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#171452 18-Apr-2015 20:10

on the play store now

Works oK on my 4.5 screen Phone some issues with capitalisation.

Im hoping it will improve rapidly as the sample goes up in the coming weeks. :

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#1286966 18-Apr-2015 20:18

Here's a link to the Play store.

Will try it out with the Note 3 stylus later.

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#1286967 18-Apr-2015 20:23

there was a scary Warning about credit card numbers may be there is a cache available to input applications? could not make sense of it. anyone clarify?

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#1286968 18-Apr-2015 20:34

gzt: there was a scary Warning about credit card numbers may be there is a cache available to input applications? could not make sense of it. anyone clarify?

Standard warning about any keyboards.

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#1286980 18-Apr-2015 20:56

As above. Any keyboard you activate gives the same warning.

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#1287128 19-Apr-2015 11:45

Goes way better with the cloud button on. Good but overall not impressive yet.

https://support.google.com/faqs/faq/6188721#6190437

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#1287142 19-Apr-2015 12:01

Have to agree. Nothing special so far but will keep working with it for now.

(this post completed with SwiftKey, not with handwriting)

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#1287145 19-Apr-2015 12:08

This post completed with Google Handwriting Input

It's actually rather slow, and I haven't found a way to speed it up.

SwiftKey is quite a bit faster.

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#1287388 19-Apr-2015 19:13

Ditto. Tried, back to SwiftKey. SwiftKey is fast. I just wish it would capitalise i when i write i in the middle of a sentence.

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#1287395 19-Apr-2015 19:34

Next time you type an i, push and hold the lower case i in the prediction bar just above the keyboard. When prompted, hit ok to remove i from predictions.

Managed to get the Google Handwriting a little faster using the Note 3 S pen, but still not fast or accurate enough

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#1287397 19-Apr-2015 19:36

Good luck to it trying to read my scribble.

Whatifthespacekeyhadneverbeeninvented?

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#1287403 19-Apr-2015 19:44

It actually does a pretty good job with my scribble, all things considered.

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#1287577 20-Apr-2015 10:27

got it on my nexus 5.

it's quite amazing how it turns chicken scratchings into text.

put it on a few devices for non-english native language friends and they find it's great.

i like.

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#1287696 20-Apr-2015 13:07

Stu: Next time you type an i, push and hold the lower case i in the prediction bar just above the keyboard. When prompted, hit ok to remove i from predictions.

Managed to get the Google Handwriting a little faster using the Note 3 S pen, but still not fast or accurate enough

Thanks what I really mean i wish it would autocorrect a tapped I rather than me having to tap the suggested corrected i.

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#1287758 20-Apr-2015 14:10

Confusing. So do you want an i or an I?

If you want an I, but autocorrect is not correcting an i to an I, my suggestion above fixes it (been there). Sometimes things end up in the predictions repository when you least expect it.

If you want an i, then I guess autocorrect would need to have I removed from predictions.

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#1288105 20-Apr-2015 21:10

Sorry my bad. What I'm trying to say is there isn't an option for it to auto correct when I'm swyping my input then tap an i. You either have to use the space bar(with that option turned on) or the suggestion at the top. And so as a result i get a lot of small i's. When I really want a capital. Anyway we're way off topic.

On topic, is there a way of switching keyboards quickly? The google writing input keyboard irked me that i couldn't figure how to correct the errors with a real keyboard.

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