Third Party Keyboards still terribly laggy

[bcharleson]

Wish they'd work on the lock screen.

Totally with you on this one!

 

[thedeejay]

I tested different 3rd party keyboards. First of all:

3rd party keyboards often feel like foreign substance. They crash very often. And there is no support for voice dictation.

• 
  Apple Keyboard:
  predictive suggestions are very good, but there is no flow input and the design of the keyboard looks very outdated.

• SwiftKey:
  has very accurate flow input, but there are only 2 designs. SwiftKey crashes very often.

• Minuum:
  many beautiful designs. But predictive suggestions are very bad compared to the Apple Keyboard.

• Fleksy:
  innovative gestures. Predictive suggestions are actual unusable.

• Swype:
  Flow input less accurate than SwiftKey. But more designs then SwiftKey. Different Languages are separately and not one layout as in SwiftKey.

Conclusion of 3rd party Keyboards:
There is still some work to do. 3rd party keyboards need access to voice dictation and crashes should be minimized.

Luckily for me the suggestions given by Fleksy are decent. There is the odd scenario it will spit out something unrelated but Apple's Keyboard does that far too often.

 

[Armen]

Swype is better for me as well, but I really like Fleksy and its ability to use space by swiping right and deleting by swiping left. It really speeds up the process. Especially on a device like an iPad where swiping continuously can be kind of a pain. Let's hope for fixes in future iOS versions (8.2/8.3)

I haven't quite figured out what size to set Fleksy too. I still can't seem to type as fast as it is advertising.

 

[fivedots]

• 
  Apple Keyboard:
  predictive suggestions are very good, but there is no flow input and the design of the keyboard looks very outdated.

I have to ask: Am I alone in thinking Apple's predictions are actually kind of useless unless you type super slow and/or are sending very brief replies?

I hooked Swiftkey up to my Evernote, Gmail, Twitter, etc. and I find its suggestions are much more relevant and appear quicker/aren't always moving or fading in so I can actually hit them.

I just wish Apple would move the dictation off the keyboard and to somewhere else so it could be used when third party keyboards are enabled.

 

[ViperDesign]

Love swiftkey and swype. Only thing I hate is not having the ability to dictate when I want to or unable to text.

Very annoying.

 

[thedeejay]

I have to ask: Am I alone in thinking Apple's predictions are actually kind of useless unless you type super slow and/or are sending very brief replies?

I hooked Swiftkey up to my Evernote, Gmail, Twitter, etc. and I find its suggestions are much more relevant and appear quicker/aren't always moving or fading in so I can actually hit them.

I just wish Apple would move the dictation off the keyboard and to somewhere else so it could be used when third party keyboards are enabled.

Apple's predictions take longer than normal texting. Kind of a waste of time. Second their autocorrect seems to have to have gotten worse. It's just like iOS, gets worse with every update

 

[fivedots]

Apple's predictions take longer than normal texting. Kind of a waste of time. Second their autocorrect seems to have to have gotten worse. It's just like iOS, gets worse with every update

Heh, they take longer and EVERY time I actually go to hit one, it moves position.

 

[Jeayese]

finally a thread that understands me! currently having lots of these keyboard lags to the point where I am ready to give up on 3rd party keyboards and go back to the boring default one.

Currently using Themeboard: http://www.taphive.com/themeboard/ - It's not bad, has a few problems here and there but very minimal compared to Flesky, Minuum or nintype.