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What is the best software keyboard for Android?
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What is the best software keyboard for Android?
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iOS keyboard.
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>>53350204
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonyericsson.textinput.uxp
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best I've used for swiping is the stock google keyboard. I tried Swype and some others but the goog was better.
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botnet keyboard
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
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Why doesn't anyone mention hacker keyboard anymore? Did it go botnet or something?
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Kii keyboard even though it was taken down from Play Store.
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>>53350204
Super Swiftkey
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Google keyboard has consistently been the best keyboard out of everything I've tried
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Google keyboard seems to have the most accurate predictions.

Inb4 we're all Google shills
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I'll tenth the Google keyboard. I always come back to it. Just wish you could make it use less of the screen in the app settings. I have Xposed so I go that route.
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>>53350204
>what's the best
>posts a pic of it
Ayy
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>>53350204
Swiftkey for dual language function without tapping on a fucking switch key
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SwiftKey neural every day of the week and twice on Sundays
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Google
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Fleksy is best for 2 thumb typing, no swiping though.
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The best keyboard is the BlackBerry virtual keyboard, which can be installed on most android devices.

The ones I've tried have been Flesky (which is okay-ish), SwiftKey which is shit, Google Keyboard which is also shit, and Hub Keyboard which is still in beta from Microsoft.
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>>53351886
Came here to say this. The BlackBerry keyboard has a great suggestions system and it's made my typing a lot faster, although you do have to sideload it
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I actually really like the stock Samsung keyboard but I installed cyanogenmod so I use the Google Keyboard now
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Minuum
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>>53351886
>>53351934
Backing this. Has been my personal favorite so far.
Really wish they put it out on the Play store.

Have tried a handful of others like Google's default, Fleksy, etc, but wasn't a huge fan for one reason or another.
If I weren't using the BlackBerry keyboard, I'd still be using LG's default.
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>>53351886
>>53351994

Another cool thing about the BlackBerry Virtual Keyboard is word substitution. For example I can type "BBVK" or "BVK" (if I add that to the settings) and it would automatically converted to BlackBerry Virtual Keyboard. You can even go crazy with it like if you want to make "USA" and have it automatically converted to "United States of America", "Merica", "The USA", "'murica!" or whatever you want.
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>>53350204
Is there a decent keyboard with multilingual predictions?
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>>53351587
lower the dpi to make it smaller
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I use the default xperia keyboard, works well enough
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Google Keyboard but not the default rounded bullshit one.
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>>53351319
Is the only choice for ssh/terminal apps
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>>53351985
woah there buddy
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>>53351985
Yeah that shit kinda sucks bad
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Google Keyboard ftw
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Aosp keyboard for me, still can't even get close to typing as fast on my work iPhone 6, I don't know what makes the iOS keyboard so much damn better but its not even close
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>>53350204
I like the default AOSP keyboard. Default colors are garbage, but it's easy to edit the resources and make something pretty (Like a real dark theme with not shitty colors).
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AOSP is the same as the Google keyboard, but minus botnet
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This.
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>>53354408
Same. I'm looking to go back to android, but god damn, the keyboard on iOS is so much better, it's not even funny. I really hope there's SOMETHING for android that can compare...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844512
HTC IME mod. I love the T9 layout for touchscreen but every other implementation is rubbish.
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I use Fleksy. The auto correct is pretty great actually.
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>>53351985
Minuum is awful. No matter how accurate you are it guesses the most random shit
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Google keyboard for the win
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>>53351319
too many unneeded keys on a small surface

perfect keyboard free: android kb with arrow keys
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I've been using swiftkey for a while now but one thing has always bothered me and I haven't found a keyboard that fixes this:
Is there a keyboard that lets you temporarily disable the autocorrection/predictive typing/auto-punctuation/whatever easily and quickly for an instance of typing? Not everyone sets the proper flag that indicates that a textbox is for passwords/sensitive stuff that shouldn't be added to keyboard dictionary. Overall I love the predictions that swiftkey is making but sometimes I just don't want it and it gets in the way and there's no easy way to disable it temporarily.
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I really like the lg keyboard
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Default LG one.
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Is there anything with Undo/Redo? It's crazy that Android still doesn't have this built-in.
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HTC Sense using the swipe functionality
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>>53353245
This nigga gets it
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I heard that Microsoft made a keyboard.
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I've been using SwiftKey for a while now due to its excellent dual language support. It's only the only keyboard I can find that reliably supports my native language (Afrikaans) with suggestions and autocorrect.

When I was still on IOS I used Fleksy. It's an awesome keyboard if you don't use swype-style input. The gesture-based typing feels very natural and I type like a pro using it. Of course it doesn't support Afrikaans, but I lived with it as SwiftKey for IOS is shit, and the stock keyboard is even worse.

When I moved back to Android I tried a lot of things, from Fleksy to Google Keyboard and everything in between. I fell back on SwiftKey because it really isn't bad, and the fact that you don't have to switch languages manually is awesome.

If you only speak / type in English go with Google Keyboard, it's neat. If you're not a pleb and speak more languages go for SwiftKey.
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>>53351476
this tbqhfam
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4 people like me that needs to write in differents languages quickly is Swiftkey the best option
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>>53356337

It's called the Hub Keyboard but it's still in beta and not an official keyboard, so don't count on anything good for the moment. They probably do have a long term plan because they are trying to bring the Windows Phone keyboard to iOS, so I don't see why they wouldn't do the same for Android.
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Fleksy is best.
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