If you’re unfamiliar with Microsoft SwiftKey, it’s an Android keyboard replacement that’s also a Google Play Editors’ Choice app and the winner of the Global Mobile Awards’ Most Innovative App award in Barcelona, Spain. What distinguishes this keyboard from others in its class is that it can recognize not only patterns in your typing, but also how words interact. This makes it terrifyingly good at anticipating not only the next letter but also the next word, sometimes even before you start typing it.
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Microsoft SwiftKey, as an Android keyboard replacement, was updated to version 4.3 on November 6th, and a new feature was launched, which includes three distinct keyboard layouts in the app so you can use Microsoft SwiftKey on any screen size. Previously, there were separate SwiftKey apps for Android tablets and phones, necessitating the purchase of two apps if you owned both types of devices. All of your typing demands can now be met with just one app.
Different keyboard layouts were included in the original Microsoft SwiftKey as an Android keyboard replacement to make it easier to type on larger screens, and those new layouts are now available in version 4.3. You can move the keyboard around by undocking it, choosing from five different full-width keyboard sizes and two different layouts, thumb and compact.
The thumb layout divides the keyboard into two columns
It allows you to text with each thumb while holding the phone’s sides. Compact reduces the size of each key and moves it to one side of the screen, allowing one-handed typing (you can switch sides by pressing and holding the arrow that appears in this mode). In my tests, both the thumb and compact modes made typing on tablets and phablets like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 easier.
SwiftKey Cloud is a service provided by SwiftKey as an Android keyboard replacement
SwiftKey as an Android keyboard replacement Cloud, allows you to sync your personal typing profile with the cloud via the keyboard app. This allows you to have a fully uniform typing experience across all of your devices without the need to train keyboards on each one. The feature runs in the background and needs that you allow it in the Settings menu before it sends any data.
Another cloud-based feature, Hot Phrases, adds a daily log of trending terms on Twitter to the app’s prediction engine. This makes it easier to write out terms that everyone else is talking about, such as names from the most recent “Game of Thrones” episode or terms from a recent news story.
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But, a user’s idea about Microsoft Swiftkey
If you have a Huawei phone like me, Microsoft’s SwiftKey apps for Android tablets are almost certainly pre-installed. My first emotion was disgust; it was a shambles, and it made me irritable. SwiftKey apps for Android tablets are clearly inferior to Gboard in their default configuration. It’s far too cluttered and clumsy to use. It also consumes more screen real estate. The symbols being stacked on top of the letters is confusing, and the keys are all crammed together far too tightly. Frequently, I would press the wrong key and the predictive words would be completely different from what I had intended. I quickly lost tolerance with it.
The screen-eating bar at the top of the SwiftKey apps for Android tablets, serve as a shortcut for changing themes. It may appear insignificant, yet it makes a significant difference in the user interface.
The pre-builds are already far superior to the default, so why not personalize it even more? I made a custom set-up with a whale image as the background and eliminated the key-borders and symbols from the default build that bothered me. So now my SwiftKey is not only more intuitive, but it also has a personal touch. Gboard allows you to perform the same thing, however SwiftKey apps for Android tablets felt a little more attractive.
SwiftKey’s punctuation and symbol placement puzzled me at first, but after re-jigging the settings and familiarizing myself with it, it became slicker than Gboard. Swiping on the full-stop gives you rapid access to the exclamation mark, question mark, and comma. Gboard offers a similar feature, but it has more selections, which kind of defeats the purpose of being able to quickly select commonly used punctuation.
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