Swiftkey’s new Flow beta has been a crowd-favorite since its release. The company behind one of the best Android keyboard replacement apps has pushed a new update that brings a variety of bugfixes—including a bunch of crashes—and improvements such as a nicer-looking installer, a new Turkish layout, and better punctuation prediction for non-English languages.
The beta is currently available for smartphones and tablets.
Changes and Fixes
- Fixed crash on changing keyboards
- Fixed force close on clicking update language
- Fixed other crashes
- Resolved majority of non-English punctuation problems
- New look installer to match SwiftKey Flow colors and include an introduction to SwiftKey Flow
- Added Turkish layout
- Chrome Beta should now behave like Chrome
- Snap and tap (correction of words) now compatible with Vietnamese
- Memory usage of settings app reduced
- Improved handling of non-zero length selection in Chrome and Samsung mail client
- Fixed jumping cursor in ExDialler and Samsung calculator
- Microphone key disabled in fields that don’t support voice input
- Fix for keyboard disappearing when phone build installed on tablet sized device
- Disabled predictions in Kingsoft Office and UC browser to make SK usable in them
- Double space for period turned off by default to prevent accidental period insertion when flowing
- Replaced ‘learnt’ with ‘learned’ in personalization page (US English)
- Turned off slide down from candidate bar to close keyboard when flow is on (to be consistent with the description in the Settings menu)
Known Issues
- Crashes when looking at the heatmap if you visit immediately after using the alternative symbols layout
- Comma key on Arabic keyboard inserts western comma
- Predictions sometimes blank when switching between languages
- Flowing words sometimes results in surprising capitalizations
- No SD card” ribbon looks bad on low end devices
