New iOS Swiping Keyboard Capable of 120WPM Speeds

[kramjam]

Pretty neat keyboard. Hopefully Apple decides to let iOS open up more in the future to having something like this completely optional system wide.

 

[Alphabetize]

I have NO idea how to use this keyboard.

 

[sk1wbw]

So 5 pages of nothing but the keyboard and how Android has had 55668934578 keyboards for the last 2309782345 years? Not much about the app itself, which actually looks pretty cool. If we could figure it out.

But please, drop the **** about Android and keyboards. There's so much more to an OS and the world as we know it besides keyboards.

 

[peapody]

App looks like a lot was put into it, and has some cool design features.. But yes pretty confusing to use.

 

[Dviper27]

Finally! LOVE IT!!! Would love to test it out!

 

[macUser2007]

So 5 pages of nothing but the keyboard and how Android has had 55668934578 keyboards for the last 2309782345 years? Not much about the app itself, which actually looks pretty cool. If we could figure it out.

But please, drop the **** about Android and keyboards. There's so much more to an OS and the world as we know it besides keyboards.

Oh, OK.

Except that the KEYBOARD is one of the most often used utilities in any smart phone environment. And the iOS keyboard sucks.

BTW, this is an article about a keyboard, if you didn't notice. The app itself is there only because in iOS we cannot have a decent keyboard unless implemented within each app.

 

[sixrom]

Finally.

Swype is my favourite thing about Android.

I was beginning to think that Apple was blind, or simply too stubborn to embrace this far superior input method. If Apple does the unthinkable (for them) and builds an iPhone with Swype style input and a large display, the revenue stream will skyrocket even higher and they'll wish they would have copied Android phones sooner.

 

[Roller]

Hipjot's keyboard is actually very cool, once you get used to it. However, the app's user interface is atrocious. The author should just release a very simple note taking app that uses his keyboard.

 

[freediverx]

And why is that? If you do not like any particular keyboard then don't install it. Or do you prefer Apple to always decide what is good for you?

Yup, Apple has earned my trust - unlike Google.

 

[xJus10x]

How is using this two handed any different than using Swype two handed? Am I completely missing something? You can't type two words simultaneously... and I can use my right or left hand with Swype. Odd article.

 

[nooaah]

Indeed two pointless and honestly frustrating lock downs.

1: No 3rd party keyboards installed (I used to 3rd party ones on my Palm5 years before Apple)

2: No 3rd party default web browsers allowed.

Thankfully now that over controlling person had gone, Apple can move forward as a company and stop treating it's consumers like children who would not understand anything other that what he deemed they should be using.

Thank god someone died so my phone can have more options! Sociopath.

 

[Piggie]

Thank god someone died so my phone can have more options! Sociopath.

Unfortunately not before so much damage had been done to entire computing industry that s going to take literally years if not decades to recover from

Taken the whole industry away from what computers and computing had all been about for decades and turned it into a who can makes the nicest looking low power mobile locked down toy product.

I only hope one day we can get back on track and recover from ths tie out blip into no mans land we are stuck in.

 

[Tech198]

Either that guys a fast typist, or he's somehow sped up his fingers. This sounds good.

Just what everyone needs. a QWERTY keyboard.. with the added benifiet of an iPhone...

Unfortunately, its only a app, but i would guess this could be useful for JB devices installed keyboard by default.

 

[69Mustang]

Collaboration

It seems that a lot of people want Apple to open up to 3rd party keyboards. Whether they will or not only Apple knows. The OP says the app was only created to highlight the functionality of the keyboard. That may be why the interface is a bit clunky.

What if this keyboard was integrated into some of the more popular messaging and note apps? A collaboration with other devs. Using this, Swype, or Swiftkey inside of the more popular apps could potentially make Apple realize that optional keyboards are desired. The apps could use the standard iOS keyboard or the keyboard of choice. I'm not a dev so I don't know what that would entail. The keyboard is pretty slick. The app, not so much.

 

[0029937]

Oh, OK.

Except that the KEYBOARD is one of the most often used utilities in any smart phone environment. And the iOS keyboard sucks.

THABK YOU. <---- look I can't eve type this properly. I genuinely made that typing mistake.

The irony! Here I login just to agree with this fantastic comment and I make 2 mistakes while typing. I genuinely made them on my iPhone, not trying to be a smart ass here. One in just simply trying to say "thank you" and the other in "even".

The more I realize I don't use my iPhone anymore for more than just texting, e-mail and web browsing, the more I just want a device that doesn't have a painful typing experience. Yes I type too fast and could slow down. But I've seen people use those swipe gestures on their Android phones, it looked very fast and awesome.

 

[coldjeanzzz]

It's so weird to me to see people complaining about the iOS keyboard. Whenever I use it (I am on Android right now) I seem to make fewer mistakes on it. With Android I fortunately have the choice to find the right keyboard until I find something that works but it takes a lot of trial and error. I have cycled through 4-5 different keyboards. Swiftkey is probably the best in terms of autocorrection (you can completely butcher what you were trying to type and it will still understand), but it has terrible themes and not very pleasant to look at. As far as swype goes, it is nice for one-handed use and so long as you aren't spelling a very foreign word it will get it right. I especially like to use it when I'm being lazy.

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By the way I know this is going to anger a lot of people in here but I can't resist

iOS 7 keyboard with swype

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iphonestyle.inputmethod.keyboard7

 

[lilo777]

Yup, Apple has earned my trust - unlike Google.

"Earned my trust" and letting them decide everything for you without options are two very different things.

 

[Brittany246]

Stories like this help me to dislike my iPhone more and more every day. It's so closed I feel stuck... They make good products but at times make bad choices (as all companies and designers do at times) the only difference is they are the only company that enforce those bad choices on users unrelentingly with no recourse. If they make a design choice for something as fundamentally as a keyboard, why are customers just stuck with their the bad choice? Why can't we choose something else? At the end of the day we are still buying into and using their platform... But I dirges, this type of logical thinking will never grace Apples DNA of arrogance so I'm just stuck with a fast, reliable, but small, featureless, un-accomodating phone. Meh

You're being way too dramatic. You're not being forced to use an iPhone. If your phones keyboard is that important to you, then switch to something different.

 

[macUser2007]

, or do something different and as nice

...I have cycled through 4-5 different keyboards. Swiftkey is probably the best in terms of autocorrection (you can completely butcher what you were trying to type and it will still understand), but it has terrible themes and not very pleasant to look at....

Well, I only wish we had Swiftkey in iOS. It's the best predictive keyboard of any I have tried and it makes the iOS keyboard seem like a donkey cart next to a Tesla

BTW, it also incorporates a "swipe" input method, although I personally don't use it, since I find that the predictive method requires only a couple of letters before it shows the correct word choice (and since it learns, often it requires no input at all, just picking the words I most often use together). It also has really accurate voice input.

Some themes are truly hideous, but some are better than others (nothing quite as nice as iOS7's design, but there is no reason someone can't duplicate it exactly, at the risk of getting a letter from Apple Legal. Or do something different and just as good (but developers rarely have the design skills and sense). See my screenshot here

 

[JerryCards]

I bought the App. The typing speed is quite impressive. It will be a big improvement if we can have something like that in iPhone keyboard.

 

[Max(IT)]

There's really nothing "oddly pig-headed" about not allowing 3rd party system level apps to run on iOS. Can you really not see why? Part of iOS's security and stability is because it doesn't allow 3rd party drivers or system level "mods" to be downloaded and installed- sure Apple themselves can come with some nasty bugs from time to time, but you'll never see someone running Safari that's been taken over by 9 different toolbars or constantly grinding the disk to a halt loading adware. And you won't have people installing a 3rd party keyboard that logs and sends everything that's typed to some crafty criminal's server.

I do think Apple needs to do something here, but I doubt it will be simply opening up the app store to random 3rd party keyboards. Either Apple themselves should simply purchase/license another keyboard option, or they should make a highly curated program for incorporating them, like the MFI program for 3rd party hardware.

Absolutely correct.

 

[jclardy]

Basically a temporary development of old technology.

Voice input/dictation with voice correction capability will make keyboards obsolete over time.

Maybe for basic uses, but I don't want the random people on the subway listening to my text conversation with a friend. Voice communication is naturally not private.

Also there are still many jobs that just would be slow when using voice, even if it had 100% accuracy. Take accounting for example, what is easier - typing 3565.68 or saying "three thousand five hundred sixty five point six eight."

 

[bushido]

i must be the only one not liking swipey lol i have it on my nexus 4 but i never use it mostly bc i cannot stand autocorrection at all.

 

[Mactendo]

Yeah... Your nickname speaks for itself.
If it wasn't Steve you wouldn't be whining here about 3rd party keyboards, you'd be still using Nokia dumb phone or something like blackberry which sure has a lot of optional keyboards.

Indeed two pointless and honestly frustrating lock downs.

1: No 3rd party keyboards installed (I used to 3rd party ones on my Palm5 years before Apple)

2: No 3rd party default web browsers allowed.

Thankfully now that over controlling person had gone, Apple can move forward as a company and stop treating it's consumers like children who would not understand anything other that what he deemed they should be using.

 

[Piggie]

Yeah... Your nickname speaks for itself.
If it wasn't Steve you wouldn't be whining here about 3rd party keyboards, you'd be still using Nokia dumb phone or something like blackberry which sure has a lot of optional keyboards.

I do use a Nokia Dumb Phone! lol (at the moment anyway) No way do I want to have to charge a dam phone up every single day.

As I said, with my Palm PDA, years before the iPhone but basically very similar, touch screen, grid of icons etc. I was able to install a 3rd party keyboard of choice, and having come from the PC world I am used to be able to chose what I wish to use and what best suits me. Not what some old guy things I should be using.
I'm sure Apple will change this now they don't have that issue to deal with any more.