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What's You Favorite Android Keyboard?...
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RedneckDroid
Newbie
Swype has to be my favorite. It makes me feel lazy now when I type on a keyboard because I ACTUALLY have to pick my fingers up..what is this the stone age!?!
Colchicine
Android Expert
I use Swype 99% of the time.
I tried really hard to do 8pen, although I could do it well enough to have fun with it, I wasn't fast enough to justify using it.
I tried really hard to do 8pen, although I could do it well enough to have fun with it, I wasn't fast enough to justify using it.
nyydynasty
Android Expert
used to be swype but lately, I've been using FlexT9.
ninja_reject
Android Enthusiast
I switch a lot, HTC stock, better keyboard 8, open wnn flick support or multling for Japanese, and swiftkey. I have to switch, sometimes with certain apps, my keyboard won't do any auto-correct! It'll work for one of my keyboards, but not another, and there's no rhyme or reason to which will work.
Sokudo Ningyou
Well-Known Member
FlexT9 right now. It's nice to have all those different input options in one app.
FlexT9. The Swype-like recognition is good, and the speech recognition is fabulous; much better than Google's. I can dictate a paragraph of a few sentences (as a single dictation) and then only need to make a few manual corrections.
I do wish that FlexT9 was as good as Swype with regards to the mechanics of fixing errors.
I do wish that FlexT9 was as good as Swype with regards to the mechanics of fixing errors.
I've used Swype, SlideIT, and FlexT9 and have settled for the moment on FlexT9. I really prefer the suggestion bar to the pop-up style suggestions in Swype, and it's nice not having to squiggle for double letters and swoop down for the apostrophe in contractions. I do miss the numeric and cursor control keypads that Swype has, though.
I also use Hacker's Keyboard with ConnectBot for SSH, since it allows input of control characters and ESC without a trackball, which my current phone does not have. It works quite well, but the keys are too small for use on a regular basis.
Finally, I also use Inserty to facilitate entering frequently-used difficult-to-type phrases like my email address and passwords, as well as things like the current date and time.
If I add any more keyboards to my phone, my "input method" pop-up won't all fit on one screen any more!
I also use Hacker's Keyboard with ConnectBot for SSH, since it allows input of control characters and ESC without a trackball, which my current phone does not have. It works quite well, but the keys are too small for use on a regular basis.
Finally, I also use Inserty to facilitate entering frequently-used difficult-to-type phrases like my email address and passwords, as well as things like the current date and time.
If I add any more keyboards to my phone, my "input method" pop-up won't all fit on one screen any more!
Tre Lawrence
Android Expert
Still use Swype, but my current favorite is Gingerbread kb.
Switched from Swype to FlexT9 as well.
I think when you have to tap out a word instead of swyping it, the FlexT9 keyboard is so much better than Swype.
When you miss a mistake with FlexT9 though, you can't click on the word and then pull up alternates, like swype. You have to delete and re-swipe it.
I'm still going back and forth, but been using FlexT9 mostly.
I'm hoping one of the 2 is going to have a killer update that winds up putting it ahead for good.
I also hate how both save tapped out words automatically in the dictionary. I wind up with hmmmm and awwww and things like that in my dictionary. I think though with FlexT9 those come up a lot less in the word choice windows. I'm just thinking now how that doesn't seem to bother me as much on FlexT9 as on Swype.
Colchicine
Android Expert
Thanks for the recommendations of the FlexT9. I've been a Dragon Naturally Speaking user for 8 years now and this is made by the same company (Nuance). Sometimes I just need to tap the keyboard, so this would be great.
I'm a longtime NaturallySpeaking user as well. In a post above, I mentioned dictating a paragraph; as in NaturallySpeaking, this works best if you explicitly dictate your punctuation when dictating to FlexT9. E.g. (quoting Churchill):
From now on comma ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put period
