Android keyboard - Gboard.

[Moab]

This really is just a recommendation/review. I was using Samsungs keyboard. And getting lots of spelling errors and the spell check stopped working this past year or so. I tried two or three of the top keyboards for android. And ended up switching to Gboard.

Its a Google product. And they probably track your bowel movements with it. But they're monitoring our every other vital sign anyway. So why not?

I really like the layout. And the top line suggests correctly spelled words. So after awhile you start abbreviating or just starting to spell a word and it suggests it one line up from where your thumbs are already striking. So its easy to put a longer or harder to spell word in with one thumb tap. Or just a few taps.

My spelling and typing speed have improved dramatically.

Drawbacks:

I still like it better than Samsungs keyboard. I type faster on it with fewer errors. And I can correct words on the fly. Rather than going back through my text replacing underlined words.

But I do have a couple complaints. One is only germaine to Samsung phones with curved glass on the edges. Which I hate. As it always makes you type an O instead of a P on the right side of the keyboard. But with the Samsung keyboard you can move the right side of the keyboard inwards by just a few millimeters. And it solves this problem. Its a very minor tweak to a very minor problem. But annoying none the less.

The only real problem with the Gboard keyboard is its clipboard. It only keeps your last 4 or 5 copies. Unless you pin them to your clipboard. So sometimes when you go back to paste that comment from 6 or more copies ago. Its gone.

Its not that hard to work around but I find it annoying. I do use the pin feature alot though. Its handy to have things, you typically type all the way out, in your clipboard to quickly paste. Like I keep a line of "*****" to quickly paste to break up items in a post or my to do list. As well as typically used longer ohrases or abbreviations. Think "TEOTWAWKI" or "ECWCS".

But even with those minor complaints I still find it much better than the Samsung keyboard or the other ootions on the play store. There really is only one other major competitor. I forget the name. But Gboard is still much better than that one too.

So anyway. If your lamenting the loss of the Samsung keyboards spell check. Check out Gboard. Its improved texting a great deal.

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