Seeking SwiftKey enthusiasts

IamPrad · Jul 31, 2015

Hello my fellow Android enthusiasts!

I'm Ryan, the Community Manager at SwiftKey. After speaking to the great admins here, I have something I'd like to announce to this community.

We're starting a SwiftKey ambassador program and are looking for a few SUPER SwiftKey fans to kick it off.

Just a few notes on what we want to accomplish with this.

We want to have an AF community member help be the bridge of communication between this community and SwiftKey.

Let us know about major pain points, bugs, feature requests, general discussions, etc. You will have direct access to SwiftKey staff and be able to help answer questions to the community.

We are not using this as a marketing gimmick, but as a way to involve SwiftKey deeper into the Android community.

If you're interested, please shoot me a PM and I can let you know the next steps from there.

Looking forward to getting to know more members of the community.

Best,

Ryan and the Community Team

EDIT: Please feel free to share this, mention this to anyone who you think would be a good fit. We're looking for someone who is an active member of this community.

codesplice · Jul 31, 2015

Welcome aboard Ryan

I know we've got a LOT of avid SwiftKey users hanging around here. Hope your inbox doesn't overflow.

IamPrad · Jul 31, 2015

codesplice said:
Welcome aboard Ryan

I know we've got a LOT of avid SwiftKey users hanging around here. Hope your inbox doesn't overflow.

It would be a happy problem! Thanks for the support from your team.

vosg · Aug 1, 2015

I love Swiftkey and use it a lot, except when typing on this forum. It doesn't work well...

mraamohamed · Aug 1, 2015

I use always and have not found an app It does not work in.

El Presidente · Aug 2, 2015

I'm game!

PM'd.

Thom · Aug 2, 2015

I PMd also.

I use SwitftKey 99% of the time. I have one (two?) issue(s) with it ... it inserts a space with a substitution ... it sometimes inserts a space with a period.

This is deadly when passing a parameter in Java or Tasker. This is cumbersome when entering a search arguments at times.

The string ...
some.name@gmail.com
... is transformed into ...
some. name@gmail.com
... that is not no spaces added ... that is not two spaces added ... that is one space added.

My recommendation was to add an option to the main display to toggle space insertion on and off.

There is also a problem with Auto capitalization. It sometimes capitalizes when I don't want it to. I have to run with it turned off. (It is currently Settings | Advanced | Auto capitalization.)

My recommendation was to add an option to the main display to toggle the auto-capitalization on and off.

... Thom

mikedt · Aug 2, 2015

One thing I'd like to see in SwiftKey, is different personal word prediction profiles based on what particular app is being typed in. There's some words I'll often type in the browser, but I don't need to see them being suggested when using WeChat, QQ or Skype messaging.

I use SwiftKey 100%, for English and Chinese.

Soapm · Aug 2, 2015

One suggestion, I have a Galaxy Tab S 8.4 running Lollipop 5.0.2 and it seems Samsung eliminated spell check with the red squiggly line and replaced it with predictive text. I prefer correcting my errors after I get my complete thought written out.

Since predictive text appears to be the direction of the future, it would be nice if Swiftkey could enable the old style spell check for some of us loyal users and can't spell well enough to make predictive text productive.

IamPrad · Aug 3, 2015

Soapm said:
One suggestion, I have a Galaxy Tab S 8.4 running Lollipop 5.0.2 and it seems Samsung eliminated spell check with the red squiggly line and replaced it with predictive text. I prefer correcting my errors after I get my complete thought written out.

Since predictive text appears to be the direction of the future, it would be nice if Swiftkey could enable the old style spell check for some of us loyal users and can't spell well enough to make predictive text productive.

I think for the most part SwiftKey does a pretty good and correcting to the right word. But we are not a dictionary. Sometimes I personally will have to try and search Google for the correct spelling if I continue to butcher the word. While this may be beneficial to some, not sure it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. =/

Soapm · Aug 4, 2015

IamPrad said:
I think for the most part SwiftKey does a pretty good and correcting to the right word. But we are not a dictionary. Sometimes I personally will have to try and search Google for the correct spelling if I continue to butcher the word. While this may be beneficial to some, not sure it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. =/

I hear you, but for the record, I wasn't looking for a dictionary, just a red squiggly line to indicate a word is spelt wrong. That's all... I can take it from there, I just need it to proof read my work and identify areas of opportunity. With my no spelling self, I might see a word like "whith" and not notice a problem... That's one problem I have with predictive text, the second problem I have is when you paste in text, nothing to make words stand up and be noticed...

But I'll keep looking for a solution that doesn't require a separate spell check application...

IamPrad · Aug 4, 2015

Soapm said:
I hear you, but for the record, I wasn't looking for a dictionary, just a red squiggly line to indicate a word is spelt wrong. That's all... I can take it from there, I just need it to proof read my work and identify areas of opportunity. With my no spelling self, I might see a word like "whith" and not notice a problem... That's one problem I have with predictive text, the second problem I have is when you paste in text, nothing to make words stand up and be noticed...

But I'll keep looking for a solution that doesn't require a separate spell check application...

That is pretty strange Samsung took that feature away? Are you positive they did? With the spelling example you used, whith, that is something SwiftKey would recognize and auto correct to the right spelling. Unless you have typed it and selected it enough times to where it gets added to your personal dictionary.

I'd say with my personal use of SK, I hardly insert a wrongly spelled word, sometimes it will auto correct to something different but not wrongly spelled.

For the copy and paste thing, i'm not entirely clear what you mean. Can you elaborate, please.

Hadron · Aug 4, 2015

Personally I just wish SwiftKey was a bit better at learning abbreviations such as "i.e." or "e.g.". It would have no problem if I didn't include the full stops, but old pedant that I am I can't do that.

I think it ought to be possible, since nobody ever ends a sentence with " I." or " e.", so if I type " " "i" followed by "." it should be recognisable what I'm aiming for (especially after correcting it a few times), but it seems unwilling to learn this (I always have to manually select the lower case letter then add the "." before it will even suggest "i.e" - " " "i" "." always results in " I." until I edit it).

Soapm · Aug 4, 2015

IamPrad said:
For the copy and paste thing, i'm not entirely clear what you mean. Can you elaborate, please.

Just an example, lets say I type some thoughts regarding a bible verse in evernote using my phone. I then copy and paste those thoughts into the corresponding verse using my tablet. I would like for the tablet to spell check the notes (insert the red squiggly lines) like you would see done in a word document.

Same with notes I might copy from a website etc...

Soapm · Aug 4, 2015

IamPrad said:
That is pretty strange Samsung took that feature away? Are you positive they did?

As far as I can tell and I've been told the feature is part of the ROM and not the keyboard as I thought.

Now I'm looking for a custom ROM that might have the feature enabled but I can't figure out how to tell what's in a ROM and I'm afraid to just start loading them without knowing how to get my current image back on my tablet.

MLSS · Aug 4, 2015

I have reported the same issue several times and it still hasn't been fixed.

gbsa · Aug 4, 2015

Here's the strange issue I'm having I've installed swift key on both my tablet running lolliepop and my phone running jellybean. It works much better on my tablet. It's so bad on my phone that I went back to swype. Which is a shame I really like the number row on top. They both have the same version 5.3.4.67

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