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i would use the space bar when i need to, please microsoft

When using a punctuation mark such as colon ":" after inserting space after a word, swiftkey automatically remove the space and connects the punctuation mark with the word.

This was not the case in older versions.
How do we get rid of this behavior?

Also, another thing is that, after any punctuation mark, swiftkey automatically inserts a space after it. In older versions it used to happen only for periods "." , commas "," and semicolons ";"

But now it happens for colon ":" as well which I don't want.

Example for both problems:

While Texting: Life is sad :(

Turns to: Life is sad: (

Please help me fix this as well.

Thank you

Add Bitmoji to the SwiftKey keyboard.

Gboard and Samsung keyboard offers it.

We are many users who have asked for it for a long time.

First, I will clarify some things for those who may not know and for those who might assume that I am confusing spell-checker with keyboard input prediction.

Then I will:

Bring back a problem that has been called for attention many times and explain why it happens;

Explain why I think it matters and why previous suggested workarounds are sub-optimal;

Discuss Google’s (Gboard) chosen workaround;

Give my suggestion to fix the problem.

Definitions

Input prediction (IP) (Auto-complete and auto-correction) is a feature whose main purpose in software keyboards is to allow the user to type faster. The keyboard suggests words before you type them entirely and correct words where there are typos. By auto-correcting, the keyboard allows the user to type without painstaking care and precision, which allows for faster typing.

Spell-checking (SC) is (usually) a feature of word processors or system-wide input fields (MS Word, Android, and Google Chrome for desktop, each has its own spell-checker independent from software keyboards or any input method). Its main purpose is to alert and correct the user about the orthography of a given language.

The problem

People who use simultaneous multi-language input prediction – a feature present on SwiftKey (and Gboard also) – start seeing a red underling in all words of one of the languages.

The reason is that, while SwiftKey’s input prediction does have support for multiple languages simultaneously, the android’s system-wide spell-checker active in the user’s phone (usually AOSP’s or Google’s spell-checker) does not have.

Previous suggestions

Here it has been suggested that the user should disable the spell checker:

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002878149-Red-underline-Not-a-SK-problem-

Notably, this is also the approach used by Gboard (more on that latter), but I think this is far from the ideal because it forces the user to resort to input prediction (IP) as a form of spell-checking (SC). This is a problem because, as I said in the beginning, input-prediction is a feature focused on fast typing (as it should be) and not on orthography. To illustrate, imagine how a user uses IP as SC:

The user types the word and hopes that the keyboard will correct it automatically if it’s wrong. Except that, even when typing correctly, sometimes the first prediction (the middle one in SwiftKey) is not the desired one. And other times the prediction dictionary doesn’t have the desired word. For those reasons, the exact typed word is always shown as an option, typos and all (as it should be), and the keyboard memorizes anything the user decides to input (as it should be) either by typing space and accepting the middle prediction, or by selecting the desired word in the list.

The result is that the IP learns a lot of slangs, acronyms and jargon (as is should be), but also learns misspelled words. And the user has no way of knowing if the thing he/her has typed didn’t appear as the first (middle) prediction because it was wrong or because the neural network crystal ball simply got it wrong or because the word doesn’t exist in the IP dictionary. Also, sometimes the misspelling is so different from the intended word that the latter doesn’t appear in the prediction list, and sometimes the misspelling is even presented as the first (middle) prediction.

The clear solution to that in my opinion is to have a separate mechanism for checking orthography, the spell-checker, which has to support simultaneously multi-language input as well (chrome desktop browser has that). This is a second independent layer that runs after input prediction, and is not affected by the IP dictionary. And when the user decides to tap a word and include it in the SC dictionary it is a conscious deliberate decision.

How does Gboard deal with that

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002630445-Changing-the-language-doesn-t-change-the-system-spell-checker

Here it has been said that SwiftKey cannot control the spellchecker, and that Gboard doesn’t break in the same way because it has “advanced system privileges that SwiftKey cannot access”. I’m not an android programmer, but from the tests I have done, it seems to me that Gboard has the exact same level of system access that SwiftKey has with respect to spell-checking:

If my selected system-wide spell-checker is the AOSP one, it behaves in the exact same way with Gboard as it does with SwiftKey. The thing that Gboard does different is that, along with the keyboard, the app installs a spell-checking service as well. I’m using LineageOS, which doesn’t come with Gboard or Google’s spell-checker, only the AOSP ones. And when I install Gboard, Google’s SC appears as an option.

Now, Google’s solution is far from the best in my opinion. For what I tested, the ‘Google spell-checker’ (installed by Gboard) simply disables itself if it detects that Gboard is being used and uses only the system’s language when it detects other 3rd party keyboards (exactly like the AOSP one). And I already explained my problems with both solutions.

My suggestion

Simply put together a simple spell-checker with simultaneous multi-language support and ship it within the SwiftKey app. I think this would be simple to do, just copy the default dictionaries of the SwiftKey IP as a starting point, but it would not have to deal with predictions and other complex features that a software keyboard has to deal with. Again, copy the dictionaries, any word learned by the IP should not be automatically learned by the SC.

The simplest implementation would be to have one hash table for each language. If the user decides to use two languages simultaneously, a new empty language-agnostic hash table is created. That way, when the user includes a new word to de dictionary, it is included in the language-agnostic one to avoid guessing the language of the word. Then, spell-checking a word is simply to query the word on 3 hash tables.

Why am I suggesting this to you?

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360038666231-How-to-Active-Spell-Checker-in-SwiftKey

Here it has been said that SC “was never a feature of SwiftKey itself”, and that it’s an Android problem.

Indeed, if only AOSP’s SC did support multiple languages simultaneously, this problem would be solved. But I use and prefer SwiftKey; AOSP’s keyboard still doesn’t have support for simultaneous multi-language input, suggesting that this support is also not in the horizon for AOSP spell-checker; and it’s more probable that Google’s engineers will fix this only in Google’s SC, in a way that works exclusively with Gboard (as it’s the case with the ‘auto-disable SC’ workaround).

And ultimately this is a problem that (to me at least) seems extremely simple to solve and is hurting your product.

Here are some treads complaining of SC-related problems that, while not necessarily being all related to multi-language support, could benefit from a simple Spell Checker shipped inside the SwiftKey app.

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115002905745-Multilingual-keyboard-underlines-all-English-as-incorrect-Spell-Checker-

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360057381832-Red-underline

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360041911952-Swiftkey-red-underline-is-gone-

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360054924171-Red-line-under-text

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115004508429--Duplicate-Android-Showing-red-underlines-for-all-words-in-second-language

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360071921211-Swiftkey-underline-not-showing

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000617369-Reduced-English-suggestions-for-incorrect-spellings

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043539472-Red-line-under-spelling-errors-with-SwiftKey-

https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000528649-Spell-Check-with-SwiftKey-has-Red-underlined-text

P.S.:

I’m conscious that I might be wrong about a number of things: There could be another workaround that solves the problem in a satisfactory way; There could be a barrier to install system-wide spell-checkers on android; Maybe spell-checking is harder than I think, even without grammar-checking or prediction; etc.

In that case it would be nice if someone could explain the situation in a more in-depth way.

Anything that uses a full-stop is beyond annoying to input. I end up having to un-capitalize and remove spaces.  I can't be the only one. examples:

"e.g." becomes "E. g. "

"www." becomes "Www. "

etc.

Is there some way around this?

I'm running andriod 10 on a Pixel 3 and voice to text has become more and more erratic. It's always had seemingly random capitalization and now, as of the past few days, random punctuation. Getting to the point of being unusable? Anyone experiencing these problems?

Tried using the translator for days now and yet it say something went wrong, restarted my phone many time yet it's not working can you fix this issue please 

Trying to use the translator, I get a message that "Something went wrong. Restart the translator." I have such a problem only with mobile Internet

SOLUTION RESOLVED! SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF MY POST TO GET SOLUTION! 

So I just upgraded form. The Note 9 to the Note 10+ 5G today with T-Mobile and did smart switch and then enabled SwiftKey Keyboard and logged into my account for backup.

Then I noticed this dedicated bar all the way acrossed and below my Keyboard that has a dedicated minimize arrow button pointing down on the left side and a dedicated switching keyboard button on the right.

This was not on my previous phone which was a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 using SwiftKey Keyboard Beta. I don't like this as it is in the way from where I normally press my thumb for the spacebar as I want to press lower down at the bottom of my phones screen and also it makes the keyboard taller and obstructs more of the view on my screen when the keyboard is open. How do I remove this?

I am using Swiftkey Keyboard Beta and have tried looking in the settings and can find anything. Here is a attached picture of what I'm talking about. https://ibb.co/yqCsK1L

SOLUTION UPDATE:

Thanks to

Adem Sofilić

with the solution he posted below. This worked for me on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G device running Android 10!

This issue is not related to SwiftKey Keyboard itself becausett rather a system feature. You beed tongo to your phones settings (Not the SwiftKey Settings.) so Settings> Display> Navigation bar> Toggle the switch to turn off "Show button to hide keyboard." and that removes the bar.

Also with that note SwiftKey SHOULD update their support notes saying that they do not have a dedicated minimize button and say that you can have a dedicated minimize button by doing the following steps to toggle the switch to on. 

Hi swiftKey developers! I am a regular user of your keyboard for Android. I am also an Android developer. In the process of writing one of my language learning application found you have a bug that affects my application. Namely keyboard switching by setImeHintLocales parameter is not supported (more detailed https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView#setImeHintLocales(android.os.LocaleList) ). The native Gboard keyboard supports this. Please make the appropriate changes. https://youtu.be/iR7mRzDq0zU 

Also there is a suggestion to you to make a method. A method that would tell the main application which layout the language has switched to, i.e. throw in the “en " code when the user switches to the English layout. Good luck!

Salve,
vorrei capire come memorizzare termini. In pratica la tastiera swiftkey non memorizza il termine <po'>, che in italiano è il troncamento di poco ed è un termine molto utilizzato. Nella lingua italiana <po> non esiste. Esiste <Po> maiscolo, cioè il fiume Po.
E' un problema che posso risolvere in autonomia?
Grazie

dont you wanna Fix this Shi* ?

sync learning word with google account not working for more than month !! is there any support team behind Swiftkey ( Shi tkey )

Hi, it's been a while since my SwiftKey has stopped predicting the correct form of " un po' " (Italian, it means "a little bit"), it just predicts " un po ". As you can see the apostrophe went missing and it's actually a grammar error in my language, because " po' " is short for "poco" and if you shorten a word the apostrophe is mandatory (also because "Po" is the longest river in Italy but that's another story).

I tried deleting "po" (without the apostrophe) from the prediction bar, deleting and reinstalling the app, I've even tried running it on different devices but the issue seems to be account-wide.

Can anyone help me please? :)