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I need weird advice for soft keyboards (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/android

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Hi everyone. I'm close to buying a Unihertz Jelly Star (this nugget here). One of the last things keeping me away from ordering is my concern with typing quality. ("Say what, on a three inch screen??")

Normal qwery-keyboards won't cut it, and thus I'm looking for recommendations on software keyboards for either tiny screens or super fat fingers. As I don't love auto correct, are there any T9-like keyboards for Android (9 keys is quite few, but how about like half of the keys of a full size keyboard)? Also, is there a way to install WearOS (or whatever Google calls it this week) keyboards on a normal Android phone?

If you've got either very fat fingers or a tiny screen, hit me with the keyboard apps you're using. Thanks a lot!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just use swipe typing, but my dad absolutely loves MessagEase, which is basically a 9-key keyboard. The gimmick is that every letter is a gesture; nine letters are just taps, and everything else (including some punctuation) you start on one of those nine keys and swipe in one of eight directions (up, left, upper left, etc.). I think there are a couple of other large keys, like a space bar at the bottom and delete and "switch to numbers and extra punctuation" on the right, but you mainly use the nine for words. It's not terrible, and he's gotten moderately fast at it. Might be worth a look.

Edit: Oh, I've just seen that MessagEase is now unmaintained, and the "thumbkey" mentioned in another comment is basically a replacement. So I guess this is just another recommendation for that keyboard! Oops.