SwiftKey 3 Beta, with Smart Space, new UI, themes and more!

free upgrade for existing users or paid?

Some constructive criticism: can we have an option to remove the Swiftkey button at the bottom and reinstate the comma key? Press-and-hold for a comma is a real pain.

I’ve been praising Swiftkey X forever… and telling everyone about it. I can’t believe there’s a new one.

How do I get in on your beta?

I downloaded the beta….it is by far the Laggiest keyboard I have ever used on a phone. it was not made for people that type fast on a virtual keyboard. it takes a good 5-10 seconds to catch up with what i’m saying…and the whole writing a sentaece without spaces thing? ya didn’t worik and all the words in the sentence were spelled correctly. I’m glad its only a beta and I didn’t pay $$ for it. Smark Keyboard Pro was worth every penny i spent on it. Virtually lag free…if it lags its no more than a second. It has calibration so you don’t fat finger keys, and it’s got a dictionary that learns as well as lots of keyboard skins to choose from. it’s just overall better.

Sorry Swiftkey, I don’t like to post bad reviews but this one just doesn’t cut it.

NO, NO, NO, NO!!! I can’t believe it! You removed the comma key!!!! The most key used… Incredible!!!!

After waiting so long for this.. pss

REMOVE the Swiftkey button! Or may be the dot.. NOT COMMA… psss

I have had an android for 15 months now and have tried soooo many keyboards, but the ONLY one I use and really love is Swiftkey!! It really is the best one around and I can type super fas on it! It really is a must have app for any android user!!

Will there be a update or must have to buy a new one??

The dedicated buttons for comma, period and question mark were the main reason I went with SwiftKey. I have no use for a bigger space, nor have I ever had issues with it.
SwiftKey used to be the perfect keyboard for the precise typist. The beta feels like ClumsyKey.

Cool beta but the option to adjust the long press timing is for me the key to fast typing…

The new layouts are awesome and I’m currently using the tablet beta version as I am making this comment. It’s all good plus the auto correct functions became even better, giving phrases as suggestions really saves up time. Also, you could still fix the lag problem. You too can still fix the other languages and add some more so that many more could appreciate your software.

Please, fix the bug that don’t allow to use SwiftKey to edit long text. For example, open a text file of size > 5-10 kB in any editor (Jota etc.) and hide (close) keyboard. It takes 5-10 seconds. [Technical information: extractTextInternal doesn't use ExtractedTextRequest.hintMaxChars or hintMaxLines and that the whole document is returned in each getExtractedText()]

The new cobalt theme looks great! But I’m a little bit sceptical about the moved comma key.

i don’t like this new version. much better with fast access to “, . ! and ?

I really like the space-less writing abilities of this one. Nice work indeed!

What I don’t like, however, is the non-optional (and for me at least, completely useless) ‘Swiftkey’ button in the oh-so-important left corner. Especially now that it’s taken the place of the numpad button that we’ve gotten so used to having there. I’m also with the masses on the comma-button thing. Swiping is cute and all, but not nearly as convenient and precise as a dedicated button.

Also, am I the only one who finds it a little ironic that you’ve put all this great work in decimating the need for the spacebar, while actually making the spacebar bigger?

Please please please please put a period (“.”) symbol in the number-entry keyboard. Please.

Did anyone recognize, that the comma appears if you just swipe over the period button to the left. No need to kept the button pressed.

Still the best keyboard, fast typing and comfortable layout. But I had something to complain for this beta version. 1. So big installed file (>9mb, using tree laguage english, indonesian and hangul) and consume ram way too much for keyboard application (>45 mb) while the default keyboard only use 8 mb ram

IMHO this is the best version of SK for far. I hardly wait for the final product. Will we have to purchase this new version if we already have the paid version of SKX?

Faster than the previous one but I’m missing the comma and question mark button.

Great keyboard. Very good and functional design. For me, personally, it changed the whole concept of writing in Android, for which I thank the developers. In fact, in the beginning I missed the fast access to the comers a little bit but after writing for a couple of hours I liked it ) Unfortunately, the new Smart Space option does not work very well in Bulgarian, I get strange words with no meaning, so I hope you will fix that or at least add an option to switch it off in some languages In terms of speed it works well and I am impressed with the new skins. I am looking forward to the final version (Acer iconia tab A100) )

Loving it so far. One thing I’ve always wanted to see is post word capitalization tweaks. For example, say I accidentally hit the caps and type Word. My only option to change it word is to delete and type again. Wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to tap the word, then tap the caps button to toggle between Word, word, and WORD? This would also help when missing the caps on a proper noun.

I bought swiftkey x very soon and I still think it’s the best keyboard around but I suggest a dedicated coma button would be great and a possibility to write without prediction or not to save every new word automaticaly (a double tap would be great, first to write the new word, second to store it).

Go on the great work on version 3!

The bug I’m experiencing has to do with Widget Locker, my lock screen replacement. When I type from the lock screen, the predictions don’t work. I just get the SwiftKey keyboard without the predictions row. It’s pretty limiting because I frequently respond to text messages directly from the lock screen without unlocking my phone.

I also really miss the adjustments for gestures sensitivity and long-press duration.

If Swiftkey 3 can auto-add spaces the space-bar should not have been made longer. Could always shorten it again and re-add something…I don’t know…maybe the comma key…possibly.

I’d rather have a smaller spacebar and get my comma and period keys back. I only use my right thumb anyway for space, so that spacebar area on the left is never used.

The other problem I have is that the left shift key is hit accidently when I’m trying to hit the A key. I wish the shift zone was smaller to avoid this.

Dedicated comma key is crucial for me, please at least allow a customisation of this!

I smiled at the april fool’s joke. Not smiling now. Please at least make longer spacebar vs comma key an option. Rather remove the (&% swiftkey-button.

Ok, one smile. But I’m serious.

Can the semi-colon have its own dedicated key on one of the three screens? Preferably on the 123 screen.

You should remove the three smiley face options from the {&= screen since long pressing the carriage return, present on every screen, brings up the smiley face screen. Also, I have the arrow keys always present and if you forced the arrow key row to be displayed on that screen, instead of turning it off, you would’ve gained a total of seven more keys that you could utilize for additional characters.

When on an email field and the keyboard is in landscape mode and you long press the @ key, the option for @gmail.com is cut-off/hidden.

So glad the dedicated comma key is back with the latest beta version!

Is it possible that I am confusing the keyboard by typing too rapidly? Sometimes I’ll type out multiple different words and it will make them all the same word…

Selecting a word should select the whole word and not just where you tapped. that way when a correction is entered there wouldn’t be any stray letters.

Why are users who have paid for SwiftkeyX still only allowed a month of beta. The thing I have been waiting for (adjusting time on long press duration) finally hits and my month expired. It tell me to upgrade to the full version but brings me to the market which is still on version 2.2. Overall great keyboard and love the word prediction with not needing to hit spaces! Just looking for SwiftkeyX 3.0 to hit the Play Store!

Question: how do we upgrade to Swiftkey 3? I’ve been using the beta for awhile now and I love it (it’s by far the best keyboard I’ve used). But now the beta has expired and the keyboard has disabled its functionality. I want to buy the keyboard so that I may continue to use it, but I can’t find it anywhere: it’s not on the Android Marketplace and the beta just directs me to Swiftkey X, which I already own and does not have the version 3 look and feel and functionality that I want. How do I upgrade?

Love the improved beta with the comma button!!! Thanks for listening to the feedback!

Kyle, scroll up and you’ll get the link to the updated beta at the bottom of the post!

yesterday, ICS got official released for the galaxy note and since i updated
the keyboard don’t show up on landscape

im using v.3.0.0.190

also swyping left to delete isnt working 100%
could add sywpe right to redo perhaps?? not sure thats a brilliant idea though.

After using the beta for a week I had to go back to Swiftkey X as the beta kept doing incorrect grammer corrections. Things like turning the correctly typed word “the” into “then” or “there” which was completely wrong in the context of the sentence I was typing. Other than that issue though I liked the beta’s ability to detect a missed spacebar hit and the larger spacebar is nice. The loss of a dedicated ? key threw me for a loop a few times but I think I can get used to it’s new location once you’ve ironed out the other bugs.

The new beta doesn’t seem to do contractures very well for me. im becomes image instead of I’m and ill becomes illegal instead of I’ll like before

It would be nice if we could customize the smileys from the settings. Personally I’d rather use instead of because my friends hate the nose (not everyone has smartphones that change emoticons automatically).

And PLEASE remove the SwiftKey key. Everyone uses their own key, but it only takes up space. We never actually use it and that space would be better if it were used for something better, like a comma key.

Thanks!

The space prediction is awesome. Still my primary keyboard. Love having the comma key back. My question/gripe has to do with the new layout of the letters themselves.

Is there any real reason to do away with the staggered diagonal configuration from q to a to z in the qwerty layout? I understand the keys end up being a bit bigger this way, but a lifetime of typing in slanted qaz configurations make me miss the a every time and type an s.

Would it be possible to leave one alternative layout that keeps these the same as 2.xx?

best keyboard but s l o w on xperia x10 mini!!!

This keyboard is amazing. I’m Singaporean and we have our own variant of English called Singlish, which is awesomely complicated and extremely hard to learn (it takes colloqiallisms from English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil) if you don’t live in Singapore itself.

This keyboard really takes the cake because of the personalisation thing. I wish Singlish could be made into an official Swiftkey library, but that’s probably hoping for too much.

Either way, apart from the slight lag which is probably just me picking at nits(Singaporeans are extremely fast texters, we won the inaugural international text-typing competition), it runs pretty smoothly on my Galaxy Nexus.

The biggest complaint I have about this is the available themes. All of them look like they came from the Touchwiz 2.0 or Sense 1.0 era. And since the Autocorrect is so effing efficient(especially with SmartSpace), it makes no sense for the autocorrect bar to be so huge.

I would love to keep the smooth no-frills look of the ICS stock keyboard while retaining the functionality of Swiftkey.

Cheers.

I purchased SwiftKey X after reading reviews stating it was even better than using Swype. I really, really am getting a kick out of it and put my wife through a lot of nonsense SMS messages trying it out.

The best thing about it is, indeed, the word prediction. Its easier to type than with the regular keyboard interface on my Sensation 4G, but I’d get upset rereading what I’d sent sometimes, with SwiftKey X and 3 Beta this happens a lot less and I don’t have to follow up with correction messages to said recipient(s). There’s no Swype-like option from what I see but if the final result is achieved and correct in a smaller time frame then it was worth the investment for me and their End User License Agreement puts me at ease with my purchase… assuming they’re not doing with my info what I wouldn’t really want them to do given the choice.

I’ll take SwiftKey 3 final as a free upgrade or pay in full quite honestly, I like it that much… and I really don’t like to put crap on my phone. This, I find, is utilitarian.

Please, add button for hide keyboard!

swiftkey is by far the best keyboard for android, but would it be possible to have an option to have predictions with all diacritics removed (on a e i o u etc) even though the language is using it?

let me explain a bit better what I mean:

the problem is that if one lives or use swiftkey in certain countries to send text messages to others which use diacritcs (like France, Spain Norway, Sweden etc etc) then the length of your text (i.e number of characters allowed per text message) is greatly reduced. In the end a text of 160/180 characters (i.e using no diacritics) can become as short as 60 or 70 if you use diacritics, and as a consequence you send 2 or 3 texts, when only 1 is needed!

Can the beta learn from the X version or is that all gone?

The beta works well. But I’d like to be able to edit my custom dictionairy list. When you click a wrong word for example, it automatically adds it to you dictionairy. When you dictionairy doesn’t contain a word and the word is at the biginning of a sentence, the word is automatically capitalized. When you add that word to you dictionairy, it only knows the capitalized word. I’d like to be able to edit that costum list.

Anybody?
“Can the beta learn from the X version or is that all gone?”

Loving the bigger space bar. It’s the reason I stopped using SK in the first place, original space bar is too small.

Can you please add option to have the accented symbols turned off on main keyboard? Like the @ # ( ) symbols. I t would be nice to have it show only the accented numbers. Looks cleaner ) please please please!

I like a lot of the changes, but I wish you’d bring back the theme with the green coloration. I went to check out the new themes, and lost it. That’s my only real gripe, though. Cause green is my favorite color.