TouchPal Demos Gesture Keyboard with Sliding Input for iOS 8One of the major iOS 8 announcements at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference was support for
systemwide third-party keyboards, and a number of prominent keyboard developers have announced their intention to support iOS. Fleksy was the first to
share a photo of its keyboard running on iOS 8, and today
TouchPal has posted a video of its keyboard in action.
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TouchPal's video shows its keyboard supporting gesture/sliding input similar to Swype, as demoed in the stock Messages app on iOS 8. TouchPal also supports autocorrect and predictive word suggestions, although these are not shown in the demo.
While iOS 8's public release is still several months away, it's clear that keyboard developers, many of whom including
Swype,
Adaptxt and
SwiftKey have honed their offerings on Android, are moving quickly to support iOS.
Several major keyboard developers have already been working with iOS, as seen with the
SwiftKey Note app with Evernote integration and Fleksy's
developer tools that allow developers to add support for the firm's predictive keyboard on an app-by-app basis. As a result, we expect quite a few third-party options ready for the iOS 8 launch.
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