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Swype for XOOM??

I know there were some grumblings about Swype on the XOOM around release time and the team at Swype haven't returned any emails so I come to my community.
Is there any word on the XOOM getting Swype? Soon? Ever?
Anyone have a way of hacking it on? I've tried but keep getting the error "Screen resolution not supported".

Have you tried installing the beta?
http://beta.swype.com
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Last i checked the beta didn't work on the xoom, that was the day i got my xoom too, so not sure if a new beta has been released since, but i also heard that swype had no intentions of making a swype version for the large tablets (keeping to the 7" of the galaxy tab) but those could have been hear say, just lending my 2 cents! I'd love to see a mini-swype that takes ups just one side of the screen and you use one thumb, that'd be sweet...

Still not working on the Xoom, but last I read on their forum they still intended to make it work for us.

Just go to themes and apps in this sub forum and you'll find thumb beta. It works pretty flawlessly for a beta
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I just tried loading it few minutes ago. No dice. But I downloaded Thumb Keyboard last night and it is a massive improvement overall the stock keyboard. I love that it splits for thumb use in landscape mode and that a long press allows numbers and symbols on the main board without needing to jump back and forth boards like on the stock.
I figure if they can't get to market, there's always the competition.

I use SlideIt. I like swype better, but it's not a bad option. It's not free though, but pretty cheap.

Thanks for all the good info! Looking into it now.....
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I'm using the new swift key for tablet beta and like it. Give it a shot.

ggareis said:
I'm using the new swift key for tablet beta and like it. Give it a shot.
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I have both swiftkey and thumb keyboard. They're basically the same concept but I find it easier to type on the thumb keyboard thanks to its responsiveness and functionalities. Nevertheless, swiftkey interface is tron like which is wohoo nice. Though it still has more bugs to ve worked out than as of thumb keyboard
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Anyone tried the Nuance FlexT9 keyboard?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nuance.flext9.input&feature=search_result

roadratx said:
Anyone tried the Nuance FlexT9 keyboard?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nuance.flext9.input&feature=search_result
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Phone keyboards won't fit very well on a bigger screen. I be tried smart keyboard too. The keys are squished down to the bottom of the screen and are longer.
I doubt that flext9 will work. But still 4.99 is still a bit too much for testing lol
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Actually I'm using the flext9 keyboard on my Xoom to type this...
It does work Swype style, but not sure if typing is faster or swiping.
I guess it depends if you are using two hands or one to type. In portrait it seems better to swipe but not necessarily in landscape, if you have the tablet on the desk.
After 15 minutes of use I decided to keep it and still using it as my default keyboard so it can't be bad
I like the word prediction bar and the long press for punctuation... haven't tried the voice or handwriting recognition though.

What is the perfect keyboard?

I've tried them all stock, SwiftKey, swype, SwiftKey x beta, smart, better keyboard, an all are mediocre. Does anyone have a really good keyboard? It seems that wp7 and apple hav flawless keyboards right now and its upsetting android is letting me down with quality.
Edit: notice how the spelling isn't even perfect when making the thread. (using SwiftKey x beta)
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After getting used to it, the stock gingerbread has quickly become my favorite onscreen keyboard. I've used them all and I like Swype and Swiftkey as well, but I really dig the speed of the gingerbread keyboard. It's a personal choice of course, I hope you find your perfect keyboard!

Sometimes I find it hard to click on the right letter, but the stock keyboard is indeed the most responsive you will find.
Ultra keyboard also seemed ok to me, very customizable and has a tool bar on top of it that offers quick acces to basic actions like copy, paste, cut, settings etc from a single touch. It also supports gestures. I really enjoyed typing on it but it has this small issue that was a deal breaker for me: typing on the enter button requires a small pause to be clickable, I think the space button as well. I think its there to prevent accidental typing on them while you are typing words, but it really pissed me off.
The keyboard from HTC Sense also seemed to be very ok, I found it to be the most accurate on suggesting words, just google HTC_IME mod and give it a try.
Other then that they are all the same for me, except that the stock GB keyboard is definitely the most responsive one.
Swype and swiftkey are a no-no for me, people just think they are faster but its just a new type of typing, something new. Typing with 2 thumbs is much faster then swyping with 1.

I tried Swift Key and Swype, nothing beats the stock keyboard, really zippy

Tried everything. Stock is the best, except for the occasional ddouble lletters.
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SwiftKey ftw!
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I have tried a few also. Ever since gingerbread keyboard on the market came out it been my favorite. Don't see what's great about iPhone / windows keyboards? Same stuff.
My one gripe is the android keyboard sound. I hate it. I know better keyboard has the iPhone sound which is much better.

I'm using the gingerbread keyboard. I think is the best for fast typing...

thanks for all the responses and after fast texting with all the keyboards I find stock to be the fastest but it does still have some bugs like the double letters idk if any of you have experienced that but hopefully ice cream sandwich fixes that! (if we even get it haha)
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try it slide keyboard

Smart Keyboard Pro

Stock gingerbread is the best then the 2 best would have to be
HTC sense

I used to use stock Keyboard only
But one day Amazon App Store gave away Flex t9 keyboard app for free and I've been using it ever since.
You guys should all try it, I fell in love.
on an interesting side note, Nuance is the developer of the keyboard which is a company in which apple is interested in acquiring. not that I favor apple, but shows the quality of what this keyboard can be.
It's like swype + swiftkey put together
I just had to mention it since I guess I saw nobody else did.

Swiftkey keyboard if free on Amazon Market

It's got a lot of cool features, and I like it better than the Samsung keyboard.
You can check it out here.
Edit: free today 7/21

Yea, I got it today. Seems to work pretty well.
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This is the best keyboard available in my opinion. I've tried swype and better keyboard even go keyboard and I keep coming back to SwiftKey.
Get it while it's free, one of the best apps i've seen offered free on the amazon appstore.
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+1
swiftkey is awesome

swype is more gooder.

I've been using swype but grabbed this one today to try out for a few days. So far I'm liking it

The Jack of Clubs said:
swype is more gooder.
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Swype is a solid keyboard, but I just can't bring myself to swype. I'd rather throw the phone sideways and text in landscape. Although, most keyboards are easier to use on this 4.5" screen!

This is probably the best keyboard ever I bought it a long time ago it even works perfect on this old school motor backdrop
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Love it. Thanks for the heads up!
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If you like it check out swift key x beta I believe it called on the market. It's a newer version of it and has some pretty sick keyboard themes compared to this one. It is also free.
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I didn't like it. I'm going back to the Gingerbread Keyboard.

Since I installed this keyboard my battery life seems to have lowered, anybody experience anything similar?
Luis

I have been using Swiftkey since the original. Used beta X loved it now that I'm using Swiftkey X I am having issues with it reseting everytime i restart my phone any ideas

Swiftkey X is awesome,
I spent 6 monnths with swipe and swore it was king!
now I use swiftey!

Best keyboard ever. Never had one issue and I still have predictions from my aria
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I had it and got it in the free app a day deal but uninstalled it right after. It used around 30 or so mb of ram.
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I wanted to love this keyboard, and for the most part I do. However, I keep having this problem where it saves a period to the end of each word. Say, if I were to finish a sentence with the word "hotdog" I would type "hotdog." From then on, every time I type "hotdog" and hit the space key, it auto-corrects to "hotdog. " Does anyone else have this issue? Any ideas on disabling it? I've tried all of the different space function settings, but nothing fixes it. Otherwise, I would love this app.
I'm using the Gingerbread keyboard now with Infused V2B3, and it's working really well for me, but I think that without the aforementioned issue SwiftKey X would be at the top of my list.

gtrmn said:
I wanted to love this keyboard, and for the most part I do. However, I keep having this problem where it saves a period to the end of each word. Say, if I were to finish a sentence with the word "hotdog" I would type "hotdog." From then on, every time I type "hotdog" and hit the space key, it auto-corrects to "hotdog. " Does anyone else have this issue? Any ideas on disabling it? I've tried all of the different space function settings, but nothing fixes it. Otherwise, I would love this app.
I'm using the Gingerbread keyboard now with Infused V2B3, and it's working really well for me, but I think that without the aforementioned issue SwiftKey X would be at the top of my list.
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Does this happen on every app? I ask this because some input methods used to have bugs on Google+.
Maybe you can try enabling and disabling 'Quick "."' in 'Advanced'?

gtrmn said:
I wanted to love this keyboard, and for the most part I do. However, I keep having this problem where it saves a period to the end of each word. Say, if I were to finish a sentence with the word "hotdog" I would type "hotdog." From then on, every time I type "hotdog" and hit the space key, it auto-corrects to "hotdog. " Does anyone else have this issue? Any ideas on disabling it? I've tried all of the different space function settings, but nothing fixes it. Otherwise, I would love this app.
I'm using the Gingerbread keyboard now with Infused V2B3, and it's working really well for me, but I think that without the aforementioned issue SwiftKey X would be at the top of my list.
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I haven't noticed this at all. It took a bit to get it to work the way I would expect. My settings:
Typing style: precise
Spacebar will...: always insert a space
Quick ".": checked
All the rest are defaults

keyboard for our tiny screen

I have tried a ton of keyboards and I just can't seem to find anything that is useful with our skinny little screen. I dislike the non-configurationablism of the stock keyboard.
Anyone have a preference? I'm not big on sliding keyboards. I have slideit full version, but dislike it as well. I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
Tried:
Stock (heh)
Go Keyboard
Swiftkey X (Phone)
Thumb Keyboard
slideit
better keyboard 8
probably others I'm not remembering

Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result

El Daddy said:
Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result
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yeah I bought it and use it on my tablet. I will give it a shot right now.

Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.

My top favorites are SwiftKey and A.I. Keyboard..they work great for me!
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bought swiftkey X (phone). Not sure I will like it, but I'm going to play with it some more later to see if I can tweak it out. Looks very nice for prediction junkies though. pretty nice.
I'm going to see if I can get into prediction typing.

May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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solrac.dc said:
May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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Yeah listing would have been a good idea. I just couldn't remember off the top of my head and didn't have my phone handy.
I tried GO. it's decent. I want better! '
I think I'm just going to be hosed because the width of the keys are too small for my fat fingers when used with this small screen in portrait.
Maybe I will just be stuck in landscape and double thumbing.

Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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chisleu said:
Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.
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I'm the developer of Thumb Keyboard. I stumbled upon this thread because I have a Sensation myself (love it btw).
Thumb Keyboard 4.x is already multi-touch.
If there are any suggestions to improve the keyboard let me know. I already built in an option to resize the font, because the high resolution of the qHD display will reduce the size of the font (which is great in the case of some other apps btw). Any other suggestions/requests for the sensation display are very welcome.
Btw an update will be released this weekend or begin next week with, amongst others, a split keyboard with cursor keys. Works great on the Sensation. But that's my very biased opinion. Also it will be packed with a ton of downloadable high Res themes.

try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone

You can always give 8pen a go. Who knows? Maybe you'll be the one that fully masters it. I'm also waiting on the beta of Touchpal Curve Input to be released. You can find a few videos of it on YouTube.
Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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Interesting...I just signed up for it. I knew our standard keyboard wasn't Swype, but how is Swype different?

orihuri said:
try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone
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+1 for smart keyboard, has arrow keys configurable to be on the main screen, key size customization and a bunch more. I regret it does not have copy paste commands, afaik.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro&hl=en

I'm sure there will be something out there for your talented fingers and I literally laughed out loud when you stated about the size of this screen.
You must be a bodyguard?? J/ K
GL again and I am sure that you will find something ;-)
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BETTER KEYBOARD... it should be named as "Best keyboard"

chisleu said:
I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
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Ultra Keyboard if you haven't already tried it.

FlexT9? I think is double touch. It's basically a combo of swype and dictation. Also you can actually write your letters out a la Sony Clie days lol. Pretty much a jack of all trades but does not do one particularly well, but gets the job done. The Dragon software is pretty spot on for me.

Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Agreed! i am so used to speeding through my texts now that i pretty much only use the gingerbread kb mainly because of the multi touch but i have grown very fond of thumb keyboard

swype all the way !

A. I. Keyboard

I have used swype, swiftkey, t9, better keyboard, even that ridiculous rotary keyboard.
I am a keyboard geek (among other flavors of geek).
I gotta say, A.I. Type keyboard (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aitype.android) is simply amazing.
It seems smarter than swiftkey and is completely customizable. (Background images, colors, layout, even keyboard type (iphone, windows 7, gingerbread among others).
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thumb keyboards better

luciferii said:
thumb keyboards better
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Alas, I lost my thumbs in a freak hitchhiking accident.
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Not going to lie.. this keyboard seems pretty good.. though not that many people use it. But I think ill stuck wit ny swiftkey x. Because look at that last sentence swiftkey wuloukd have corrected it all..
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I have to admit to being a keyboard whore. I have since early 2009 bought almost every keyboard out. I have better keyboard, perfect keyboard, smart keyboard, swiftkey long before it became the X version. I had been using Swiftkey until a few days ago when I tried the latest version of Go Keyboard. The predictions aren't as psychic as swiftkey, but the keying on Go Keyboard is much more accurate for me so I have to depend on correction and prediction a lot less. And, the correction is VERY accurate. As far as the keyboard in the OP, it looks like another gingerbread recompile. What makes it stand out from the crowd?
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SwimDrewid said:
even that ridiculous rotary keyboard
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Duh, you mean 8pen? Hey, it is very fun to use it you know. Except when you slide superfast, people around you think that you're crazy scratching up your own phone. lol
8penned from my blazing fast DHD

I love that it has themes and different sounds for space, tap, accept. However it doesn't do autotext which I cant function without now nor does it correct conjunctions and the comma is a pain. Promising tho

Loving it so far ..def promising ...
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So far it seems decent. Predictions are good (for both what's currently being typed, as well as guessing the next word) and I like the how the long-press for period brings up the sub-menu of common punctuation keys.

In spite of it not being perfect, AI is certainly a beautiful piece of work.

I have been using it from ages......!!
The best undoubtedly among all
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Is there a "swipe"-function planed?