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I thought it would be great to for us to share some of our favorite mobile apps. So to start I'll show off the SwiftKey Keyboard, which as I understand is compatible with both Android and iOS just don't hold me to that. This is just going to be a look at the SwiftKey Keyboard. I'm not going to cover every feature, but I will cover the basic functionality and possibly look at the advanced menus later.

Spoiler: "Product Description 

Upgrade your phone’s keyboard to SwiftKey Keyboard for free - and get more done without fussing over typos. Join over 250 million people worldwide who use SwiftKey Keyboard for hassle-free typing.

SwiftKey Keyboard uses Artificial Intelligence to automatically learn your writing style, including the emoji you love to use (if you use emoji), the words that matter to you and how you like to type. That means autocorrect and predictive text that actually works because it adapts to you.

SwiftKey Keyboard caters for all typing tastes - all colors, designs and themes. Support for 100+ languages. Tapping or swipe-to-type. Tons of emoji (smileys, emoticons). No emoji. Or emoji keyboard predictions learned from how you’ve used emoji before.

- Kills your typos
- Type faster with A.I.-powered predictions
- Simply swipe-to-type with SwiftKey Flow
- Autocorrect that actually works
- Always learning your slang, nicknames and phrases
- 80+ colors, designs and themes
- Emoji keyboard - learns and predicts your favorite emoticons
- Bilingual autocorrect across 100+ languages
- Teach the autocorrect your quirks from your online accounts

Find out more about SwiftKey’s key features: https://swiftkey.com/en/keyboard/android/

Supports 100+ languages, including:

English (US, UK, AU, CA)
Spanish (ES, LA, US)
Portuguese (PT, BR)
German
Turkish
French
Arabic
Russian
Italian
Polish

See the full list of languages here: https://swiftkey.com/en/keyboard/and...rted-languages

SwiftKey Keyboard requests access to your SMS messages in order to improve word predictions based on what you've typed before.

Some features are only supported by certain versions of Android. Emoji is supported on Android 4.1 and above. For more information on emoji support and other FAQs, please see https://support.swiftkey.com/.

© Copyright TouchType Ltd 2016

First off I must say the layout configuration options produce a very nice and very functional keyboard. To make any changes you can press the SwiftKey logo between the 123 and emoji buttons and that will bring up the settings and where you can toggle certain features, but if you just want to make a quick change all you have to do is press the three bars on the upper left on the keyboard to reveal a quick menu and for the purposes of this post I'm just going to cover what's in the quick menu and I'm going to use screenshots so it's as self explanatory as possible.

So what were looking at below is the SwiftKey Keyboard while using Google Docs with some random document open and next we'll get into the quick menu.



So here's the quick menu and as you can see you have access to layout, resize, undock, key toggles and more. The key toggles button and the more button along with the SwiftKey logo button I mentioned earlier all essentially take you to the same place, which is kind of redundant so I'm looking for them to make some changes there in the future.



The menu is very simple and straightforward. Here's how you can change the layout.



Heres how you resize the keyboard.



This is what it looks like when you undock and drag the keyboard around.



I'm going to exclude the main menu this time, but I may post them later. Below is a look at the incognito toggle, which is a new feature released this month. It temporarily stops the keyboard from learning new words. There are some ‘colorful’ words you may use during certain searches that you don't want your keyboard to remember.



You can move from the settings to the theme section by selecting the paint brush. From there you can instantly switch between any of your themes or you can download new themes. They have a lot of free themes or you can buy one for $0.99.



Next is the clipboard, which was just released Sunday 11/27. This has got to be my favorite feature. I've been using it to type this post and it makes things so much easier. Essentially anything you don't want to type out you can permanently keep in your clipboard (on file not in memory). The cool part is you can assign a name to it so when you type that name your clipboard item comes up as an option in your suggested words bar. Very useful! In my screenshot as you can see anytime I type the word “color” the color tag with the color I use on ToS will come up on my suggested words bar.



I've used every keyboard available for Android and the SwiftKey Keyboard is above and beyond the rest.

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