9 best Android keyboard apps reviewed and rated

One of Android’s best and most oft-overlooked features is its ability to switch out the default keyboard for an alternative. These come with extra, innovative features and are a vast improvement on the stock keyboards.

There are hundreds on the Play Store, too, and you can change keyboards until you find one you like. With this in mind, we’ve selected nine of the best keyboards available on Android devices.

But before you download them, it’s a good idea to work out what sort of typist you are. Some people love swanky swipe interfaces, whereas others feel more comfortable with more tactile traditional keyboards. On top of those are some really odd keyboards which do something a little different.

Switching between the various keyboards can be a bit of a pain, but if you tap the menu key on your device, choose “Settings” and then go to “Language & keyboard” you’ll be able to choose which ones are active, and which one is currently set as the default.

 

 

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Adding value with tech

What started as a personal aid, has become a business with global presence.

With the growth of the value-added services, many companies have evolved in this ecosystem to enrich user experience for smartphone users, be it typing a text message, writing notes or watching television. KeyPoint Technologies (KPT), founded in 2004, improves text input experience (typing) in smartphones and other devices.

It is rightly said necessity is the mother of invention. When Sanjay Patel’s (founder’s) brother lost his arm, instead of despairing, Patel went about creating a solution to overcome this problem. Little did he know that he would stumble upon “input text solution” and start a company, which today is known as KeyPoint Technologies. The company has grown over time and has international presence and user base. The initiative, launched few years back, today enriches the way users interact with their devices.

“A mobile user today has access to smartphones, tablets and other connected devices with plethora of applications installed. Each application requires an interaction with the user to perform the intended action. We enhance the input experience of users and simplify their interaction with devices and apps,” says Sumit Goswami, CEO.

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TOI about Adaptxt

‘Adaptxt’, the text input application from KeyPoint Technologies, has been shortlisted amongst the Top 25 applications at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, Las Vegas.

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Top 5 keyboard Alternative Apps for Android

Android users have always cherished the openness and customization given to user interface of the operating system with the help of 3rd party apps. While some companies restrict the user interface of their mobile operating system from being tweaked by apps, Google has always made it easily available for the android users.

As a result of open source, the companies add their own custom user interface over the stock android. Let it be the app launcher, widgets, keyboard, apps, etc they look different in different companies smartphones even though they are running the same android Os platform.

When it comes to third party apps you download from the Google play, there are wide variety of apps which can truly give a different feel to your eyes by customizing the user interface of your phone. When we use smartphones, we definitely type using the on screen keyboard and different companies have different user interface for the keyboards. As a matter of fact some of the companies provide keyboards which are difficult to type on, some makes errors, some are not spaced according to your thumbs and many provide features like slide to ease the way you type.

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Adaptxt Keyboard Review – A True Professional Keyboard

Adaptxt is one of the best option for replacement of default android keyboard application and is available for download at Play Store now for download as a free application. This app is developed by Key Point Technologies which is leading input text solution provider and have many leading OEM companies as their clients. But, why we are writing a review of this application, it’s because this is the only application i came across which support many multilingual languages like Hinglish, Banglish, Marathinglish, Odinglish and many more. And the list continues with supporting normal local language as well like English, Hindi, Kannada, Malay, Marathi and many many more. Apart from this, the uniquest thing this app got is providing Industrial SMS dictionaries like Business, Financial, Legal, Medical, Sports and much many more.

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Adaptxt Keyboard Customization Feature

KeyPoint Technologies today introduced new features for its distinctive Adaptxt smart keyboard app that allows Android users – in an industry first – to instantaneously personalize and customize their keyboards. Users can create themes in real-time as per their preference with specific colors for all the keyboard essentials including the Primary character, Secondary character, Background and the key color.

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What We Can Expect From RIM’s New BlackBerry 10 OS, Launching Later Today

We’re mere hours away from the launch of Research in Motion’s BB10 operating system, an OS that has been the subject of many leaks, rumors, highs, and lows since it was first spotted in the pipeline more than a year ago and went through a number of delays. We know a lot of what to expect, so it’s going to be quite interesting to see what the company has managed to keep under wraps and from leaking out to the public view.

We’ve decided to take a look back at some of the things we know about the new OS, and provide links to previous articles and information we’ve obtained regarding BlackBerry 10 and even some of the applications that will be available.

The first BB10 device will be the full-touch BlackBerry Z10, and not a physical keyboard BlackBerry device that most BlackBerry fans are used to. We heard of both devices earlier in 2012 and we were able to be the first publication to confirm one of the first BB10 apps, Truphone’s VoIP App would be available at the BB10 launch. A native Facebook app will also be available at launch.

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Phone, tablet apps that can take your typing blues away

Touchscreens might have become a rage but there is one area where they still are a headache to use — that of typing. No matter how big or wide displays get, users still gnash their teeth when it comes to churning out large portions of text by tapping away on an onscreen keyboard that often offers very little in the way of physical feel, apart from the odd sound or vibration.

Fortunately, as in all things digital, there are apps that allow you to get around this problem — others by a different key arrangement, still others by better predictive text algorithms, and chucking the keyboard out of the window altogether. What’s more, some do so without even charging you a price for making your typing experience simpler. So if you are fed up of typing away on the onscreen keyboard of your touch-driven device, do try out the following:

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Adaptxt as most beautiful keyboard by Bitelia

Hace algunos años, escribir en pantallas táctiles parecía incómodo e inconveniente. Tomó un buen tiempo para que los usuarios lograsen acostumbrarse a la interfaz, y hoy en día es difícil encontrar diseños que no incorporen una pantalla que ocupa prácticamente toda la superficie del dispositivo. Pero, como decimos siempre, no estamos aquí para hablar de harware, sino de software, y lo que haremos hoy es hablar de los mejores teclados para Android.

A diferencia de Apple, que nos brinda una experiencia quizás un poco más unificada –y así también más restrictiva- en iOS, con Android tenemos una infinidad de dispositivos diferentes que corren versiones diferentes del sistema operativo, terminales de baja, media y alta gama para diferentes necesidades. Cada uno de estos dispositivos tiene su propio teclado virtual y táctil. Pero además, tenemos la opción de personalizar nuestra experiencia.

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Clean and Customizable for just 99 cents by Android Central

One of the best features of Android is that different portions of the interface can be changed to the user’s liking, especially the keyboard. Even with drastic improvements in the stock Android keyboard in the last few iterations, one size certainly doesn’t fit all. If you’re considering trying out replacement keyboards on your phone or tablet, Adaptxt Keyboard should be on the list for your consideration.

Read on past the break to learn a little more about Adaptxt Keyboard and how it could be the next keyboard you choose to use.

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