know there are 3rd party keyboards that add this functionality, my problem is I'd like to use say swiftkey X or swype and have something else provide this functionality.
And its not like i just want an autocorrect for typical spelling mistakes. I had shortcuts on blackberry like calloff <space> was a shortcut for "Please call me at the office (555) 123-4567" etc.
So my thinking is I'd add calloff as a dictionary word in the swype dictionary and then this other app would recognize that as a known [macro/shortcut] and replace it with the longer text.
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i just found a couple good ones - handcent and go sms pro. i couldn't edit the pre-defined messages with handcent but 'go sms pro' i could and I'll go with go sms pro.
good luck.
Settings/ Call/ Set reject messages..
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Is it possible to use the Swiftkey keyboard and us Google voice to text at the same time. I like the Swiftkey word correction and keyboard style but I personally. Hate its voice to text
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not related to swiftkey and google voice, but swype with dragon go is pretty sweet.
Only solution I've found when using an alternative keyboard is to pull down the notification when in a text input area. You should see a keyboard icon and "Select Input Method" in the Notifications.
This only lets you select the Google Voice Typing for that one instance.
I don't understand why the alternative keyboards don't allow you to select the default voice input, but it is what it is...
There's gotta be a better way but I'm having the same problem too. I love swiftkey but hate its voice to text. I've been looking for this for a couple days and posted on Android Central a out it but nothing so far. I'll come back if I find something.
Has anyone found a fix to this? I would also like to know the solution. I enjoy SwiftKey's keyboard, however, I prefer the voice-to-text feature found on Android's default keyboard...
You may want to check out AI type Keyboard Plus (similar to Swiftkey keyboard) as it uses the ICS voice to text feature as default
Do you use that? And if so have you used swiftkey 3?
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Yes I use both and honestly I think the AI plus keyboard is just as good as Swiftkey. The one thing I really like about it is that the predictions bar works in almost every app, unlike Swiftkey, which only works ,at least for me, in certain apps.
There is a free version if you want to try it out
Cool I'm gonna try it out tonight. I live swiftkey but I want to use the vtt more and doing like theirs. Google definitely made theirs much better on ics.
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Vote here and they will hopefully integrate voice typing from ICS/JB
i used slideit on my original inc (like it better than swype and the other keyboard apps).
since switching to the 4g i've been using the stock htc keyboard with swype enabled. it's been working fine for me so i have not installed any keyboard app.
yesterday i saw this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058856
after a day's use this is a great keyboard app! more responsive and configurable than the stock keyboard... combines features of apps such as swiftkey, swype, etc...
my biggest concern so far is that it calls home for updates. i have not found a way to stop that. i don't like my apps updating unless i manually allow it. i don't know if there's something i can do to stop this or not.
I installed Kii from the Playstore and it updates through there. There's been about 3 updates in the last week but I keep going back to the swiftkey flow beta it's been the best I've used.
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i used slideit on my original inc (like it better than swype and the other keyboard apps).
since switching to the 4g i've been using the stock htc keyboard with swype enabled. it's been working fine for me so i have not installed any keyboard app.
yesterday i saw this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058856
after a day's use this is a great keyboard app! more responsive and configurable than the stock keyboard... combines features of apps such as swiftkey, swype, etc...
my biggest concern so far is that it calls home for updates. i have not found a way to stop that. i don't like my apps updating unless i manually allow it. i don't know if there's something i can do to stop this or not.
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This is a really nice keyboard replacement. There are a couple of features that I like on Swype better tho. Easy punctuation by sliding from the character to the space bar and easy dictionary input. If there's there's an easy way to do this with kii I haven't found it yet
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What keyboards have a clipboard feature like the stock note. I found touchpal does. But it has ads that pop up and one is a add on the lock screen when it awakes. I'd buy it if it came ad free.
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AFAIK. Samsung Clipboard UI service is always available with other 3rd party keyboards as well. It shows up with long press on any text field. I'm using it with Chrooma Keyboard (see attached).