iOS Custom Keyboard Megathread

[Shawzborne]

I'm actually one of the creators of Type. With Type, you can change your keyboard's keys, background, and more coming soon! You can check us out at www.DownloadType.com. We're really excited to be launching soon and would love to have our keyboard featured on your list.

It's a wiki so you can add it to the post

 

[vexa27]

It's a wiki so you can add it to the post

It requires users to have posted more than 25 times, which I didn't.

 

[DrSD]

Guys, I don't know if its been talked about already,
but whats the icon under the scissors ?

 

[Ayr]

Guys, I don't know if its been talked about already,
but whats the icon under the scissors ?

Yeah what is that? Trackpad peripheral for handwriting on?

 

[Jessica Lares]

Guys, I don't know if its been talked about already,
but whats the icon under the scissors ?

Yeah what is that? Trackpad peripheral for handwriting on?

Annotation.

 

[Ayr]

Annotation.

How's it work? Click button, then you can place a note somewhere on the document?

 

[Shawzborne]

iOS 8 Custom Keyboard Megathread

How's it work? Click button, then you can place a note somewhere on the document?

It's built into the landscape mode for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ it has copy and paste buttons etc which they couldn't fit on the other screens

http://instagram.com/colorkeys

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It requires users to have posted more than 25 times, which I didn't.

I will add it to the list eventually I have to go to work and was in bed when I saw the link last night on Twitter


I'm adding this keyboard set (not sure how it looks or what it's called)

http://www.assistiveware.com/coming-soon-assistivewares-keyboards-ios-8

 

[Shawzborne]

iOS 8 Custom Keyboard Megathread

Download path before price possibly goes up [IOS -iPad only] PATH Input Swipe Keyboard - ridiculously priced, powerful keyboard technology. Get before iOS8 to be grandfathered in...[$19.99->FREE]

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/path-input-swipe-keyboard/id618909051?mt=8

 

[Ayr]

It's built into the landscape mode for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ it has copy and paste buttons etc which they couldn't fit on the other screens

http://instagram.com/colorkeys

Ah that's cool

 

[Sodner]

Ditto can't wait for swype!

The ONE thing I miss from my Droid. SWYPE!

 

[phillytim]

As an aside, there IS in fact a dictation button on the pictured keyboard. just above the happy face on the keyboards bottom-left!

Guys, I don't know if its been talked about already,
but whats the icon under the scissors ?

 

[fivedots]

As an aside, there IS in fact a dictation button on the pictured keyboard. just above the happy face on the keyboards bottom-left!

That's not a third party keyboard, that's the native one on the 6+.

 

[ross1998]

Are any of these swipe keyboards gonna be avaliable for free?

 

[phillytim]

Oh darn; well thanks for that correction!

That's not a third party keyboard, that's the native one on the 6+.

 

[Shawzborne]

Are any of these swipe keyboards gonna be avaliable for free?

Ya I'm sure at least one of them

 

[Telp]

Ya I'm sure at least one of them

On a related note, what are keyboard prices like on the Android store?

 

[Dan0]

I had a galaxy s5 and swype style keyboards the only thing I miss. I tried the main ones and found swift key to be the best and my personal favorite. Definitely going to use it on the new iphone 6. Swift key was free on android and had cheap in app purchases if you wanted different skins etc...

 

[DoctorFedora]

Annotation.

No, it's paste. That's a glue bottle.

 

[Shawzborne]

Un related but I love this

 

[Clete2]

This is majorly horrible that dictation isn't possible.

Directly from Apple's documentation:

Custom keyboards, like all app extensions in iOS 8.0, have no access to the device microphone, so dictation input is not possible.

Source:
https://developer.apple.com/library...eral/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html

Apple's feedback page:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/

 

[Apple blogger]

That theme board and space board look way too amazing

 

[fivedots]

This is majorly horrible that dictation isn't possible.

Directly from Apple's documentation:


Source:
https://developer.apple.com/library...eral/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/Keyboard.html

Apple's feedback page:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Apple needs to find a way to include the native dictation elsewhere, such as slide down from the voice message mic. This way it is accessible regardless of keyboard.

 

[Arndroid]

I wonder if the lack of diction is a security concern because you could potentially have a third party app make an audio recording without the user necessarily knowing about it.

Free keyboard and listening bug all in one.

I suspect better safe than sorry at this point until they can work on an alternative that is less risky. With the ability to customize the keyboard into pretty much anything it would be trivial to hide a dictation trigger.

I don't know if that us the reason. It could be a resource issue with the API or something else entirely

 

[pacorob]

I don't have enought posts so I cannot adjust the wiki TS. But some other iOS8 keyboards which are planned are:

Swipe/swype keyboard:
- Path Input | app (non iOS8 for now) | Twitter account

Other:
- One Keyboard
- Popkey

See also the links to their websites below

I think it would also be good to make a difference in the TS wiki between so called 'swipe' keyboards and other color/emoji/animation keyboards in my opinion.

I'm very curious how especially the swype keyboards below will work in iOS8 and if they will support a lot of languages from the start (especially my own language Dutch). I'm also wondering if this would costs more battery power then the standard keyboard i suppose so.

Swype keyboards:

- Swype
- Touchpal X
- Path Input | app (non iOS8 for now) | Twitter account
- Swiftkey / according to their blog unfortunately no Dutch language support as of 17-9, although they have Dutch support in Android version although 'swype/flow' function "Dutch * = no smartspace, no Flow" seems not working there?!

Other keyboard apps (without swype feature):
- Fleksy
- Taphive Themeboard
- Type
- One Keyboard
- Colorkeys
- Smile's TextExpender
- Popkey
- Roxie - emoji keyboard
- Ginger
- Minuum
- KuaiBoard (also know as QuickBoard)
- Hodor Keyboard
- AssistiveWare keyboard
- Adaptxt

Maybe also a good idea to post a few links in the TS which indicate

- how to install and use a custom keyboard - see this article on macrumors
- what you can do with a custom keyboard | link1
- what you can't do with a custom keyboard (in comparison to the standard Apple keyboard) | link1, link2

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

Times at which these keyboards will be released tomorrow???