The keyboard is awkward after switching from a iPhone, I found a iPhone keyboard skin but since the screen is small it won't put the keyboard on there. The numbers is in a odd spot to get to. Is there any other keyboards for the Aria?
i see two on page one of this forum and another on page 3.....
Swype is okay but takes some getting used to IMHO. I've been using Swiftkey beta and liking it.
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My favorite is SwiftKey keyboard It's free in the market It's very good coming from a iphone my self. Its every bit as good as the iphones keyboard
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The HTC IME mod keyboard is pretty good as well and you can make your own skins for it.
http://www.gimpsta.com
I'm digging Swiftkey. Tried Swype and like SK better. I tried typing as fast as I could in landscape mode and it got all the words right. In portrait it was so-so... but that is expected (and heck, I wanted a smaller phone, so I asked for less keyboard real estate).
I just saw this while searching for something new because swype stopped working as of today. First time I ever heard of SwiftKey and I really like it! Pleasantly surprised.
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How do u use the skin ucreate?
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You have to drop it onto your SD card and then use a file manager to navigate to your SD card and install it.
Once installed you go into settings then languages and keyboards and select the keyboard you just installed.
Once selected long tap in an input field and choose input method, choose your new keyboard and you are done.
pgill34 said:
My favorite is SwiftKey keyboard It's free in the market It's very good coming from a iphone my self. Its every bit as good as the iphones keyboard
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Downloaded the swiftkey beta, used if for a day, liked it so much I took them up on their offer of a reduced price to buy the non-beta version on initial release(today). Good stuff and it was only US $.94.
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+1 for Swiftkey. In my mind it combines the best of a traditional touch keyboard and Swype.
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+1 for Swiftkey. In my mind it combines the best of a traditional touch keyboard and Swype.
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+1 for SwiftKey here, too.
regentswift said:
+1 for SwiftKey here, too.
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Cool, thanks for this info too, I am going to try SwiftKey later on.
Am I crazy, I liked the keyboard on 2.1 over 2.2 or are they the same, just a different color?
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Its the best keyboard I have used so far. Ive used the htc stock one, swype, droid x multitouch, and swiftkey is the best for texting. Its in the marketplace right now.
I might check this out. How does it work with Fat Fingers?
I just gave this a shot. It's definitely better than the stock keyboard for texting, the word prediction is great. However, my speed/accuracy easily surpass this with Swype, maybe it's just me (Slow with this/Fast with Swype?). But still a great find for those that don't have/want Swype.
In response to the fat fingers question, the letters are slightly narrower than the stock HTC keyboard, although the predicted words are on quite large buttons that makes them easy to select.
I just can't do swype. I need to look at the screen to find the letters and with the aria the screen is to small.
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I installed and tried this out this morning. It's scarily accurate at predicting the next word (sometimes it knows what I want to say even before I do).
I'll stick to SWYPE for portrait mode texting (getting to be fairly fast and accurate now), but for landscape I'm definitely going to try out SwiftKey a bit more.
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Yeah this application is pretty awesome at predicting text, and is my preferred keyboard at the moment.
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I'll stick to SWYPE for portrait mode texting (getting to be fairly fast and accurate now), but for landscape I'm definitely going to try out SwiftKey a bit more.
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This is a good idea, I may try this as well for the same reasons.
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i actually prefer slideIT to swype...i installed swiftkey and plan on trying it out for a day or two, but slideit i type crazy fast with for the most part
not to be "that guy" but I personally have alot better luck with the droidx keyboard posted over the stock sense one and swiftkey
panda703 said:
not to be "that guy" but I personally have alot better luck with the droidx keyboard posted over the stock sense one and swiftkey
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After further use i have to say that the droid x keyboard is faster but not by alot
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i'd like to try droidx keyboard, where can i get an apk? i didnt see it in the market.
domin8 said:
i'd like to try droidx keyboard, where can i get an apk? i didnt see it in the market.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723289
I've been looking for a keyboard better than aosp and swipe (i hate swype so much.....). On both of those i make typo's constantly and the autocorrect sucks hard... Please let me know what keyboard you use and what you think about it.
I use swype because it's the poo, but I hear swiftkey is good...
love swiftkey!!
I second SwiftKey! Try the trial
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I use SwiftKey as well, it's pretty good. I like it more than Swype I think.
I have used the android, swype, samsung, gingerbread, droidx, bestkb, swiftkey and smart kb.
Swype is the best for one handed typing. DroidX is decent, but lacks many options. Swiftkey has the best predictive text for the lazy typer. IMO, smartkb is the best for 2 handed typing, plus its options/settings are usable and not in excess.
All the others are a waste of time.
Skywalker offers a really nice wp7 keyboard. Doubled my typing speed. Its in rom manager in his modify existing rom folder
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I personally like the HTC keyboard found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
I keep wanting to like swiftkey, but don't see the appeal. Smart Keyboard Pro wins my vote.
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I keep wanting to like swiftkey, but don't see the appeal. Smart Keyboard Pro wins my vote.
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I'll second this. SKP is probably the best I've used. The WP7 one is really damn good too - but didn't have haptic feedback last I tried it.
IME, swype is very good and I have used it more than anything else. If you rely on prediction I'd say Swiftkey. If you manually hit every key in landscape, smart key pro. In portrait its hard to beat swype though. Its nice to have several to choose from I think I have 5 installed now myself but I mainly rotate between the 3 aforementioned
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IME, swype is very good and I have used it more than anything else. If you rely on prediction I'd say Swiftkey. If you manually hit every key in landscape, smart key pro. In portrait its hard to beat swype though. Its nice to have several to choose from I think I have 5 installed now myself but I mainly rotate between the 3 aforementioned
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saps has returned to xda!!!
Thanks for all the suggestions! i cant believe i didnt know about all of these. So far im loving the wm7 keyboard... it really does increase my typing speed by a ton, but the no haptic feedback is annoying.
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Thanks for all the suggestions! i cant believe i didnt know about all of these. So far im loving the wm7 keyboard... it really does increase my typing speed by a ton, but the no haptic feedback is annoying.
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where did you get the wp7 keyboard?
I like better keyboard 8 alot myself.... I like how you can adjust height and width of the keys ....
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italysfinest327 said:
where did you get the wp7 keyboard?
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rom manager. in skywalkers stuff
davidstre said:
rom manager. in skywalkers stuff
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none of his keyboards have haptyc feed back for either. i like the win7 kb, but i cant stand not having feedback.
So this is my first phone that doesn't have a physical keyboard and I'm having some trouble. I came from both Droid one and two and the LG touch so I have always had a physical keyboard and now without one I'm somewhat lost. So please anyone with a keyboard app recommendation please speak up!
P.s. I have big hands and tend to hit the wrong key because of that.
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Swift key. It learns as you type. Once using if for a while it predicts almost everything you are going to type
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I use flext9 because you can swipe the keyboard or use the keys normally, way smoother than swype IMO.
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swype http://swype.com
Definitely swift key! It's so good at predicting your words that some times it feels like it's reading your mind.
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I've been using the gingerbread keyboard found in market. I find it fast and accurate.
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Definitely swift key! It's so good at predicting your words that some times it feels like it's reading your mind.
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+1 for swift key.
Well I already had swift key from it being the free app of the day so I loaded it up and started using it again and so far so good everything is at least better than the stock htc keyboard so I'm at least happy about that.
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i really like and use smart keyboard pro, love the skins you can put on it and it just does what it needs to do for me
better keyboard ftw
syu78 said:
I've been using the gingerbread keyboard found in market. I find it fast and accurate.
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+1 been using this one as well and I love it. its called "keyboard from android 2.3 +" in the market. when installed it shows up as "gingerbread keyboard"
+1 for flex t9 if you like swyping or swift key for just regular keyboard use. Although t9 can do both, just doesn't predict.
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+1 been using this one as well and I love it. its called "keyboard from android 2.3 +" in the market. when installed it shows up as "gingerbread keyboard"
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+2.. I use the paid version, so I can bring up the directional arrows as needed. At $0.99 it isn't bad.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moo.android.inputmethod.latin&feature=order_history
+3 lol paid too, deff worth it.
Keyboard from Gingerbread 2.3
There's a free and paid version. Best keyboard available.
+4 for gingerbread keyboard
i love how fast it is
I've also been using the gingerbread keyboard from the market for a while now (even back on my Droid X) and I love it.
I have used swype, swift and the GB keyboard.
For texting, landscape or portrait they are great.
The problem is for emails. Once you lay the phone over to landscape and start to type an email, the kbd takes up the whole screen. Is there a way to shrink the keyboard say 20% or so?
I got Gingerbread, the paid one
I had the G2, and Swype sucks on a bigger screen in comparison, not to mention Thunderbolt doesn't even come with it. I downloaded it and said wtf is this. Idk if its the screen or just not being pre-installed
I use the HTC_IME keyboard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
If you use anything other than the stock keyboard, you have to try this:
A.I.Type Keyboard Beta (search the Market for "A.I.type").
I've used Swype since the first beta came out and this blows Swype away. It's faster and more accurate. It reads your mind!
Not only does the word you're looking for appear after you enter only one or two letters, it also autocorrects misspellings.
Try it, you'll love it!
So its Swiftkey?
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So its Swiftkey?
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It predicts similar to Swiftkey, but better. And it's free!
You can read more about A.I.Type Keyboard here.
Its pretty awesome. I love this keyboard.
Definitely worth a shot.
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I've been happily using a Galaxy S3 for the last two years, just got the Note 4. Pretty happy so far with everything except the size is a little big and tricky to use one handed...anyways....
I've been using Swype for 2 years, and I like the quick access to punctuation, copy& paste, etc. I know the default Samsung keyboard has swipe but it's not quite the same.
Am I the only one using Swype? What keyboard are you using?
I'd love to get the reliable performance, prediction, and punctuation of Swype but gain themes.
SwiftKey
The default is board is OK
My normal is SwiftKey
I also use google keyboard it's good as well
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Google keyboard. It's a good keyboard. I like the material design themes that are included.
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There are so many themed key boards http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387785
This thread is full of them customized from the Google keyboard.
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I didn't like swift for some reason. Can't remember why ?
That link above, does it show previews of the available themes anywhere.?
SwiftKey for years for me.
The new Google keyboard is by far the best in terms of accuracy and speed. Plus the lollipop theme is awesome
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How are you guys theming swift? does it support themes now? has it been that long since I used it? I've been using Swype which has no "themes" just a few color options. I'm just so comfortable with the way it works I tried another one called iKeyboard that use Go Keyboard themes (which are limitless) and its "OK"............just having a hard time cutting the strings from Swype I guess.
Yeah it recently started getting themes. I like the look that they are bringing now
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