Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label swiftkey

Swiftkey update adds Emoji support

For Swiftkey users who love emoji, they can now rejoice.  The popular keyboard app has added native emoji support for android 4.1 and up and it's free while it's in beta. The app can be downloaded directly from Swiftkey here.   Please keep in mind that this is an app from outside the Google play store so make sure to have your "unknown sources" activated to install. Highlights for this update include more than just emoji as you now have the option to have a separate row of number keys on the top row of your keyboard.  In my test, the emoji key does not appear in all apps with instagram being one surprising example.  Those with any android OS prior to 4.4 kit kat will have black and white emoji due to how the OS handles that particular library.  Kit Kat users will continue to see color emoji as they are natively written into the OS. In use the app felt smooth and responsive on my Galaxy Note 2 running android 4.3.  Swiping or typing was responsive a...