What's You Favorite Android Keyboard?...

[PsychDoc]

...The stock keyboard is pretty lame. Right now I'm using the free version of Swift Key. Love it. But I'm wondering what the rest of you prefer.

TIA

 

[TheBrit]

Swype

 

[Ngo93]

im constantly switching between gingerbread keyboard, swype and 8pen, hehe i do love choices XD

 

[RedneckDroid]

Swype has to be my favorite. It makes me feel lazy now when I type on a keyboard because I ACTUALLY have to pick my fingers up..what is this the stone age!?!

 

[takeshi]

Swype. If you really want to know what people are using then check out the existing threads. There's plenty of discussion on various keyboard apps out there.

 

[B2L]

SwiftKey definitely. The suggestions are freaking awesome.

 

[PsychDoc]

SwiftKey definitely. The suggestions are freaking awesome.

Yeah, I've tried a few and eaach seem to have their own assetts and shortcomings. So far SwiftKey is far and away my favorite. Played with Swype a few times and really didn't care for it.

 

[Colchicine]

I use Swype 99% of the time.

I tried really hard to do 8pen, although I could do it well enough to have fun with it, I wasn't fast enough to justify using it.

 

[nyydynasty]

used to be swype but lately, I've been using FlexT9.

 

[log1c]

Swype

 

[ninja_reject]

I switch a lot, HTC stock, better keyboard 8, open wnn flick support or multling for Japanese, and swiftkey. I have to switch, sometimes with certain apps, my keyboard won't do any auto-correct! It'll work for one of my keyboards, but not another, and there's no rhyme or reason to which will work.

 

[Sokudo Ningyou]

FlexT9 right now. It's nice to have all those different input options in one app.

 

[jae_63]

FlexT9. The Swype-like recognition is good, and the speech recognition is fabulous; much better than Google's. I can dictate a paragraph of a few sentences (as a single dictation) and then only need to make a few manual corrections.

I do wish that FlexT9 was as good as Swype with regards to the mechanics of fixing errors.

 

[UniR]

Swype, but it is so easy to make a swypo.

 

[wmm]

I've used Swype, SlideIT, and FlexT9 and have settled for the moment on FlexT9. I really prefer the suggestion bar to the pop-up style suggestions in Swype, and it's nice not having to squiggle for double letters and swoop down for the apostrophe in contractions. I do miss the numeric and cursor control keypads that Swype has, though.

I also use Hacker's Keyboard with ConnectBot for SSH, since it allows input of control characters and ESC without a trackball, which my current phone does not have. It works quite well, but the keys are too small for use on a regular basis.

Finally, I also use Inserty to facilitate entering frequently-used difficult-to-type phrases like my email address and passwords, as well as things like the current date and time.

If I add any more keyboards to my phone, my "input method" pop-up won't all fit on one screen any more!

 

[Tre Lawrence]

Still use Swype, but my current favorite is Gingerbread kb.

 

[lexluthor]

FlexT9.

I do wish that FlexT9 was as good as Swype with regards to the mechanics of fixing errors.

Switched from Swype to FlexT9 as well.

I think when you have to tap out a word instead of swyping it, the FlexT9 keyboard is so much better than Swype.

When you miss a mistake with FlexT9 though, you can't click on the word and then pull up alternates, like swype. You have to delete and re-swipe it.

I'm still going back and forth, but been using FlexT9 mostly.

I'm hoping one of the 2 is going to have a killer update that winds up putting it ahead for good.

I also hate how both save tapped out words automatically in the dictionary. I wind up with hmmmm and awwww and things like that in my dictionary. I think though with FlexT9 those come up a lot less in the word choice windows. I'm just thinking now how that doesn't seem to bother me as much on FlexT9 as on Swype.

 

[Colchicine]

Thanks for the recommendations of the FlexT9. I've been a Dragon Naturally Speaking user for 8 years now and this is made by the same company (Nuance). Sometimes I just need to tap the keyboard, so this would be great.

 

[jae_63]

I'm a longtime NaturallySpeaking user as well. In a post above, I mentioned dictating a paragraph; as in NaturallySpeaking, this works best if you explicitly dictate your punctuation when dictating to FlexT9. E.g. (quoting Churchill):

From now on comma ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put period
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[|Jeff|]

Thanks to it being free on the Amazon App store one day I am a SwiftKey convert. Once you let it learn how you speak/type it really comes in handy.

 

[Gary5]

I have big hands and a normal size phone. The only portrait keyboard I can use is Keypurr. I use Swype for landscape, and Keyboard Manager to auto-select them based on orientation.

 

[hkay1]

I use SlideIT and prefer it greatly over Swype. Might check out FlexT9 though.

 

[The_Superhoo]

SwiftKey definitely. The suggestions are freaking awesome.

tried it and got rid of it. I typed too fast for it, and it would autocorrect my words to things I did not mean to type, nor would I notice until it was sent. annoying

 

[mauiblue]

If you can find it (it's on the Internet) Shapewriter is my favorite of all five text input keyboards I have on my Incredible. Swype and Swiftkey are tied for second.

 

[sadielynn]

Just got SwiftKey X beta-im in love!