We also appreciate Google's smarter
predictive keyboard in Jelly Bean, as well as offline typing capability, enhanced notifications and swiping to delete photos.
Microsoft on Thursday released an update to its SwiftKey
predictive keyboard app for iOS and Android, adding a number of enhancements including the Toolbar, an expandable menu that sits atop the keyboard for easy access to frequently used features.
We did make the new Jelly
Bean predictive keyboard go through the paces, and after comparing it with the one found in Ice Cream Sandwich, we concluded that the difference was negligible at best.
The British apps firm SwiftKey is recognised worldwide for its powered by artificial
intelligence predictive keyboard which is installed on 300m iOS and Android devices across the globe.
However, you will get an option to grant network access, which would be required for most of the third - party keyboards offer QuickType
like predictive keyboard.
This update brings quite a few changes to the OS, including massive performance improvements to boost responsiveness, fluid animations, a
new predictive keyboard, Google Voice Search, enhancements to Google Beam and notifications system.
Everything you can expect from BlackBerry 10 including the Hub, Timeshift camera,
predictive keyboard and browser is all present on the BlackBerry Z3.
Dig into the latest on Project Butter, Offline Voice Typing,
Predictive Keyboard, and more here!
Love
the predictive keyboard!
While SwiftKey is most known for
their predictive keyboard, the acquisition is more of an artificial intelligence play for Microsoft.
The software for
the predictive keyboard also received an upgrade, named QuickType, which will be able to learn the user's language habits to guess what the user is writing.
Since
the predictive keyboard won't be of much use while typing URLs, emails, phone numbers etc, it won't be available everywhere.