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Fleksy Offers Beta Preview as Keyboard Makers Look Forward to iOS 8

JHankwitz said:
When will Apple display a keyboard representing the proper glyphs? When Caps is not selected, the keys should display lower-case letters. With iOS 7, you can't easily tell if Caps is on or off.
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The all caps keyboard has always been the case in all versions of iOS / iPhoneOS.... I think the font choice makes it more noticeable in iOS 7 but it's always been that way...

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I saw an enterprising Dev on Twitter quickly made his own custom keyboard.

https://twitter.com/Gernot/status/474109218728185856

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DaveMcM76 said:
The all caps keyboard has always been the case in all versions of iOS / iPhoneOS.... I think the font choice makes it more noticeable in iOS 7 but it's always been that way...

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What makes it harder on iOS 7 is that they monkeyed with the colors on the shift/caps lock key. That messes me up all the time.
 
from my experience it's amazing and i type faster and more accurately than any other keyboard. you either don't know how to use it correctly, or "to each is own" huh?

3bs said:
From my experience, it's terrible compared to Swiftkey.
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h4ck said:
from my experience it's amazing and i type faster and more accurately than any other keyboard. you either don't know how to use it correctly, or "to each is own" huh?
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I think it might be just me because I've seen a lot of people saying it's great.
 
Yeah, I still won't be using any other third-party keyboards even when this is out. There's just no reason to, and my 5+ years of typing on iOS has made it faster for me to type on the default keyboard than most people I've ever seen anyway.
 
stiligFox said:
It just occurred to me, maybe devs could use this to create custom game controlling keyboards? Or even a custom keyboard for a suite of apps?
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Do you mean for external keyboards? Otherwise, can't they already design an interface anywhere on the screen? Not sure why a game would want to use a "keyboard", other than for text input.

But yes, certainly seems like someone could. They could on iOS6 or 7, too.
 
Ballmer was right?!

Can't believe I'm saying this but ... could it be that Despicable Me (Steve Ballmer) was actually right?

Developers! DEVELopers!!! DEVELOPERS!!!! COME ON!!!
 
I'm excited to try out some of these new keyboards across the whole system. I'm not sure if the keyboards mentioned in the article support this, but I remember having an app on my iPhone a year or so ago that had an invisible keyboard that was surprisingly accurate. Would something like that be possible in the new SDK?

Another question: Does anyone know if you can hook into Apple's new system keyboard and simply change the colors in your version? Or have customizable options like lowercase/uppercase switching on the keys or customizing where certain symbols are located on the keyboard for quick access—while using Apple's own keyboard as the framework? I'd love to have a dark keyboard that I could customize but runs Apple's new algorithms.
 
I've used both flesky and swiftkey a lot on the Android platform, and for ios I'm looking forward to the swiftkey keyboard
 
I do not want their piece of **** 3rd party keyboards on my 5s at all.

The reason why these keyboard apps were made in the first place because of how ****** and non-responsive the Android keyboards were out of the box.

iOS never had a keyboard issue because it was done right from the start. Never one time did I stop and say, "Hey I need a new keyboard". Not ever.
 
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