Michal Ždanský In the App Store, you can currently find the vast majority of the most interesting keyboards, which until recently were only popular on the Android platform - SwiftKey, Swype or Fleksy. Unfortunately, most of them only supported a handful of the most popular languages at launch. The only exception was the Fleksy keyboard, which included Czech from the beginning. And while SwiftKey should soon receive additional languages, yesterday Nuance updated its Swype keyboard with 15 new languages, including Czech.
Unfortunately, you will not find Slovak among the remaining 14, so our eastern neighbors will have to wait a little longer for the swipe keyboard. In addition to new languages, Emoji help has also been added. The keyboard should recognize the mood of your sentence by itself, and in case of joy, it may automatically offer a smiley. In theory, the help should select the correct emoticon according to the written words, but it only works in a few selected languages. Another novelty is additional layouts, it is possible to choose between QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY variants. The iPad then gained access to all the colorful keyboard themes available on the iPhone.
The Czech version of Swype is practically the first possibility to try this way of writing in practice. You will have to get used to it in the first tens of minutes, but after a few hours or days you will easily get used to the new way and maybe you will start typing faster with one hand than with two thumbs. The Czech dictionary is very comprehensive and after a few hours of use I only had to add a few words to my personal dictionary. The algorithm that guesses the most appropriate word based on your swipe is surprisingly accurate, and I rarely had to correct a word. If Swype didn't guess the word correctly, it usually happened between the three on the bar above the keyboard, where you swipe left or right to switch between other suggested words.
Swype is an excellent alternative to the system keyboard, especially if you often type with one hand. As such, the Czech language in the application itself is a little weak, some phrases are not translated at all, others are translated incorrectly, but this does not change the functionality of the Czech keyboard, which works perfectly. You can find Swype in the App Store for €0,89.
[app url=https://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/swype/id916365675?mt=8]
It would probably be nice to mention that the Czech language can only be downloaded after you enable full access to the keyboard. So sending practically everything to developers…
Exactly, which is why I will never buy or install anything like this. And developers can brag all they want about not abusing the data.
That's a bit paranoid. Full access practically means that the keyboard has access to the Internet. Full access was not even needed for the languages supported so far, for Czech it is simply so that the application can download the Czech dictionary. Otherwise, Swype would take up too much space if it had to include dictionaries of all supported languages. The Czech dictionary alone takes up around 20 MB. Do you want to have 50 MB of unnecessary data for 500 languages? In addition, Nuance announced some time ago that all user data remains only on the device.
I think it's pointless to trivialize the information with paranoia :-) My point was that the Czech language is only available under certain conditions and it would be nice to know about this feature before buying...
After downloading Czech, you can turn off Full Access and the keyboard continues to work without any problems. So I stand behind the paranoia ;-)
It's okay that you stand for paranoia :-) I certainly won't talk you out of it :-) I'm talking about the fact that I won't get Czech by purchasing the application, I have to add something else - full access. Nothing more, nothing less :-)
You talked about sending user data to developers, hence the paranoia.
It's not like that with flexy, as soon as full access is turned off, the keyboard only speaks English :) so if it's different with Swype, all you have to do is say YAY :)
but you don't mind the fact that FB sends absolutely everything possible to target you with more accurate advertising? in that case, I would recommend you to disconnect from the Internet. totally because practically all sites today already have some kind of algorithm for targeted advertising.
So the keyboard will display an ad? Or why are you mixing advertising here? But after all, in the case of FB advertising, it's a win win - the advertiser wins because it really only attracts possible customers, and the recipient of the ad also wins - the ad is displayed to him in the range of what he is interested in.
So Facebook should primarily not send unhashed passwords, credit card details, etc. Does the keyboard send everything that was written to it or not?
It would be enough if apple released an update and prediction worked on their own keyboard as it works for example if we choose English.. I think most users would be satisfied and also those who are afraid to give full access to alternative options from the app store... me I personally regret the lack of Czech in the basic keyboard
That's exactly it. I prefer to write in English :-) I often use dictation for Czech. The prediction like it is in English is great and if it was for Czech, there is no need to look for another keyboard.
so hopefully swiftkey will come soon too .. but it looks promising :)
Half of the games that take up more space download various data from the Internet during the first launch or updates, and there was no talk of full access (eg Angry Birds Carts, Dungeon Hunter 4, etc.) Doesn't full access mean something else? I would assume that means full access from/to other apps. But that's just a guess.
Full access is only a matter of keyboards from the App Store, other applications are not affected.
The Path Input keyboard also has Czech from the beginning... (sniffing on the display is just great)
I downloaded swype and the whole message application has frozen several times... Nothing works...;-( I have to hard turn off the phone and turn it on again... I have an Iphone 5... Does anyone have any experience with this??? Thanks Katka
Just restart the message app itself or turn off/on the keyboard in the settings.