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chocolateTHUNDER posted:You can print out a set of 10 randomly generated codes on google's website in case you lose your phone or whatever. Right, but those are safely hidden away at home. I wouldn't have them on me when I'm away. Edit: though I now remember that I set my parents' home phone as a backup device, so I can either use that phone or have them relay the authentication code to me. Uthor fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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So SwiftKey released a new beta today and one of the big new features is the "double word prediction". What's strange is that I've been seeing double word prediction for a couple weeks now, since, at least, the last beta. At first I thought they were saying they'd pushed the feature to the stable build, but that's not the case. Weird. Regardless, the new double predictions are pretty cool. https://blog.swiftkey.com/swiftkey-for-android-new-beta-brings-raft-of-new-features/
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Oct 22, 2015 18:12
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XIII posted:So SwiftKey released a new beta today and one of the big new features is the "double word prediction". What's strange is that I've been seeing double word prediction for a couple weeks now, since, at least, the last beta. At first I thought they were saying they'd pushed the feature to the stable build, but that's not the case. Weird. Regardless, the new double predictions are pretty cool. I wish flow wasn't so god awful compared to swype's because I think they have a much better prediction engine than swype does (for tap typing).
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Oct 22, 2015 18:21
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I've said it repeatedly, but their swipe input is "good enough" for me. I tap 90% of what I write and throw in a few swipes here and there. Like, I mostly swipe quick words like "in" or "only". Things that would normally be typed with one thumb with the occasional longer word (like I just swiped longer for some reason). It's definitely not as good as Swype, but I've gotten so used to blending the two I can't switch. Fleksy is a loving killer tap based keyboard, but I can't use it because I'm too used to swiping every third word.
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Oct 22, 2015 18:40
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XIII posted:So SwiftKey released a new beta today and one of the big new features is the "double word prediction". What's strange is that I've been seeing double word prediction for a couple weeks now, since, at least, the last beta. At first I thought they were saying they'd pushed the feature to the stable build, but that's not the case. Weird. Regardless, the new double predictions are pretty cool. So if I'm on SwiftKey 5.4, do I switch to 6 or to Neural alpha right now?
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Oct 22, 2015 18:49
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f#a# posted:
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Oct 22, 2015 19:26
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XIII posted:I've said it repeatedly, but their swipe input is "good enough" for me. I tap 90% of what I write and throw in a few swipes here and there. Like, I mostly swipe quick words like "in" or "only". Things that would normally be typed with one thumb with the occasional longer word (like I just swiped longer for some reason). It's definitely not as good as Swype, but I've gotten so used to blending the two I can't switch. Fleksy is a loving killer tap based keyboard, but I can't use it because I'm too used to swiping every third word. The problem is that their swipe input doesn't learn. Like it will literally never adjust the outcome of the same curve even if the word is wrong 100% of the time. The other big problem is that there's no mechanism for "drawing" double letters (in swype an extra twirl of any kind on the letter does this), so words like "too" are impossible to swipe consistently. I was really excited when they initially added swipe support because as mentioned, their prediction is way better, but it's just been a big letdown since release. To make it even worse, swype sucks for tap typing. I'm really amazed that that gap hasn't been bridged by one of them (or someone else) in the last ~3 years.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:28
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XIII posted:I've said it repeatedly, but their swipe input is "good enough" for me. I tap 90% of what I write and throw in a few swipes here and there. Like, I mostly swipe quick words like "in" or "only". Things that would normally be typed with one thumb with the occasional longer word (like I just swiped longer for some reason). It's definitely not as good as Swype, but I've gotten so used to blending the two I can't switch. Fleksy is a loving killer tap based keyboard, but I can't use it because I'm too used to swiping every third word. Yea see I'm the opposite. I do 90% of my typing in swipe format.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:34
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I'm looking for a good to do list. If would like one that could have multiple lusts, one for work, one for personal. It would be even cooler if it could use location tracking to automatically change which is default.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:51
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vyst posted:Yea see I'm the opposite. I do 90% of my typing in swipe format. I'll throw another opinion in here. I do an even split of voice, swype, and type, so I end up coming back to the stock Google keyboard. There is always some downside to the others, either difficult to get to voice or emojis. Or terrible at one or the other input styles. Ultimately I just come back to the good-enough Google Keyboard. Also, so many of them require that everything I type be a sentence or paragraph of known words. So, anything technical or a proper noun it just dies on. That one thing will kill the performance for me and make me say "Why don't I just use stock".
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Oct 22, 2015 21:07
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I find SwiftKey figures out new words really quickly. I talking about a new comic ("Karnak") yesterday and it stopped correcting the word after typing it once, started recommending it after three or four uses. But, yeah, it can be tough to get it to get the word right in the first place. It's gotten pretty good where the software will correct a weird word to something it knows, but it offers up my spelling as an autocorrect option if I hit backspace after typing it.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:15
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I've been using SwiftKey for the past few days and the predictions it gives me are still godawful. I pretty much never use them except for very basic words like this, that, a, an, and, or, etc. Does it get better? Is there a way to improve it? I want good word prediction but so far it has never shown itself to be any better than Google Keyboard, HTC Input, or Swype, and it is worse than all three of those in its swiping.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:34
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Have you let them scan your email? I've been using it for 4.5 years, now, so it gets me really well!
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Oct 22, 2015 21:42
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FunOne posted:I'll throw another opinion in here. I do an even split of voice, swype, and type, so I end up coming back to the stock Google keyboard. There is always some downside to the others, either difficult to get to voice or emojis. Or terrible at one or the other input styles. Ultimately I just come back to the good-enough Google Keyboard. Material design Google keyboard doesn't have long-press characters outside of numbers. That's a total deal breaker for me. I've heard other people say it does but I've never found an option to enable it. Just on stock 6.0 on a N5. It was the same with 5 too.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:42
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I like swiftkey enough. I am a mixed swype and tap, usually swyping when I only have 1 hand available. I find the predictions are solid and I rarely have problems. I gave it access to facebook and gmail and all that nonsense so it could snoop my habits, though. I'm interested in this neural version, though.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:59
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Taffer posted:Material design Google keyboard doesn't have long-press characters outside of numbers. That's a total deal breaker for me. Cóūrßé ît døës. Always has too - it's one of the best things about phone keyboards I mean I realise this doesn't help you (maybe clear any app data for it and reinstall, and look around accessibility for anything locking it?) but it absolutely does alternate characters on a long press
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Oct 23, 2015 00:02
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baka kaba posted:Cóūrßé ît døës. Always has too - it's one of the best things about phone keyboards  This is what it looks like for me. No length of long pressing makes any other characters show up. A couple long press options show up under the ?123 menu (I used that to put in the img brackets) but nothing else. If I could get that to work I might switch to Google keyboard.
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Oct 23, 2015 00:40
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Taffer posted:
Yeah yours is definitely broken. When you go to language and input what are your options under current keyboard?
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Oct 23, 2015 01:26
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Taffer posted:
J doesn't have any alternative characters (on the English keyboards anyway). What about the vowels? . should give you some quick punctuation and , should give you a settings cog
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Oct 23, 2015 01:59
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Thanks for this topic, only just discovered that PC layout is available for Google keyboard 
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Oct 23, 2015 03:37
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I do a lot of walking at work, and I'm curious as to just how much I walk, so I was thinking of getting a pedometer app. Is there any one that's head and shoulders above the rest, or should I just use Google Fit? I have no interest in counting calories, or making a map of where I walk.
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Oct 23, 2015 15:30
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Pretty sure all phone pedometers are universally poo poo unfortunately, I don't think the choice of app matters much
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Oct 23, 2015 15:32
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I just use google fit. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness&hl=en It ties into strava and the like if you eventually want to go that route as well.
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Oct 23, 2015 15:48
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Skarsnik posted:Pretty sure all phone pedometers are universally poo poo unfortunately, I don't think the choice of app matters much
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Oct 23, 2015 16:01
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I don't care enough to get a monitor thingy. If phone apps aren't decent enough, I'll just forget about it. Thanks for the info.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:34
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Kheldarn posted:I don't care enough to get a monitor thingy. If phone apps aren't decent enough, I'll just forget about it. Thanks for the info. They're fine as long as all you're after is a rough number that's close enough.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:50
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Syrinxx posted:This. They all suck. Get a wearable ped like a fitbit/jawbone/etc They get the job done. My phone is usually off by 1-300 steps compared to my Fitbit Zip on an 8k step day.
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Oct 23, 2015 17:06
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Maker Of Shoes posted:They get the job done. My phone is usually off by 1-300 steps compared to my Fitbit Zip on an 8k step day. Your phone is low compared to the Fitbit? When I was using a Fitbit I was walking 15-20k/day but Google Fit is telling me 10-15k/day.
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Oct 23, 2015 17:46
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I'm going to guess different phones are bad at it in different ways.
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Oct 23, 2015 17:56
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Skarsnik posted:I'm going to guess different phones are bad at it in different ways. This.
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Oct 23, 2015 20:34
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I'm required to use an IMAP server for my company e-mail and GMail for IMAP is....ok. I've tried using a cloud e-mail provider, like Outlook, to front the mail, but the 15+ minute delay just isn't acceptable. Can anyone recommend a decent IMAP client app for Android. Bonus if you have a decent Windows app suggestion to. Again, Outlook is...meh.
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Oct 23, 2015 20:54
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Is there a good photo gallery app? I really dislike the way Google Photos works.
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Oct 25, 2015 09:34
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QuickPic is pretty universally loved. What do you need your gallery app to do?
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Oct 25, 2015 13:49
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E.T. NO HOMO posted:QuickPic is pretty universally loved. What do you need your gallery app to do? QuickPic got bought out by some company with a really bad scamny history recently.
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Oct 25, 2015 13:53
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I'm trying out Fleksy (again) after it's been talked up in the thread recently. Is there a way to input enter/send if you've hidden the space bar row?
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Oct 25, 2015 13:54
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micropath posted:Is there a good photo gallery app? I really dislike the way Google Photos works.
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Oct 25, 2015 13:57
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hooah posted:I'm trying out Fleksy (again) after it's been talked up in the thread recently. Is there a way to input enter/send if you've hidden the space bar row?
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Oct 25, 2015 15:23
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Zom Aur posted:Piktures seems kinda solid now that quickpic has been bought up. Thanks, Piktures looks great.
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Oct 25, 2015 15:26
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I switched to Focus after the Quickpic-buyout.
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Is there an alternative for Agenda Widget that works on Android 5? Most other calendar widgets I've seen either don't integrate tasks/contact birthdays or are not as configurable as AW.
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