SwiftKey is such a mindblowing update over regular keyboards. It's really sad whenever I have to type on an iOS device coming from my android phone. If apple wants to be all apple about it they could just force companies that make alternate keyboards to adhere to stricter design specs.
The iOS keyboard still has nothing like it on the Android side.
I just checked there's 6 pages of settings.
Yeah with like 1 or 2 lines each. It doesn't add up to much honestly. You can't really do much with the keyboard other than change themes. Many other keyboards have FAR more settings. Smart Keyboard Pro, Better Keyboard, Ai Keyboard, Fleksy, etc.
Moreover, Languages doesn't really count as a settings menu. That doesn't really change the typing experience. Theme & Layout is only visuals, and so that leaves sound & vibration, input methods and advanced as actual settings you can tweak. That's freaking it. It's the same settings practically from 2010, with maybe only an improvement in that we can choose key size now. You can't choose no space after picking. Double space = period like every other keyboard? Like I said, they're not interested in letting you choose any features and are more interested in making you type their way. That's it.
Hold a prediction to remove it from your predictions?
Swiftkey's power is in predictions. No other keyboard predicts login emails, usernames, URLs as well as Swiftkey. Yet when you select a prediction, it auto spaces. Doesn't really make sense for forms and URLs right? Maybe an option to disable space after picking like some other keyboards have would be nice?
That option is in the preferences actually.
where?
The numbers are long presses on the top row, barely takes more time to type them. You can adjust the length of long press.
That's one way to input numbers, but it's far faster to hit the numkey and switch over and type my address or zip code for example. My point was that every single standard keyboard uses a numrow format. If you like numpad, that's fine, but shouldn't they offer a choice at least? My gripe with these keyboards are that they're more interested in changing the way you type rather than to build off of a familiar platform.
My android device is almost 2 generations behind and lightning fast. This may have been a concern 5 years ago but androids that I've used lately are actually faster than iOS. My gf has an iphone4, which is almost unusably slow. So you see, fast iphone = fast experience, fast android = fast experience, slow phone = bloated and slow.
I have a Droid 1, Nexus S, GS2, GS3, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and honestly other than the Nexus 4 and 5, the rest are slow as hell. I've owned two iPod Touches, a 3GS and an iPhone 5, and I can tell you that only at the Nexus 4 was Android even relatively competitive in terms of device speed. If anything Apple shot itself in the foot with iOS7 because now my iPhone 5 is slower (only slightly) than my Nexus 4 despite doing a full factory reset.
Web browsing on Chrome is still slow, and there's a handful of apps that are laggy on Android such as the stock Messaging app, Google Voice, etc. None of those run at 60 fps on my Nexus 5.
Don't get me wrong, I love Android and I'd buy another one, but the keyboard has been quite disappointing so far, and even the alternatives are meh.
In many ways I applaud the way Swiftkey is integrated in iOS. It builds on the same layout of the iOS keyboard but adds in prediction. To me that's how they should've approached Android. They don't need the exact same layout, but they shouldn't have changed so many basic typing features that's STANDARD across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BB. They should've taken a standard layout, standard keyboard features and worked on upping the prediction and autocorrection. If they wanted to add numrow, that should've been an option, etc.
