Comments | feoh: Oh Swype, Where Have You Been All My Life?

feoh

Oh Swype, Where Have You Been All My Life?

Mar 21, 2015 10:40

Originally published at Blind, Not Dumb. You can comment here or there.

For years my Android using friends have been revving about Swype.

When tablets and smartphones first appeared on the scene, many of us were so awash in the glow of our shiny new toys that we overlooked a glaring weak point - text input.

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lillibet March 21 2015, 17:09:25 UTC

I love Swype. The autocorrect can be annoying, but whenever I switch to using my laptop's touchscreen keyboard and it doesn't Swype, I remember how lucky I am.

perspicuity March 23 2015, 01:27:58 UTC

i'm glad it's it's finally on iOS...

but i heard a random review that said it was invasive?

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feoh March 24 2015, 16:33:13 UTC

[Hrrm. Replies to LJ comments in email used to work, and seemingly no longer do. Bummer :) ]

I'm not sure what that (invasive) means. It's a custom keyboard. IOS 8 provides support for them (finally! :) so you can switch in and out of Swype to your heart's content.

As a matter of fact I have to switch away from it when I'm using Skype because of a bug that makes the Send button vanish (I need to report that as a bug to them)

perspicuity March 24 2015, 23:28:14 UTC

well, a software keyboard, is a software...

recall reading that it had some kind of phone home metrics ability and there was fear that it could lead to key loggers and such weirdness. some of the kerfluffle was such that i set aside my intent to use right away, and waited. then i forgot :D

downloaded it actually, when it came out "free?", in case apple did a pullaroo... haven't actually installed it yet.

might be conflating with another "fancy" keyboard that i also DL'ed, that had a ton of gimmicks (lightshows, effects)...

send button - would there be a "send gesture", so you don't need send?

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feoh March 25 2015, 02:36:45 UTC

Sadly Skype is nowhere near that smart :) It's a craptastic app on every platform, and IOS is no exception.

Apparently this problem happens with every non native keyboard - users here:
http://community.skype.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-and-iPad/Send-button-disappears-when-using-Swype-on-iPad-or-iphone/td-p/3695409

say it also occurs with Swiftkey.

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