Two major third-party keyboard app makers have introduced the latest versions of their offerings. SwiftKey has finally introduced emoji prediction for iOS devices in its latest update, apart from other features. Now iPad and iPhone s, just like Android s, can simply type phrases to see emoji suggestions and use it while chatting. Swype in the meanwhile updated its app with much needed features for Android s. h2g2l
As a part of the update, SwiftKey for iOS besides bringing emoji prediction, introduces key-click sounds, which s can activate by going in the keyboards settings of the device. for 11 additional languages namely Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hinglish, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Turkish is also included in version 1.2 of the app.
For iPad s, the SwiftKey app's latest update brings the SwiftKey Flow feature, using which s can type words by dragging their fingers on the keyboard.
Android 5.0 Lollipop-based themes (Light, Dark and Bumble Bee), detachable keyboard for Android tablet s, new languages and more. New languages that will now be ed by the updated Swype keyboard are German, Italian, Burmese Zawgyi, Sinhala, and Vietnamese Telex.
The update also includes emoji in eight languages. Some of the other features added are Korean initial consonant, performance improvements related to connected services, and few bug fixes. Swype a couple of months ago got a massive update for iOS devices that included emoji prediction, for 16 new languages, auto-space and sound on key press.