Keyboards?

[Methos1979]

I've used Gboard, Swiftkey and Swype and for 'gesture' typing Swype is still the best for me. Just finished yet another round of A/B/C'ing all three against each other and for me Swype won again.

 

[Note8uzer]

I use A.I. keyboard. It's very customizable.

 

[SpaceyO]

Another vote for SwiftKey here...

 

[gyounk]

Samsung native keyboard with spen handwriting to text support is the best so I use it only.

 

[dunamis]

I'm using SwiftKey but notice there's a delay when typing something and then going to home. The keyboard lags about a sec before disappearing? Anybody else?

 

[Amele]

I like the stock keyboard and it works well with the Spen and Bixby but does anyone know if the colors of the high contrast keyboard can be changed, and if so how?

 

[magichoward]

I believe if you install a theme they will include the samsung keyboard

 

[boriqua2000]

SwiftKey

 

[J R Wesson]

SwiftKey, with a swiftness.
But why did I tap on this? It's true, I told SwiftKey she was the one, and I'll never even look at another keyboard again because I found her, my one and only, I've never been more certain of it.
It took a lot of pain and even more medication, both conventional and Chinese and experimental in the form of LSD. I finally broke my addiction to keyboard porn, and I once knew it like I know my own right hand that I'd never live long enough to hear myself say that. It was far harder than the addiction to alcohol, but I beat that, too. I also spent a fortune on professional mental health care, everything and anything to show her I meant every word and intended to keep every promise.
Now I have to know more about what Gboard can do and has to offer a tired, tattered and beaten old heart that begs surrender. It's finally had enough, and only wants to be remembered for what we've done for love. I just never thought to try Gb because I'm one of those that cannot get the hang of swiping after 30+ years of typing, and my impression was that Gboard was a swifter's keyboard only, by design.
Now I have to know, I have to give Gboard a chance, much as I don't like trying something from scratch, and especially after getting used to SwiftKey getting used to the way I convey myself to.. mostly myself.
However, be forewarned that if this leads to me destroying my s7e along with my relationship to Swifty due to unforeseen things like my well documented mental judo with the angst, the painful frustrations with the internals of my instinctive need to try new technologies and upgrades of everything in Play Store, and my desperate wants of keeping things plain and boring and simple and the same across years & decades - just like my old man - despite science demanding that better=faster=smarter=fun= wait, science just said belay my last because the new, upgraded better=...
Well, I'll have no option except to hold OP personally responsible for the increase in migraines, panic attacks and Xanax intake.
Conversely, should I be surprised to find that Gboard was the one true love I almost never knew and died without, OP will need to forward mailing address to claim my lifetime prescription for Xanax, as I shan't be needing one more ever again.
Now, please don't take this personally, SwiftKey. And please, don't rub my nose in my poopy promises, I know what I've said, what I've sworn to you. Yes, my darling, I'm afraid so, but I have to. And we need to take a break from each other, anyway. No, of course not, I swear some more and I promise again, it's not you. It's always me. But if you really love something, blah blah blah...
Sigh... onto the Play Store...

JЯW

 

[1BassJohn]

It's a lot smoother than SwiftKey too..I find SwiftKey causes some serious lag on phones. I love it.. Just can't use it anymore

 

[donm527]

I'm about to give up on the Samsung keyboard after really wanting to stay OEM because as much as I like Swiftkey I am concerned about it generating lag. I'll probably try Gboard again but for some reason last time I used it back when I had G2 or G3 it really didn't wow me.

The word prediction with Samsung keyboard is really poor.

And when it tries to suggest/autocorrect a word, with other keyboards I can backspace a letter and correct myself for the word I want and keep going. But Samsung doesn't take the hint and keep on autocorrecting back to the wrong word and I have to backspace and manual correct a few times until it gets the hint and stops replacing my word. Very annoying when and I don't want to press the 'check' box to add to dictionary.

Last thing is that I find myself hitting the ',' button instead of the space bar using left thumb. I really don't know if using another keyboard will really fix but I wish the space bar was wider or if I could customize and move ',' button over to right of space bar. All,my,sentences,end,up,looking,like,this,lol.

 

[billykac]

It's a lot smoother than SwiftKey too..I find SwiftKey causes some serious lag on phones. I love it.. Just can't use it anymore

Agree.

If you open a doc more than a few pages, Swiftkey just stutters and comes to a complete halt. It has been this way for years/years. It's how the app handles memory - which is very poorly.

If the extent of your keyboard input relatively short text, you'll be fine with Swiftkey. Any more than that, and it just doesn't work - and they know it - full well. Just plain bad software design, and an unwillingness to re-architect their core code base.

Too bad, 'cause SK prediction is the best, IMO.

So, it's GBoard for me, for years now.

 

[chanchan05]

Agree.

If you open a doc more than a few pages, Swiftkey just stutters and comes to a complete halt. It has been this way for years/years. It's how the app handles memory - which is very poorly.

If the extent of your keyboard input relatively short text, you'll be fine with Swiftkey. Any more than that, and it just doesn't work - and they know it - full well. Just plain bad software design, and an unwillingness to re-architect their core code base.

Too bad, 'cause SK prediction is the best, IMO.

So, it's GBoard for me, for years now.

Bad luck for you I guess. I'm using Swiftkey beta and I just tried a 101 page document and no lag on my end. Although I've been switching between Gboard and Swiftkey, what got me sticking with Swiftkey for now is the lack of thumb tablet format on Gboard. Since I like the learned words syncing across my devices, Swiftkey for my tablet means Swiftkey for my phone.

 

[billykac]

Bad luck for you I guess. I'm using Swiftkey beta and I just tried a 101 page document and no lag on my end. Although I've been switching between Gboard and Swiftkey, what got me sticking with Swiftkey for now is the lack of thumb tablet format on Gboard. Since I like the learned words syncing across my devices, Swiftkey for my tablet means Swiftkey for my phone.

You know, I haven't tried the latest version of SK, so you may be right.

I too have a large doc that I am in almost every day, about 150 pages. But back when it was just a fraction of that, SK never worked. I worked closely with the SK folks to identify the problem and for them to sort it out. I did that for years, I kept coming back to SK only to find out that they just never addressed this well-documented problem. I guess I have such a bad taste that I just haven't tried it again in the past year. So again, it may be fixed now.

OT: A shout out to a previous poster...

THANKS!! for the reminder that Google Handwriting input is still in this world. I forgot all about it after I moved away from the Note series with the N7. Geez, Google's handwriting recognition is crazy fast and accurate. Plus, Samsung's cool icon in the lower right corner of the screen makes flipping between keyboards a breeze. Thanks again for that reminder!!

 

[polbit]

I can't really pinpoint what it is with the Samsung keyboard, but I just can't type accurately with it, and word prediction definitely sucks. I tried it for a week.

GBoard for me, but I do miss the long-press symbols from the Samsung keyboard.

 

[chanchan05]

I can't really pinpoint what it is with the Samsung keyboard, but I just can't type accurately with it, and word prediction definitely sucks. I tried it for a week.

GBoard for me, but I do miss the long-press symbols from the Samsung keyboard.

Not sure what you mean here. Gboard has long press for symbols.

 

[aldo82]

I've tried to stick with the Samsung keyboard but I do miss gboard. I like the look of the Samsung keyboard and it works well a lot of the time but it can cause some major frustrations and silly errors

 

[polbit]

Not sure what you mean here. Gboard has long press for symbols.

Wow, learned something new today, thanks! Never realized that enabling long-press for symbols actually showed them...

 

[DARK Vader777]

My hands are huge. I have found I get the most accuracy out of GBoard.
I have Swiftkey too, and Samsung's keyboard.
Just imo, GBoard works better.
And it has gifs.
But I make my own now with the Spen.

 

[Super Dave426]

I'll have to try GBoard again, always use SwiftKey but it's seems to get a little buggy. Supposed to double tap the spacebar and a period will be inserted, never works. Also have had a few crashes. I do like the arrow row and numbers on top, it's what brings me back.