I'm really happy with my Poco F1 so far, but I've been stuck with a little dilemma.
I prefer using the gestures, they're very neat. However, disabling the on-screen buttons to enable gestures causes the keyboard to get jammed all the way down to the bottom of the screen:
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I have pretty huge hands and therefore it's extremely uncomfortable for me to type like this. I feel like my thumb is going to cramp up every time I need to hit the space bar.
Until now my solution has been to use SwiftKey in floating mode. That lets me raise the keyboard for more comfortable typing. But it causes a lot of other issues, since apps are unaware of how to handle the floating keyboard, I might end up typing behind the keyboard, also action buttons like "Post" and "Delete" will sometimes be hidden behind the keyboard.
I've tried things like raising the key height in Gboard and Swiftkey, but it doesn't help the extremely low bottom row. I'm looking for a keyboard that's capable of something similar to what the iPhone X(s) does. But I haven't yet managed to find any such keyboard for Android:
If anyone knows of a keyboard like this, I'd be very grateful.
The horrible typing experience is the only real gripe I have with the Poco F1 at the moment.
(And also the MIUI bugs, but hopefully MIUI 10 will help with those once it actually lands)
Try Smart Keyboard.
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Try Smart Keyboard.
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Thank you, this works quite well. I gave the trial a run for 10 minutes and bought the pro version.
It seems the app isn't that actively updated, but enabling the arrow row on the bottom and the padding makes for a far more comfortable typing experience than Gboard or SwiftKey.
Hopefully more updates land in the future, seems to have been about a year since the last one.
I'm using this
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Chrooma Keyboard makes it little more comfortable. But I feel your pain fella...
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Here is the newest TouchPal keyboard from China!
Download it from CooTek
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Far has I know it is still in beta over there in China.... but I can not read chinese....
Here are some pictures!
I really like this keyboard it has always been one of my favorites ever sense the first beta last year. now they have made lots of changes and it is even better.
When you install it it will be in chinese. you will need to go to settings and switch it to english.
Looks nice. Downloading now.
EDIT: Just tried it out for a while. Verdict: It's great!
Once you turn off the Chinese language, the text prediction is great, and the buttons are quick and responsive. I like the option to have different layouts for portrait vs. landscape (even though I just use QWERTY for both). The edit button is top center, and very handy, since I came from a G1 and the Vibrant has no trackball/d-pad to edit words. One note though, the delete button in Edit deletes the next character, not the previous. Not a huge deal, since the backspace on the keyboard still deletes the previous character and you could just select what you need to delete in the Edit screen, just a weird change. If you don't know what I mean, try it out yourself, it's worth a try at least
I love that style of keyboard with the two letters per key (Like on my original Blackberry Pearl).
@Phromik
Yeah it is a great little keyboard. my favorite feature is being able to swipe to change from T9 to QWERTY
OOOHHHHJMMMGMGKLNAD!!!!!! MY favorite keyboard in the world i can haz again!!! THanks OP!!!
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OOOHHHHJMMMGMGKLNAD!!!!!! MY favorite keyboard in the world i can haz again!!! THanks OP!!!
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I am new to the Android side of XDA just picked up my Vibrant 2 days ago and loving it.............
My favorite too......one of the first things I downloaded to my Vibrant and seems to work pretty well just missing the ability to save passwords or url or email adresses (one click entry in the username or password box for websites is really slick and I miss that the most). It is still beta so we will see if they implement it later on.
Link not working... looks fun though
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Go to Market and search for Touchpal... is in Chinese but you can change setting easily
Um, why does the app need access to Contacts and Voice Recorder?
I ask, because we (in the I.T. dept) are being bombarded by Chinese malware and such.
The permissions do seem a bit excessive for a keyboard.
Requires these permissions:
Your personal information
read contact data
Network communication
full Internet access, view network state, view Wi-Fi state
Hardware controls
control vibrator, record a
Can someone else confirm this...
When using the portrait (small) keyboard when typing a text message, if I press the "P" button anywhere to the left of center (say the left 30% of the button), I get an "O" instead. It looks like the letter "O" will get pressed if you press anything from the left of the "O" button all the way to almost the middle of the "P" button. To get "P" reliably, I have to press the right half of the "P" button.
Is this by design? Is it supposed to favor "O" over "P"? Or is my tilted/rotated screen causing this?
Mike
Mine does it too, only with the O and the P.
me too..................
Use swype
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Some times my delete button registers as L. It happened with multiple keyboards.
Calibrating the Keyboard helps.
Yea always calibrate the keyboard It's helps. At first I was typing everything off and since It's been nearly perfect.
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Perhaps the guy has big hands. But calibrating does do wonders,try it and let us know your results
I tried calibrating a half dozen times. It does help a tiny bit but not much: I still get a "preferred O". Plus: calibration only works for the stock keyboard and I prefer the Gingerbread Keyboard from the market.
Mike
Calibrating completely fixed it for me.
Yeah that fouled up Gingerbread Keyboard...meh.
LOL j/k
The Stock we have is just a refined/skinned version of it.
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Everyone else has mentioned it, but I will too.
I've always calibrated the keyboard with a new phone or new ROM. The only disadvantage is when someone else uses it. My wife hates trying to type anything on it.
im looking for a developer with some android background who could help to implement some changes regarding per app dpi as explained here.
what this will do is break free what many have come to call "tablet mode" but this time without blowing the phone to bits. we could have the best of both worlds: tablet UI, tablet apps (gapps, settings, youtube, everything tablet HD & related) and normal apps running in their default layouts. the problem is that google created a hole between tiny phones from 2005 and big tablets. all our phones fall in it. it makes no sense that a nexus for instance runs in 1-column layout, its ridiculous actually for such a huge screen. tablet mode, as it is right now, helps, but it forces non-tablet apps into tiny layouts.
now we've had some success with our manual mod and even some dev's jumped in to adapt their apps, nova for instance is now tablet mode ready. but we just need to dig further. without per app dpi this will only be interesting for a small audience. with the setting in check it will probablby blow over and re-define ICS as we know it.
i managed to compile cm9 and im learning how to deal with it but its so much. a simple grep for stuff takes like an hour because its gigabytes of code. it grows way over my head right now. i think i've found A. the position where the treshold for the tablet switch is implemented which could be lowered and B. how to implement individual DPI but there's stuff missing. anyone who's interested to help or lead us in this, please contact me.
ps. what we'll get will look like this:
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with that setting it could be like that on all phones, not just high density ones like nexus.
thanks!
Having just spent $20 on 8 different keyboards and trying various 'free' keyboards as well, Im wondering what you all find works well for the Note.
Right now, I find Better Keyboard 8.9.9 on the Amazon Market ($3) the keyboard that is working well for me, primarily because it extends the size of the 2nd and third row keys to fit the phone's width which makes the keys easier to hit. All the settings are stock except I disabled auto correct as it keeps changing my abbreviations to words I dont intend (bldg for example keeps getting changed to either bulldog or another word that is slipping my mind).
Supposedly Swiftkey has very good text prediction which might be interesting but I havent used it enough yet to know. Not yet sure the difference between the tablet version ($3) and the phone version (free) nor do I know which I should use for the Note. My assumption is the $3 version would offer more than the free version but I havent had a chance to look at it.
Of course, one of the other things about the keyboard stuff is that it requires using for a few days to determine if a keyboard is working for you.
Im also looking for a good speech to text app, it needs to be something I can select from the keyboard when it appears - ie. clicking the little microphone in the corner on whatever keyboard appears (not sure if Android lets you use a custom keyboard and change the voice recognition app from Google Voice to something else). It is important to be able to toggle the voice recognition from the keyboard as I am using some custom software on my Android phone for work that requires me to do text entry, the app does not support anything other than a keyboard meaning that I want to bring the keyboard up, tap the mic in the corner, say what I need to and have that automatically put into the field. Google Voice is ok but Im wondering if there isnt something better.
My favorite by far is the tablet Swype beta. Some people find the keys to be too small, but I find that it works great for me, and my fingers are fat. Also, using the spen makes it the fastest and most accurate text entry method I have used by far. It also includes speech to text through dragon dictate, which can be activated by the key on the keyboard and is very accurate, more accurate than the stock android voice recognition in my opinion. Here is a picture of the keyboard:
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Try These Uncommon Keyboards on Your Honor 8The default keyboard for the Honor 8 is fine, but I have always been using the Google keyboard. I switched to this keyboard on my device but I figured I might as well try some more uncommon keyboards that might be better. Here are some of the keyboards that I recommend you try out on your Honor 8.
Chroma KeyboardSince the Honor 8 has an AMOLED screen, you might want to check out this keyboard as it has a theme to take advantage of AMOLED displays. By only illuminating the letters, you'll get a really nice minimalist look while saving a bit on battery.
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Download Chroma Keyboard here.
Minuum KeyboardThe display on the Honor 8 is smaller than what you might be used to. This keyboard can be compacted to a very small size and still be very functional. This way you'll have as much screen space as possible for messaging or browsing the web.
Download Minuum Keyboard here.
FancyKey KeyboardThis is just a fun keyboard with tons of really cool themes. I especially like that the themes will come with animations for pressing buttons. When I use my keyboard, little bubbles pop where my fingers are tapping. Pretty satisfying and unique way to use a keyboard.
Download FancyKey Keyboard here.
Fleksy KeyboardThis keyboard just has a very sleek look. The keys are very large and using it allows me to type very fast and accurately. There's also a gif menu that is very similar to the one you'd use on twitter.
Download Fleksy Keyboard here.
Nicely put up thanks
thanks for sharing
Honor 8 has a IPS LCD not amoled, but it does look very Amoled.
But thanks for the suggestions.
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Honor 8 has a IPS LCD not amoled, but it does look very Amoled.
But thanks for the suggestions.
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ya. the saturation of the display mimics that of amoled, bt they could have made viewing angles better
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ya. the saturation of the display mimics that of amoled, bt they could have made viewing angles better
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I dont find it to bad, better than my old P8lite
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I dont find it to bad, better than my old P8lite
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yes indeed:good:
Fancykey is my fav between them