Did anyone try Nintype iOS keyboard?

[Belfong]

Downloaded based on your recommendation. Will play with it tomorrow.

heed, any comment - did you like it?

[billnye]

I got it on Christmas day when I was bored sitting at my grandparent's house.

I tried it for about an hour and didn't really like it. Really colorful, and I found the word guessing wasn't very accurate and changed what I wanted to type most of the time.

If I had spent longer working with it, I might have gotten the hang of it, but SwiftKey works just fine for me so I went back to it.

[Snowdog993]

That looks insane!  What happened to the phones with the built-in keyboards?  I "upgraded" my phone and they no longer have tactile keyboard phones anymore.  Now what you do is carry around your new "phablet" and a separate bluetooth keyboard in your back pocket too?

[Belfong]

I got it on Christmas day when I was bored sitting at my grandparent's house.

I tried it for about an hour and didn't really like it. Really colorful, and I found the word guessing wasn't very accurate and changed what I wanted to type most of the time.

If I had spent longer working with it, I might have gotten the hang of it, but SwiftKey works just fine for me so I went back to it.

The default FX is too much for me too and I turned it down a bit. As for the word guessing, it improves over time as it keeps track in its own dictionary. And remember this is just one developer vs SwiftKey so I am easily sway to support him. As long as it is stable and does not crash, I am going to use it.

[YoungMichael88]

Yeah. As a start for theme customizing just focused on Preset, PAL, Preset and Pattern. Then slowly explore the rest.

This is unrelated to the quote but you seem to have a handle on this so ill ask you. I make spelling errors here and there and try to backspace but rather than deleting a character, it changes to another predicted (I'm guessing) word. Any way to turn that off that you know of? I'm going to keep it on as I'm guessing it might come in handy later on once I deal with this learning curve a bit more.

[Snowdog993]

I try and try and try to use "swiftkey" and all those other Android apps that emulate keyboards....  I just get frustrated with it.  This looks pretty insane and I would like to see if I could use that app as well.  I guess it's like the Swiftkey Android app, I don't know.  I am having such a hard time using a "keyboard" app that I'd break down and get a dang keyboard for my phone!
  Dang I miss my Epic 4g!

[YoungMichael88]

I got it on Christmas day when I was bored sitting at my grandparent's house.

I tried it for about an hour and didn't really like it. Really colorful, and I found the word guessing wasn't very accurate and changed what I wanted to type most of the time.

If I had spent longer working with it, I might have gotten the hang of it, but SwiftKey works just fine for me so I went back to it.

The default FX is too much for me too and I turned it down a bit. As for the word guessing, it improves over time as it keeps track in its own dictionary. And remember this is just one developer vs SwiftKey so I am easily sway to support him. As long as it is stable and does not crash, I am going to use it.

I actually came across a little glitch earlier when I tried to quote you on tapatalk. The keyboard never came up at all at first so I got out of the quote and tried again. This time it came up but it wasn't typing anything when I tapped on stuff. I got out again and it has been working fine ever since.

[Belfong]

Hold space bar - option under hold/swipe backspace. There are a few options there.

I turned on Single Character Delete



Edit: if they keyboard didn't come up that means it crashed. It happens once a while.

[YoungMichael88]

Hold space bar - option under hold/swipe backspace. There are a few options there.

I turned on Single Character Delete

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Edit: if they keyboard didn't come up that means it crashed. It happens once a while.

It just crashed again. Also it seems like the red underline for spell check doesn't show up either. This is a major problem as I am a terrible speller to the point that its embarrassing. 

[Belfong]

In iOS Settings, under Keyboard, you can actually arrange which is your first keyboard. I find that putting Nintype as the first, followed by English (which is the default iOS keyboard) and then Emoji somehow made it more stable, not prone to crash. Perhaps the iOS keyboard was trying to content with this. I believe there was a post that iOS 3rd party keyboard implementation is still at infancy.

But red underline spell check, good point. I didn't notice that. Not being a native English speaker, I gotta learn all of my spellings since childhood, so I didn't need to depend on a spell check as much I do need grammar check though, LOL!

[YoungMichael88]

In iOS Settings, under Keyboard, you can actually arrange which is your first keyboard. I find that putting Nintype as the first, followed by English (which is the default iOS keyboard) and then Emoji somehow made it more stable, not prone to crash. Perhaps the iOS keyboard was trying to content with this. I believe there was a post that iOS 3rd party keyboard implementation is still at infancy.

But red underline spell check, good point. I didn't notice that. Not being a native English speaker, I gotta learn all of my spellings since childhood, so I didn't need to depend on a spell check as much I do need grammar check though, LOL!

Well, it was fun while it lasted but with no underlining of incorrect words im forced to return to the stock iOS keyboard. I'm sad. Also,  im on my 4th keyboard crash now as well.

EDIT: make that 5 crashes. RIP Nintype

[Belfong]

Ouch, don't go! Did you turn on too many FXes? I definitely didn't get that many crashes. It's strange. But I do think that not having the red underline for misspelled words could be a no-go. I have tweet to the developer @jormy and asked if if there are any options to turn this on.

[YoungMichael88]

Ouch, don't go! Did you turn on too many FXes? I definitely didn't get that many crashes. It's strange. But I do think that not having the red underline for misspelled words could be a no-go. I have tweet to the developer @jormy and asked if if there are any options to turn this on.

Thanks! I might tweet him also with some of my concerns as well. Also, I will keep up to date on this thread to see how this app is progressing. I really do want to use it. Typing on this regular keyboard feels so boring now even after such short amount of time using Nintype.

[Belfong]

He replied "@jormy: Doesn't look like it's possible with the API atm" - looks like it's SOL at the moment until Apple opened up more.

[YoungMichael88]

He replied "@jormy: Doesn't look like it's possible with the API atm" - looks like it's SOL at the moment until Apple opened up more.

Ugh. Yea that's the answer I got too. He told me to use the topbar to correct mistakes. If I don't know it's incorrect how can I go back and correct it? haha. This is a major bummer. Back to the boring keyboard for me!

[Belfong]

Just a thought, if the word is not in the dictionary, it wouldn't have predicted. You can tell from the way Nintype behave that the spelling is wrong. Wouldn't that work for you? That also mean that you have to turn off auto add to dictionary.

[heedpantsnow]

Downloaded based on your recommendation. Will play with it tomorrow.

heed, any comment - did you like it?

Still playing...had a bunch of busy days since Christmas and I haven't played as much as I wanted. Yet.

[Input Nirvana]

Ok..... I brightened the key caps slightly so I can make them out. I like it very much. Thanks for pushing me to do so. I blame you for my unproductive hours, Input. Not that I have anything to do at work now.

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Damn. I get blamed and I'm not even playing.

Damn.

[Belfong]

Ok..... I brightened the key caps slightly so I can make them out. I like it very much. Thanks for pushing me to do so. I blame you for my unproductive hours, Input. Not that I have anything to do at work now.

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Damn. I get blamed and I'm not even playing.

Damn.

LOL.. you know I am joking! Happy New Year to you. Get the keyboard!

[Input Nirvana]

Happy New Years guys. It's 5 hours from now in California.

I'll have a finger party soon

[Snowdog993]

I ordered one of these instead.
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1283&currentPage=0
Virtual Keyboards!  The way to go!

[Input Nirvana]

I ordered one of these instead.
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1283&currentPage=0
Virtual Keyboards!  The way to go!

That's no fun. It has to look like a raccoon is throwing up on your iPhone keyboard as you type. Crazy colors and lines and this and that.

[Nai_Calus]

It's like the Shine 4 and the Corsair RGBs had a baby with an iPhone.

Looks like it would be fun to play with, but I use an Android phone and I'm a dedicated Swype user who resents those few times I have to peck in a fantasy name/word that isn't in my dictionary yet. Still, if an android version comes out, I'll probably get it anyway, just for fun.

I applaud it for going in that direction though, Swyping on a large screen in landscape mode can get tiring when I've used it on a tablet, I can see a split implementation with combination tap/swiping being probably the most comfortable choice for that. I'm a firm believer in swiping being superior to pecking for mobile input, though, as it solves a lot of the problems of large fingers on a small screen and the lack of feedback. It's always seemed silly to me to try to directly emulate an input method designed for use with a physical medium with tactile feedback on a featureless piece of glass.

[Belfong]

He replied "@jormy: Doesn't look like it's possible with the API atm" - looks like it's SOL at the moment until Apple opened up more.

Ugh. Yea that's the answer I got too. He told me to use the topbar to correct mistakes. If I don't know it's incorrect how can I go back and correct it? haha. This is a major bummer. Back to the boring keyboard for me!

V1.6 was just released in App Store and it vastly improved the keyboard pop up speed. No more 5 sec delay that many may think that the keyboard hang. And lots of performance enhancement and memory allocation to make it better. You should give it another try YM88, but still doesn't solve your twiggy line spelling error.