The ability to install to third party keyboards have been available on iOS through jailbreak since 2008.
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List of Third-Party Keyboards Now Available for iOS 8 Users
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The ability to install to third party keyboards have been available on iOS through jailbreak since 2008.
eh search for Dvoark keyboard for iPhone on Google. If you can't find it let me know, and I'll check myself.
People have been modifying the stock iOS keyboard for years. Also, even though they did this before Android, i don't consider it an innovation. It's just a third party app...
I remember that. The Dvorak keyboard on iPhone was a hack that basically just swapped the letters around on the keyboard map. It wasn't a full-on replacement, or a skin.
WARNING WARNING WARNING.
I just had to restore my iPhone due to a bug with the third party keyboards. I opened a bug report for Apple.
If you add a third party keyboard, DO NOT remove the default English keyboard, especially if you have a complex password with characters like I do.
In the initial login screen after a reboot (and maybe every time, I don't know since i use TouchID mostly), it asks for your password, but it WILL NOT DISPLAY the third party keyboards. Result: you can't enter your password. Only a restore will help you there.
I just had to restore my iPhone due to a bug with the third party keyboards. I opened a bug report for Apple.
If you add a third party keyboard, DO NOT remove the default English keyboard, especially if you have a complex password with characters like I do.
In the initial login screen after a reboot (and maybe every time, I don't know since i use TouchID mostly), it asks for your password, but it WILL NOT DISPLAY the third party keyboards. Result: you can't enter your password. Only a restore will help you there.
It was a modification of the original iOS keyboard package, which had to be installed through Cydia's installer app.
Not sure how that's any different from installing an apk or downloading a keyboard from the play store.
I tried SwiftKey, Fleksy, and Swype -- and I have to be honest when I say that SwiftKey is by far the best of them all. I've already deleted the other two. For me it registers both my swipes and regular typing far the best out of the three -- I like it because I can still type as if it's a regular keyboard and yet all of the button placements are still familiar. a++!
That seems to be the majority opinion so far in this thread. Funny, because I despise Swiftkey on Android lol. I use Swype exclusively. I tried Swiftkey and hated it. My iPad is jailbroken so I can't try Swiftkey on iOS yet, but I'll deifnitely check it out to see.
Very disappointing that Swiftkey is not supporting swipe on iPad. Is that a feature or a bug?
Also something else I noticed is that you can't use Swiftkey (and likely other third party keyboards) in the quick reply function to SMS
Works for me, even on the lock screen.
I guess it's bad when Android takes concepts and features from iOS, but totally fine when iOS takes them from Android.
BECAUSE THATS INNOVATION!!!
Awww, it's so cute you think Android invented 3rd party keyboards.
I don't blame you. I'm weary of anyone logging my keystrokes.
Sure, apps like 1password use TouchID, but sometimes it seems to require typing in the master password, and I don't want anyone to have that.
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..and fleksy's servers have recorded what you just typed?
Are you sure? I could had sworn it was a Windows Mobile (i.e.: PPC) innovation.
There's one keyboard that just has different colors but I forgot the name of it.
Weird Bug with 3rd party keyboards
1. Activate 3rd Party Keyboard.
2. Send someone a text message - click to go home after sending.
3. Wait for them to respond.
4. Click on Messages App.
5. See full screen, wait a second, and then see 3rd party keyboard, displayed OVER your newly received text message.
Is that just me, or anyone else?
1. Activate 3rd Party Keyboard.
2. Send someone a text message - click to go home after sending.
3. Wait for them to respond.
4. Click on Messages App.
5. See full screen, wait a second, and then see 3rd party keyboard, displayed OVER your newly received text message.
Is that just me, or anyone else?
Swype works well but there are some minor bugs to sort out such is it not always coming up and sometimes I would type and nothing would get entered into the text box.
I've tried SwiftKey and TouchPal so far, and there are some things I like and don't like about each.
Aesthetically TouchPal looks better to me. It looks like the stock iOS keyboard. SwiftKey looks visually bulkier.
Functionality wise there are pros and cons to both. TouchPal is great in that it offers quick access to numbers, common punctuation, and Emoji without having to switch to the secondary symbol keyboard or to the stock Emoji keyboard. The only major annoyance I have with it is that characters don't get "entered" into the text field until you tap the word/character on the prediction line, hit space, punctuate, or start gesture typing a new word. This adds an annoying and unnecessary extra step when populating instant search fields, Spotlight, photo/username tagging within apps, etc.
On the flip side, SwiftKey is almost the exact opposite. It enters text as you type, so that's a huge improvement over TouchPal. However, it lacks all the quick access gestures to the numbers, punctuation, and Emoji that TouchPal has.
I'll probably stick with SwiftKey for now because the non-immediate text entry is a huge annoyance to me. Ideally I would like to have TouchPal's looks and functionality with the way how SwiftKey enters text immediately.
I'd like to try out Swype or the other keyboards, but I don't want to pay for them if since I would dump them immediately if I don't like them.
Aesthetically TouchPal looks better to me. It looks like the stock iOS keyboard. SwiftKey looks visually bulkier.
Functionality wise there are pros and cons to both. TouchPal is great in that it offers quick access to numbers, common punctuation, and Emoji without having to switch to the secondary symbol keyboard or to the stock Emoji keyboard. The only major annoyance I have with it is that characters don't get "entered" into the text field until you tap the word/character on the prediction line, hit space, punctuate, or start gesture typing a new word. This adds an annoying and unnecessary extra step when populating instant search fields, Spotlight, photo/username tagging within apps, etc.
On the flip side, SwiftKey is almost the exact opposite. It enters text as you type, so that's a huge improvement over TouchPal. However, it lacks all the quick access gestures to the numbers, punctuation, and Emoji that TouchPal has.
I'll probably stick with SwiftKey for now because the non-immediate text entry is a huge annoyance to me. Ideally I would like to have TouchPal's looks and functionality with the way how SwiftKey enters text immediately.
I'd like to try out Swype or the other keyboards, but I don't want to pay for them if since I would dump them immediately if I don't like them.
Full backup to the iCloud was done right first on an Apple device since iOS 5. Don't rewrite history.
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New iPhones has been coming out in September since 2011.
OMG!! Yes, thank goodness I'm not the only one having this issue. Hate the period placement.
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That would be really cool for 5s, but I think if you upgrade 6 ,might not be the best.
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That's so weird. One thing I noticed which I thought was weird is that any passwords pull up the apple keyboard (which makes sense so that passwords aren't stored in the thirdparty keyboard db)
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LOL. Amazing...
Remember FITALY? I missed that keyboard on wino 5 & 6. Best for stylus, not sure about finger input.
You have to click the little earth icon on the keyboard to switch to a different keyboard.