{"id":654110,"date":"2013-04-24T07:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=145358"},"modified":"2013-04-24T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:17:28","slug":"popular-keyboard-swype-lands-on-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654110","title":{"rendered":"Popular keyboard Swype lands on Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Swype is one of the most appealing and competent third-party keyboards that you can get on Android today, touting more than 250 million users worldwide. The app practically made swipe input popular, a feature which has since been adopted by SwiftKey and even the green droid itself in the second Jelly Bean iteration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And today, citing user demand, Nuance Communications — the company behind the third-party keyboard — brought Swype to Google Play. The app is available for practically any device running Android 2.2 Froyo and higher and comes in at 15 MB.<\/p>\n

Swipe is available both in free — trial version — as well as paid trim. Users must purchase the app — which runs for $0.99 or the equivalent in other currencies — in order to use Swype after the 30-day trial period runs out. So what do you get?<\/p>\n

Swipe input is just one Swype’s many attractive traits. The third-party keyboard sports “crowd-sources” and delivers updates for the dictionaries containing “the latest trending words”. That should make you a hip fella on social networks. There’s even support for “an additional dialect supplement for your preferred language”.<\/p>\n

Next word predictions shouldn’t really come as a surprise in this day and age. But, based on typing patterns, Swype tries to learn how you write and guess what you might want to type next. The third-party keyboard can “predict words in commonly used long phrases like ‘Best of the Best’, ‘Nail on the head’, ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, and ‘Dancing with the Stars'”.<\/p>\n

\"\"Users can upload their dictionaries onto the cloud in order to take advantage of the accumulated data across all of their devices or simply perform a backup. Swype also comes with a voice-dictation feature and a “smart editor” which “analyzes an entire sentence, flagging potential errors for a quick fix, and includes suggestions for the most likely alternatives”.<\/p>\n

Other features such as themes and support for both tablet and smartphone keyboard formats are also available. At the moment, Swype supports 60 languages and 20 dialects.<\/p>\n

Swype is available to download from Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n