{"id":178,"date":"2011-05-28T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/is-swiftkey-x-beta-the-best-android-keyboard-around-i-think-so\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T08:56:31","slug":"is-swiftkey-x-beta-the-best-android-keyboard-around-i-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/is-swiftkey-x-beta-the-best-android-keyboard-around-i-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Is SwiftKey X Beta the best Android keyboard around .. I think so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I installed the new <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey.phone.trial\">Beta of Switkey keyboard<\/a> on my HTC Desire Android phone and must say I am impressed with it. &nbsp;It is now called Switchkey X (assume the X is for next generation). &nbsp;Here is a screenshot of the keyboard using Tweetdeck (my other favourite Android app).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/swiftkey.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I like about this keyboard is that it looks at your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mariusbock\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mariusb\/\">Twitter<\/a> and gMail and learn your language style. &nbsp;Although I started off with US English, it quickly adapted to my style of language including all the Afrikaans words I am using.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an a<a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2011\/05\/applications\/swiftkey-x-keyboard-wants-to-know-everything-about-you\/\">rticle on Android and Me<\/a> that have a writeup on it. Also this Youtube video gives a very good introduction to it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XUwtYFDdT9c?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The app is currently in beta so it is free in the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/\">Android Market<\/a>. &nbsp;When it moves out of beta and become a paid app then I will definitely buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I installed the new Beta of Switkey keyboard on my HTC Desire Android phone and must say I am impressed with it. &nbsp;It is now called Switchkey X (assume the X is for next generation). &nbsp;Here is a screenshot of the keyboard using Tweetdeck (my other favourite Android app). What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","tag-swiftkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}