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I installed SwiftKey X and it is a amazing, it's ability to predict text is mind blowing. but around 30mins later. I removed it due to privacy concerns. Should I of been concerned about privacy?
Edit: Can a developer have a look at the codes and see what it's been sent back from the advice to the server
Probably not... I also have Swiftkey X. The Swiftkey company is trustworthy but hey, better safe than sorry.
AndriodLover said:
I installed SwiftKey X and it is a amazing, it's ability to predict text is mind blowing. but around 30mins later. I removed it due to privacy concerns. Should I of been concerned about privacy?
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could you tell us some more about it? what kind of privacy you're talking about? is swift key sending out your details? texts? accounts?
cez10 said:
could you tell us some more about it? what kind of privacy you're talking about? is swift key sending out your details? texts? accounts?
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First for best performances it needs access to your facebook, Twitter, gmail accounts. Second, why does a keyboard needs a services running in background at all times ? that can be sending data back to the server.
Third, Have a look at the privacy details http://www.swiftkey.net/privacy.
AndriodLover said:
First for best performances it needs access to your facebook, Twitter, gmail accounts. Second, why does a keyboard needs a server running in background at all times ? that can be sending data back to the server.
Third, Have a look at the privacy details http://www.swiftkey.net/privacy.
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Oef... where's the limit. It's like typing in Bentham's Panopticon.
appelflap said:
Oef... where's the limit. It's like typing in Bentham's Panopticon.
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AndriodLover said:
First for best performances it needs access to your facebook, Twitter, gmail accounts. Second, why does a keyboard needs a services running in background at all times ? that can be sending data back to the server.
Third, Have a look at the privacy details http://www.swiftkey.net/privacy.
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"In relation to our Apps such as SwiftKey, learned language data generated and stored on your computing devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, is never accessed by, or transmitted to us unless you wish to use additional features or services which would require the use of such data. Where we offer any additional services or facilities that do require use of data which might include personal information, such as server-based personalized services, then we will always seek your consent to the use of such data before providing such services or facilities."
Hey - just to weigh in quickly here. I'm the CMO of TouchType, the company that makes SwiftKey. We take user privacy very serious and don't ever process any of the data stored on your phone, as explained in our privacy policy.
When you choose to use our personalization services, this data is handled securely and without access to any of your password data. We only use your data to provide you with better predictions, though a language module that is generated and pushed to your phone.
There is really nothing to worry about here.
Thanks guys,
Joe
Thanks for posting, that's good to know. Might I say that I've been using the keyboard for a few days and it's definitely getting better.
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haha privacy concerns? whaaaat
Privacy ?? Mistrust...
hmm it does ask for a lot info
JoeBeats said:
Hey - just to weigh in quickly here. I'm the CMO of TouchType, the company that makes SwiftKey. We take user privacy very serious and don't ever process any of the data stored on your phone, as explained in our privacy policy.
When you choose to use our personalization services, this data is handled securely and without access to any of your password data. We only use your data to provide you with better predictions, though a language module that is generated and pushed to your phone.
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Thanks for answering here.
Just to clarify, when the "Learn from SMS" option is used, does SwiftKey upload or submit SMS text data stored on the phone to your servers or is everything processed on locally the phone?
anti-pop said:
Thanks for answering here.
Just to clarify, when the "Learn from SMS" option is used, does SwiftKey upload or submit SMS text data stored on the phone to your servers or is everything processed on locally the phone?
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I wonder the same thing. Does anybody know the answer?
Personally, I would use a firewall such as avast to block out any apps I don't want reaching out to the Internet. Especially for all my keyboard apps.
And yes, you could use a packet sniffer to monitor swift or any other app you are unsure about.
a4ol said:
Personally, I would use a firewall such as avast to block out any apps I don't want reaching out to the Internet. Especially for all my keyboard apps.
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Totally agree on this point. Use DroidWall, PDroid or LBE and feel safe? :> Using PDroid and LBE you could even configure SwiftKeyX to not be able to read any parts of private informations from your phone that you don't acknowledge.
Hope this helps The Keyboard as it rocks, i tested the trial-version myself. Too bad they don't have a free lite edition or something like that. As long as you need to pay for it i'm not jumping on that train, sorry ;/
I don't agree at all with the "CMO" of SwiftKey. The app is a huge privacy concern.
I just did a logcat and was more than shocked: The app completely misuses users trust by tracking him permanently. The logcat not even comes to equilibirum, permanently are requests made to http://api.geo.kontagent.net. To get feel how "serious" the company is about privacy, take a look here: http://www.kontagent.com/privacy-policy. Just as an example: "Kontagent employees, may, on occasion look at customer data for test purposes". Collected data includes social application data, custom data, cookies, location (!). Personally I "just" saw that serial number, phone type, ID etc. is transmitted. Plain text - no SSL - of course. I block my data anyways using XPrivacy and Droidwall and needless to say, I disabled all the clous services but this app immideately leaves my device. A keyboard is the most sensitive and important app on the device. It records everything, every single keystroke and sending out anything here is an absolute no-go. Breach of trust. I paid for the app, felt good about it and now I feel shocked how this company spies it customers.
My recommendation for everyone who takes security or privacy a little bit serious: Get rid of the software. Uninstall it immideately!
It's sad because the software is good but spying without opt-out on paying customers is unacceptable!
I simply do not understand why at least one of the ebook suppliers dont develop TTS for their android apps. I have contacted both Amazon and Google and neither have short term plans to introduce this feature and nor do they seemingly allow the devlopment of 3rd party apps to provide additional functionality like this.
There are so many titles which are not published as audio books and in any event with audio books you arent able to switch between reading on screen and read aloud for the same book.
To be fair Google do provide a work around but only if I turn on accessiblity which of course gives annoying audio feedback for everything the phone does?
As well as asking developers if could be done (even in a premium app) I am also curious to know why this basic functionalitu missing because it is likely to drive users to resort to piracy to get text or non protected ePub formats - crazy?
I am not very good yet at working out which forum to post in - so if this is in the wrong place I am quite happy for it to be moved.
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I simply do not understand why at least one of the ebook suppliers dont develop TTS for their android apps. I have contacted both Amazon and Google and neither have short term plans to introduce this feature and nor do they seemingly allow the devlopment of 3rd party apps to provide additional functionality like this.
There are so many titles which are not published as audio books and in any event with audio books you arent able to switch between reading on screen and read aloud for the same book.
To be fair Google do provide a work around but only if I turn on accessiblity which of course gives annoying audio feedback for everything the phone does?
As well as asking developers if could be done (even in a premium app) I am also curious to know why this basic functionalitu missing because it is likely to drive users to resort to piracy to get text or non protected ePub formats - crazy?
I am not very good yet at working out which forum to post in - so if this is in the wrong place I am quite happy for it to be moved.
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The pro paid version of Moon+ reader on google play does TTS.
The free version of Cool Reader also does TTS. Click the settings key then "MORE" then "READ ALOUD"
HTH
I'm using Google's 'Play Books' and it has read aloud. I don't have accessibility options enabled.
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Extreme_One said:
I'm using Google's 'Play Books' and it has read aloud. I don't have accessibility options enabled.
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Thanks for this - I found that Google Play Books worked with free books that I had stored on my device but when I downloaded a sample of a paid book it wouldnt read aloud unless I had accessibillity turned on.
Does it work with paid for books for you and on what device? If it does I may purchase a cheap one to fully test. Google were the ones who told me it wouldnt work.
Clive
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Try app "Readboox" in google play....especially using the ivona free high quality text to speech voices such as Kendra US.
FBReader has a tts plugin on the market. I, for one, adore it.
Also worth bearing in mind that even if an app has TTS capabilities, it's down to the publishers whether they enable TTS for their books or not (well at least it's the case in the UK)
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gbswales said:
Thanks for this - I found that Google Play Books worked with free books that I had stored on my device but when I downloaded a sample of a paid book it wouldnt read aloud unless I had accessibillity turned on.
Does it work with paid for books for you and on what device? If it does I may purchase a cheap one to fully test. Google were the ones who told me it wouldnt work.
Clive
Galaxy S3
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I have only installed free books so far but they all have TTS read aloud enabled. I use Ivona TTS if that matters.
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hiddenhandgun said:
FBReader has a tts plugin on the market. I, for one, adore it.
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This, and it's completely free. :laugh: @ people who paid for Cool or Moon readers.
FBReader's TTS is crap, though. It reads too fast and it stumbles over words it shouldn't. I did this on a really crappy phone, though; I wonder if that had something to do with it. Also, a better TTS engine would have helped.
I'm currently reading Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (e.g. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). I won't even try letting anyone's TTS touch this. All those Swedish names? It's tough enough (as an American) to keep up with all the names. I've worked out the pronunciation myself; I shudder at the thought of TTS trying it.
Isadora said:
Also worth bearing in mind that even if an app has TTS capabilities, it's down to the publishers whether they enable TTS for their books or not (well at least it's the case in the UK)
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I am not sure that this is the case since Google Reader does provide TTS on all books BUT only with accessibility talk back turned on. Also none of the suppliers that I have written to have argued this as the reason - not that any of them gave a sensible reason!
di you try Ivona TTS
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This, and it's completely free. :laugh: @ people who paid for Cool or Moon readers.
FBReader's TTS is crap, though. It reads too fast and it stumbles over words it shouldn't. I did this on a really crappy phone, though; I wonder if that had something to do with it. Also, a better TTS engine would have helped.
I'm currently reading Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (e.g. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). I won't even try letting anyone's TTS touch this. All those Swedish names? It's tough enough (as an American) to keep up with all the names. I've worked out the pronunciation myself; I shudder at the thought of TTS trying it.
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I think that anything to do with stuttering is likely to be the TTS app rather than FBReader (TTS is just a plug in) as for pronounciation then I understand what you mean - however the new Ivona english Amy voice does the best job I have ever found, in the absence of foreign or very difficult words it is easy to forget that she is not a real person. I find my brain quickly adjusts and I dont think it matters if a name is mispronounced as along as the mispronounceation is the same each time it doesnt spoil the enjoyment of the story. My only problem with FB reader which I use for anything I can get in plain text format, is that it wont read copyright books that you have legitimately purchased from the likes of Amazon or Google.
In my humble opinion this is an example of encourgaing, rather than discouraging, piracy.
famewolf said:
Try app "Readboox" in google play....especially using the ivona free high quality text to speech voices such as Kendra US.
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Thanks for your suggestion but the issue is that you will still not be able to read protected books which is the majority of paid for ePub's such as those from Amazon and other book outlets. There are plenty of apps that will read public domain books aloud and the one I use even works fine from plain text files.
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Thanks for your suggestion but the issue is that you will still not be able to read protected books which is the majority of paid for ePub's such as those from Amazon and other book outlets. There are plenty of apps that will read public domain books aloud and the one I use even works fine from plain text files.
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I think Moon+ should be able to read protected books. It's been a while since I used it, so I'm not entirely sure. Might be worth testing.
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for starters, you sign the easiest way and without confirmation, the system is completely free and never have to do upgrade by cost.
Input give you 10 gigs of space in the cloud, you get 1 gig extra friend you invite, reaching maximum 50 gigabytes.
From what I like most is that you can upload a single file of 1 gigabyte.
It is easy to use and share those files can do public or private.
The public can comment and like. can be partners and friends, go to a user or anyone to follow.
For this and more they recommend.
the link: http://min.us/rxWcpu
In my case I had to activate proxy to download files to my speed. If you want me to check my Public folders can be searched as: kazutoaoi
free version doesn't support Android.
There seems to be loads of cloud storage popping up everywhere nowadays
Id much rather use a reputable one, Like dropbox, google drive, microsoft skydive (i think thats what its called ?)
I dont really fancy uploading precious photo's / documents to some homemade cloud storage server
also, android is google, everything i use is google, i like the whole idea of everything being together as one
google will rule the world one day !!
esmund said:
free version doesn't support Android.
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Why you say that? I use android on my N7000. First I register and then turn it down on my cel from the app store gogle play. works 100%
The app is completely free. Not exist, the paid version
azzledazzle said:
There seems to be loads of cloud storage popping up everywhere nowadays
Id much rather use a reputable one, Like dropbox, google drive, microsoft skydive (i think thats what its called ?)
I dont really fancy uploading precious photo's / documents to some homemade cloud storage server
also, android is google, everything i use is google, i like the whole idea of everything being together as one
google will rule the world one day !!
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Competition forces companies to keep innovating. Competition is good. I'll give this a go and see how it stacks up
Too low download speed
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I agree with what azzledazzle said.
I don't want to upload important data to newer / lesser known cloud storage.
I already have Google Drive (use it to store important data, weekly reports etc) and Box and Drop Box : use it to share data.
Boy124 said:
I agree with what azzledazzle said.
I don't want to upload important data to newer / lesser known cloud storage.
I already have Google Drive (use it to store important data, weekly reports etc) and Box and Drop Box : use it to share data.
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Some people actually do not use online storage for sensitive data. I'm uploading old videos right now, they take up a lot of space so this is pretty useful.
Please click my referral link so I get more storage!
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Too low download speed
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In my case I had to activate proxy (settings / proxy) to download files to my full speed. If you want me to check my Public folders can be searched as: kazutoaoi
I'm using Dropsync, and I have to say it's pretty awesome.
My folder pics http://kazutoaoi.minus.com/
What kind of things are people using for a back-end? I have an idea for an app, but it would need a database and service to handle requests / push messages. Google and Amazon's respective cloud services would obviously work but I can't help thinking they are a little "heavy" for something when just starting out.
I'm sure there must be a million startups offering these kind of things; recommendations?
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What kind of things are people using for a back-end? I have an idea for an app, but it would need a database and service to handle requests / push messages. Google and Amazon's respective cloud services would obviously work but I can't help thinking they are a little "heavy" for something when just starting out.
I'm sure there must be a million startups offering these kind of things; recommendations?
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You can try urbanairship.com for pushing messages
jmbillings said:
What kind of things are people using for a back-end? I have an idea for an app, but it would need a database and service to handle requests / push messages. Google and Amazon's respective cloud services would obviously work but I can't help thinking they are a little "heavy" for something when just starting out.
I'm sure there must be a million startups offering these kind of things; recommendations?
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Look no further than parse.com it does backend services, push and analytics for free.
shortshift said:
Look no further than parse.com it does backend services, push and analytics for free.
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Nice looking site; i'll read through it and take a look. Thanks for the heads-up!
Are these paid services like Parse and Urban Airship the only way to do push notifications?
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Are these paid services like Parse and Urban Airship the only way to do push notifications?
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Some of them seem to offer a free tier for low traffic levels- nice for a proof of concept. For any useful amount of traffic that server time and bandwidth has to be paid for by someone though...
sanopush.com
jmbillings said:
What kind of things are people using for a back-end? I have an idea for an app, but it would need a database and service to handle requests / push messages. Google and Amazon's respective cloud services would obviously work but I can't help thinking they are a little "heavy" for something when just starting out.
I'm sure there must be a million startups offering these kind of things; recommendations?
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You can try this for free: sanopush.com, even more it's cross platform.
If you do end up rolling your own, an alternative to Amazon is DigitalOcean. You get a VPS based entirely on fast flash drives for $5 a month.
I have been using ALL IN ONE TOOLBOX, which does a pretty good job, but is there something way better I should know about?
(that doesn't take over your phone with ads)
montereysid said:
I have been using ALL IN ONE TOOLBOX, which does a pretty good job, but is there something way better I should know about?
(that doesn't take over your phone with ads)
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If you talk about ram clean up apps I can tell you that those app aren't useful , 'cause Android manage the memory pretty well itself . Those apps are only made for commercial purpose such as display ads or sell your usage information to third party ( see the privacy policy for more info)
But if you want an app that help you to deal with space and clean up your memory , Google File Go is a good free app that help you dealing with app's cache and other hidden files.
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If you talk about ram clean up apps I can tell you that those app aren't useful , 'cause Android manage the memory pretty well itself . Those apps are only made for commercial purpose such as display ads or sell your usage information to third party ( see the privacy policy for more info)
But if you want an app that help you to deal with space and clean up your memory , Google File Go is a good free app that help you dealing with app's cache and other hidden files.
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I removed all in one toolbox, to try Google FIles Go, but it's very basic and doesn't really do much.
I think I liked all-in-one-toolbox better...
but yea, they are more promotional
there must be something way better than both those...
montereysid said:
I removed all in one toolbox, to try Google FIles Go, but it's very basic and doesn't really do much.
I think I liked all-in-one-toolbox better...
but yea, they are more promotional
there must be something way better than both those...
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Hope you'll find it