Stuntman
Android Expert
After using SwiftKey again for almost a week, I have decide to stay with it. I'm certainly not making the same amount of keying errors as I did over a year ago and that is with the same layout. Maybe I'm just better at using touch screen keyboards now than a year ago when I decided to switch to Kii.
I do find that I am typing better than with Kii. SwiftKey's better auto-correct and text prediction enables me to type better and more accurately than Kii now. SwiftKey's predictions are also context sensitive. It is able to determine whether I want "well" or "we'll" based on what part of the sentence I am typing. This is particularly important when using gesture typing where it is normally not so convenient to type punctuation.
About a year ago when I switched from SwiftKey to Kii, my issue with SwiftKey was that I kept making certain keying errors. I kept hitting the space bar by accident when typing a letter in the bottom row. I also kept hitting the shift key when wanting to type the letter A. For whatever reason, I found that I wasn't constantly doing that anymore this time around.
Another thing I didn't like about SwiftKey before what that when using Flow, it would predict the next word after finishing a word. I didn't figure out back then that I could just press backspace to see other possible predictions of the word I just typed. Kii and Swype didn't do that. I wanted SwiftKey to behave the same. Since one of SwiftKey's greatest strengths is word prediction, it naturally defaulted to predict the next word. Now that I figured out the backspace, this is no longer a concern.
SwiftKey still seems to lag a bit compared to Kii. Kii is just smoother and faster when typing. Also, SwiftKey is slower when switching between portrait and landscape. There is a delay of a couple of seconds before the keyboard for the new orientation is redrawn. Kii switches orientations noticeably faster. So far, I this lag is tolerable. I usually switch the orienation to landscape before I start typing. I normally switch to landscape and then tap on the text entry area of the screen which then brings up the keyboard. It is rare that I would start typing and then switch orientations. I usually notice this lag after I finish typing. I would tap on the send/post button and then switch orientations back to portrait when the keyboard is still on the screen. When it switches to portrait, it takes a couple of seconds to redraw the keyboard. I normally dismiss the keyboard then since I am no longer typing.
Over the past year, I did try out SwiftKey a few times after some updates. I never liked it then. For whatever reason I like it now even though the keyboard layout hasn't changed. Go figure.
I do find that I am typing better than with Kii. SwiftKey's better auto-correct and text prediction enables me to type better and more accurately than Kii now. SwiftKey's predictions are also context sensitive. It is able to determine whether I want "well" or "we'll" based on what part of the sentence I am typing. This is particularly important when using gesture typing where it is normally not so convenient to type punctuation.
About a year ago when I switched from SwiftKey to Kii, my issue with SwiftKey was that I kept making certain keying errors. I kept hitting the space bar by accident when typing a letter in the bottom row. I also kept hitting the shift key when wanting to type the letter A. For whatever reason, I found that I wasn't constantly doing that anymore this time around.
Another thing I didn't like about SwiftKey before what that when using Flow, it would predict the next word after finishing a word. I didn't figure out back then that I could just press backspace to see other possible predictions of the word I just typed. Kii and Swype didn't do that. I wanted SwiftKey to behave the same. Since one of SwiftKey's greatest strengths is word prediction, it naturally defaulted to predict the next word. Now that I figured out the backspace, this is no longer a concern.
SwiftKey still seems to lag a bit compared to Kii. Kii is just smoother and faster when typing. Also, SwiftKey is slower when switching between portrait and landscape. There is a delay of a couple of seconds before the keyboard for the new orientation is redrawn. Kii switches orientations noticeably faster. So far, I this lag is tolerable. I usually switch the orienation to landscape before I start typing. I normally switch to landscape and then tap on the text entry area of the screen which then brings up the keyboard. It is rare that I would start typing and then switch orientations. I usually notice this lag after I finish typing. I would tap on the send/post button and then switch orientations back to portrait when the keyboard is still on the screen. When it switches to portrait, it takes a couple of seconds to redraw the keyboard. I normally dismiss the keyboard then since I am no longer typing.
Over the past year, I did try out SwiftKey a few times after some updates. I never liked it then. For whatever reason I like it now even though the keyboard layout hasn't changed. Go figure.
