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Anyone load up this leaked .apk from GOOGLE?

I didn't think it would load up unless I was rooted,but, it did,& loaded up over the ANDROID 4.1.1 stock keyboard.Only reason I tried it out was to test the swipe/gesture typing.
It seems accurate enough, but,I'm not a big fan of SWYPE-STYLE keyboards, so,it's back to SWIFTKEY 3 for me.

BTW,as I stated previously, this copies over the stock ANDROID 4.1.1 keyboard, so,if remaining stock is a concern in fear of not receiving future updates, then you may want to skip this until it is officially available.
I myself am just going to re-flash the SPRINT JELLY BEAN upgrade ,which will restore my phone back to stock.


EDIT:
This .apk(ANDROID 4.2 KEYBOARD) side loads just like any other user application & does not overwrite any other applications.
ie: SWIFTKEY 3, SWYPE, etc....

Sorry for the misinformation, no harm in leaving this application loaded up, in regards to affecting the status of a clean stock/unrooted O/S.
 
Once I got the S3 I couldn't figure out why the keyboard sucked so hard. It looked like Swype, acted like Swype but it had no microphone for talk to text and it absolutely refused to spell simple words. Once I realized that it was T9 Trace that crap was 86ed, found the new Swype beta and downloaded it. To my wonderful surprise it was way better than it was on my stock captivate. I love it.
 
was on touchpal, but it seemed to be getting worse with its word guessing, so now on swype beta 1.3
 
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