Comments on: New SwiftKey Flow Beta

By: Tajanator ★

Tajanator ★ — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:52:00 +0000

It should also be pointed out that the “flow” feature seems to shut off in texting too at times (I use Galaxy s3). I am not sure if this is just an error in the programming or if another one of my apps can block it when open simultaneously or what the problem is -I haven’t been able to get proper troubleshooting on the matter- but it is horribly annoying and makes it difficult to type when I keep having to switch to different slide-type keyboards. I am totally hooked on the slide/swype/flow features so when it is only sporadically available, Its frustrating.

By: Tommy Peel

Tommy Peel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:30:00 +0000

Great work; fast and smooth on my old Droid X. Long time Swiftkey fan(since Swiftkey X); best one on the market.

By: Tommy Peel

Tommy Peel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:18:00 +0000

+1000(I’ve tried most of them; the Swiftkey X trial got me hooked) I couldn’t stand Swype’s difficulty of “tap typing”; I liked the Swype for texting but found it useless for URLs and such. With the new Flow Beta I get the best of both worlds; Swiftkey’s great “tap typing” and prediction combined with the “flow typing”.

By: Tommy Peel

Tommy Peel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:12:00 +0000

What I’ve done since Swiftkey X is set the long press duration to something like 160ms(much shorter time than the default). Works great for me and is fairly fast for entering phone numbers and such.

By: Marcus Farbiarz

Marcus Farbiarz — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:14:00 +0000

“Slide-left-to-delete a whole word does not work when Flowing is enabled”

That is why I abandoned Swiftkey Flow. This is one of the best feature of Swiftkey and I just hope you guys still keep updating both versions from now on…

By: Tom Hall

Tom Hall — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +0000

The Swiftkey.net/flow link shows as being v4.0.0.76, but when I click, it downloads v4.0.0.75.apk ?
[update] After installing, it does show up as v4.0.0.76

By: AndroidiMac

AndroidiMac — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:04:00 +0000

Agreed. The only reason I came to comment was to make sure that this issue was brought up and apparently it has- ad nauseum. The experience is so jarring that it is actually driving me back to Android ‘s native gesture typing in 4.2.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:12:00 +0000

In Portuguese(pt) is very difficult to write… And if u do it without lifting your fingers is to forget… It just don’t even recognize 2 words… I prefer miles away the SwiftKey 3 normal mode… Is just…. PERFECT!

By: George

George — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:29:00 +0000

Flow the feature not working on play store. Reverts to regular keyboard.

By: Duncan Frazer

Duncan Frazer — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:34:00 +0000

Agreed. SlideIT performs this just fine as does the JB swipe keyboard. I run the JB swipe keyboard as a download on my 4.1 TAB2 10.1 and want to find the same on my Desire HD 2.3.4 phone. I regularly want to swipe in address bars for search in chrome, or ebay’s search. SlideIT on my desire does this fine but doesn’t have a british dictionary. Swiftkey flow looks good but must have this operation to match google’s standard that they’ve set with the 4.2 swipe keyboard. Sorry but now having to check out swype on the strength of your own blog alone