The default keyboard on the Nexus 7 is similar to an early version of Swype, but Swype is still evolving and ahead of the pack. Basically you just drag a trail over the keyboard and Swype will predict the word you want from the context. Is it wrong sometimes? sure. But it is eerily accurate almost all the time.
Other than a full-sized physical keyboard (I'm a touch typist), for me, the only thing faster is speech recognition - oh, and it does that too using Dragon's engine.
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As a registered Swype user, you can now not only get the vanilla Swype on Samsung, but also the latest Swype beta. I never used beta products with Swype being the only exception.
SwiftKey has now also brought out a "continuous" drawing equivalent capture method, but as Jim states, Swype is ahead of the pack, with regards to Swyping using the drawing technique at least.
SwiftKey has the advantage on the dictionary side allowing multiple languages, which is handy for us bilingual folk.
With the world record in speed texting has been held by both Swype and Swiftkey.
My sense is this year Swiftkey's Continuous texting will mature, but until then though both are installed, Swype remains my preferred Android keyboard.
SwiftKey has now also brought out a "continuous" drawing equivalent capture method, but as Jim states, Swype is ahead of the pack, with regards to Swyping using the drawing technique at least.
SwiftKey has the advantage on the dictionary side allowing multiple languages, which is handy for us bilingual folk.
With the world record in speed texting has been held by both Swype and Swiftkey.
My sense is this year Swiftkey's Continuous texting will mature, but until then though both are installed, Swype remains my preferred Android keyboard.
I've been using Swype beta on my Android 2.3 phone for over a year now, don't use anything else. I got a tablet for Christmas, and installed Swype beta on it also. The difference with the tablet version is interesting, you have four modes:
1) regular keyboard - full size that you could two-hand type on. Haven't used it much as you would require a case/stand to properly position the device for "touch" typing. It is also the same keyboard that you would
2) Swype, e.g. drag your finger between letters, which is much more efficient than one-finger poking.
3) Small mode, which is the Swype keyboard miniaturized to about your phone's size so you don't have to cover as much real estate while dragging your finger across the keys, and
4) split mode makes the keyboard smaller, splits it in two and drags it to the edges of the screen so that presumably you could hold the tablet with both hands and thumb type.
As an aside, Skype beta initially refused to download for me, claiming that my tablet wasn't an Android device because of the default browser. Installing Firefox resolved the issue.
1) regular keyboard - full size that you could two-hand type on. Haven't used it much as you would require a case/stand to properly position the device for "touch" typing. It is also the same keyboard that you would
2) Swype, e.g. drag your finger between letters, which is much more efficient than one-finger poking.
3) Small mode, which is the Swype keyboard miniaturized to about your phone's size so you don't have to cover as much real estate while dragging your finger across the keys, and
4) split mode makes the keyboard smaller, splits it in two and drags it to the edges of the screen so that presumably you could hold the tablet with both hands and thumb type.
As an aside, Skype beta initially refused to download for me, claiming that my tablet wasn't an Android device because of the default browser. Installing Firefox resolved the issue.
In my opinion the best on-screen keyboard for Android Tablets is teh Hacker's Keyboard - and it's free!
Lone voice from the Palm Pilot wastelands! Graffiti is still available and runs happily on all Android devices I've owned. It's free, is in the Play Store, runs just like you remember it and very accurate as long as you are. It's 'paid' as well, but the version number of the paid app is suspiciously less than the 'free' and garners more whinges than the 'free', too. Help is always available: it appears whenever your finger leaves the input area.
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