Ondrej Holzman In iOS 8, iPhone and iPad users will finally be able to choose which keyboards they want to type on, just as Android users have been able to for years. Two of the most popular alternative keyboards - SwiftKey and Swype - are coming out today and will be almost free. SwiftKey is completely free, Swype will cost less than one euro.
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We are talking about the fact that the SwiftKey keyboard will come out with the new iOS 8 informed already last week, as well as unfortunately it will not support the Czech language in the first version, but the developers still kept secret what the price of the keyboard would be. Now we already know this last piece of information – SwiftKey will be free.
SwiftKey will work in applications across the entire system, it will be possible to switch between keyboards by holding down the traditional globe on the classic basic keyboard, which, however, gets a number of improvements in iOS 8, but again, not so useful for Czech users. A big advantage of SwiftKey is the support of a cloud synchronization service, thanks to which you can synchronize your already saved words, which you have already learned on Android with SwiftKey, for example, to iOS devices, but also between them.
So far, that's an advantage over another alternative keyboard, Swype, which also comes out today with iOS 8. But unlike SwiftKey, it will cost 79 cents and doesn't yet have cloud sync. Like SwiftKey, Swype is a very popular choice among Android users, thanks to the fact that you don't have to type out every single letter, you just slide your finger over the keyboard and it automatically recognizes what you want to write.
The first versions of both keyboards are certainly not the last. Both SwiftKey and Swype are preparing a lot of news for the following updates, at least in the first case we should hopefully see Czech before too long, Swype is preparing for example by supporting cloud synchronization. Czech language support for the second keyboard is not yet certain in the first version.
Personally, I have not used alternative keyboards on any device or OS. We'll see
When should they release iOS8 for download?
I've been checking for updates since morning and still nothing.
at 10am pacific time. so it should be here six hours later. so 4-5pm I hope:D
the difference is from 9 o'clock, so at 19 p.m. at the earliest
jj, in previous years it was always around 19:22, I always managed to download it around XNUMX:XNUMX
After the experience of the past years, I will update tomorrow morning, when the Apple servers will be less busy.
Oh well, last time they fell like plums
The new product will be available for download for the general public from 19:XNUMX our time.
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swype is a perfect way of writing, I'm really looking forward to it, but without Czech it's practically useless :(
Why such nonsense, he can dictate in Czech...
That's how I want to see it, I will dictate at a meeting, or on a bus, subway, train, cinema, theater, funeral, and others.
so he already mastered the Czech language, but he wants to be online on a fast connection...
I don't know if it's a reaction to me, because I didn't write anything about technique, but about suitability. Specifically, I want to see how Cimbal will dictate a message at a church funeral, or an email, when writing is crap...
misunderstanding - suitability is of course the other side of the matter ..
So hopefully someone will finally make a usable multitap keyboard with Czech T9, like it can be on Android. You simply can't write quickly on the miniature qwerty with one hand in the tram. That's the only thing I miss a few years after switching from HTC.
A little off topic, but someone might be interested :)
The 1Password app is currently free for iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1password-password-manager/id568903335?mt=8
great thanks (although I have, but I know who will appreciate it) :)
thank you for the info
soooo
I read somewhere that it is free, but then you will have to buy a premium package, which is now free to try for a while. I don't know what the truth is.
you're probably right... So now it's free for everyone and anyone who wants can use in-app purchase
I found this on their website:
The free edition can create Logins, Identities, Credit Cards, and Secure Notes, and use those items in Safari and other apps. It can also sync with 1Password for Mac, Windows, and Android.
For a one-time in-app purchase in version 5, Pro features unlock the full power of 1Password 5 for iOS. You can:
Create the full range of items including Bank Accounts, Email Accounts, Memberships, Passports, Reward Programs, Wireless Routers, Software Licenses, and many more.
Organize your items with folders and tags.
Create and add Multiple Vaults.
Add custom fields to all items.
Support a great company with world-class human-powered customer service that loves you. Yes, including you.
So what about the sheep, wash, pee, have your mother check your homework for tomorrow, and in your pajamas start sucking iOS-8 in the evening among the first, so that tomorrow at school you will shine in front of those android socks.
… and then you woke up and your hand was in the potty…
Oh, another android sheep, that you still enjoy it...
Hopefully the Czech language will be available soon. I'm used to swype from Android. I bought it, although my last 2 phones already had swype in the base (Xperia), so a database from these phones would be useful. But whatever, I'll teach her again :) Above all, let the Czech be there.
I have no experience, but it looks interesting.. we'll see :)
I don't have a very good feeling about these keyboards, especially the Flexy one for less than a euro, although I bought it, but it immediately required some kind of permission so that vivojar can control what I do on the keyboard. In fact, in my opinion, Apple should not have allowed this, it should have created its own and integrate it into the system or pay a developer to do it for them, and not this. I don't know, maybe it's not as bad as I think, but it didn't inspire confidence in this type of keyboard, and even if it throws up a window that I allow the developer to he can check what I'm doing and what's on the keyboard, I'd rather remove it and regret buying it. Unless it's integrated directly into iOS, I don't want it, I often use the internet bank on my phone and in this case it's unthinkable for me use a keyboard where the developer can control how I log in to the internet bank. I hope that Apple will come to its senses and ban this
If the developer indicates in the application that a password or other sensitive data is entered in a field, iOS will automatically use the system keyboard. For example, when entering a password in 1Password, it works like this. A banking application, if well written, will do this too (unless it has its own keyboard built right into it).