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slig | karma 8530 | avg karma 4.02 · 2018-02-21 11:33:26

Have you ever tried Gboard? It's way better than the first gen of swipe typing.

danjc | karma 850 | avg karma 2.24 · 2018-02-21 18:26:39+00:00

Curious to know whether you've allowed full access to it?

rspeer | karma 5317 | avg karma 3.24 · 2018-02-21 19:59:24+00:00

The only advantage to Gboard I've seen is that it's built in. I used to use SwiftKey but eventually switched to Gboard just so I didn't have to keep SwiftKey set up.

I encounter one frustrating problem with Gboard that I never encountered on other keyboards, and I don't know if it's a bug or if I'm "using it wrong". Sometimes I will swipe-gesture a word and the keyboard simply won't recognize it as a gesture. I could be moving my finger all over the place for 5 seconds and it'll just type the last letter I land on. I backspace and do the same thing again and it works.

Am I accidentally making some sort of "out of bounds" gesture without realizing it? Is my phone too slow to start noticing that I'm swiping? Or is this just a random bug?

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bklaasen | karma 562 | avg karma 2.27 · 2018-02-21 15:39:15

It's a bug. You just see a single straight line from the first letter to wherever your finger is and the keyboard fails to guess the word.

slig | karma 8530 | avg karma 4.02 · 2018-02-21 22:21:58+00:00

Sometimes on my iPhone 6 it was laggy, but most of the time I had no issues. Now on a Z2 Play it's very snappy. So maybe it's your phone.