Application developer reinvent keyboards in response to iOS8 … – Reuters

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

Write on a screen smartphone can be a challenge. The fingertips are larger than the size of the fields of literature and the probability of leaving the syllables exchanged or incomplete is great. Adding to this difficulty, there are systems of self-correction that can make the worst job. With the possibility of being able to add third party manufacturers of keyboards in iOS or Android systems, application developers are betting alternatives.

                     

                          iOS8 Apple offers users of iPhones and iPads, a new way of writing text. The system suggests words while writing which decreases the amount of touches and protects the user and any spelling errors. The system provides what you will write based on previous conversations and sentence construction typical user. The iOS8 still has the ability to analyze the writing style when writing an SMS or send an email. In the first case suggests more relaxed and more careful in the second language, for example words.

already submitted but yet to launch Android L, minimalist look of the keyboard allows you to type words by dragging your finger over the letters, now more precisely. These characteristics are similar to those included in SwiftKey, a free keyboard that has been the second choice of most users that use Google’s operating system. SwiftKey, whose application can also be downloaded on devices with iOS8 also makes a kind of prediction that will write. The Keypad “perceives” how to write the user and suggests words and more precise intelligent autocorrecções, which makes the writing faster.

Speed ​​and best autocorrecções are also the objectives of Minuum first released for the iPhone but now available for Android devices. As stated in the description of the application on Google Play, this keyboard takes up less than half a screen smartphone but allows typing with speed due to its system of self-correction. Like the competition can predict the user’s writing habits and suggests options for up to 10 words. You can experience the Minuum for free for 30 days but the application then passes the keyboard costing 1.99 euros.

Among the keyboards that have become popular Swype is still compatible with iOS devices , Android, Symbian and Windows. You drag your finger over the letters instead of writing and using a keyboard algorithm predicts the word you want to type based on the intersection of the letters on which fingers go. Aaron Sheedy, vice president of Nuance, the company that created the application, considers Reuters sliding your fingers on the screen is a more natural function to click on the keys. “The organic nature of touchscreens is to drag and slide. But as soon as we open the keyboard have to use both hands and put our thumbs in an unnatural position to start typing. ” Sheedy explains that aims to understand the words Swype user and writes like this. This keyboard is free for a month but then has a cost of 75 cents.

Another option is the TouchPal free for iOS and Android. You slide your finger over the letters and the words most used starting with certain letter appear to expedite the writing. To choose a number or symbol just drag your finger up or down, respectively, without having to jump to another screen with a second keyboard.

At the top of the chosen applications keyboard is still the Flesky and GIF Keyboard. The Flesky costs 2.99 euros, but can be tried for 30 days can determine which word you want to write even if the user touches the wrong letters. Works through a unique system of gesture which makes the task easier. It is also possible to adapt the writing style of the user on the keyboard to social networks and email service through My Flesksy Cloud.

For those who do not want to write or think the emojis, those little yellow smiles, can not transmit exactly what you mean, there’s the GIF Keyboard for iPhone. The keyboard allows you to send GIFs in the text field and use the iMensagem GIFs that you’ve enjoyed on other platforms. Lets work even on WhatsApp, Twitter, and Email SnapChat.

yet for Android, there is ai. type. It also allows the user to use the keyboard only with the slide of fingers and predicts what you want to write this after becoming acquainted with the type of writing user. The keyboard still does the instant correction of spelling and grammar.