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Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by backscratches »

Daedren wrote: post #2

I think the key to smartphone keyboards is something like Nintype, two-finger swiping. It's incredibly fast and doesn't require you to learn a completely new keyboard layout to succeed. It's also a lot more comfortable for one-hand typing since you can do multiple swipes per word. Funny that looking at their "number of touches" and "distance covered" checker, I've tried a few words and thinking in my head how it'd be…

Heliboard does two finger swipe! Not as well as nintype but very passable! https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by gmurphy »

We did a lot of experimentation with keyboards in Android - finding better ways to type and click is pure HCI dream work

The key challenge is:

- At first, people don't care about speed - they just want to type well and accurately - for most people, that means standardised layout across all their devices, and they won't consider phones that push them into other models.

- Only after they've mastered that standard layout do they start to care about speed, but by then they've gotten good enough at the basic system that swapping to anything else is too much of a regression

So I really do love the existence of third party keyboards that cater to the set of people that are willing to deal with that setback

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by avidiax »

wbobeirne wrote: post #15
ramon156 wrote: post #8

Percentage bars do not seem to work (FF Mobile), or your conclusion must be that the distance is exactly equal

Same on android chrome, bars are the same height and there're no numbers next to the units.

You need to fill in some example text in the text box above, and it will then compare.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by Karliss »

ramon156 wrote: post #8

Percentage bars do not seem to work (FF Mobile), or your conclusion must be that the distance is exactly equal

Not on a phone right now, but you have to type in sample text above and press check. Bad UI choice of showing bars before text has been entered and separating bars from the input field by additional text.
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