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Exactly! That's the main innovation. What you can build on top (like a text algorithm) is adding speed and efficiency.

Very good point. Steve would be proud of Keybee Keyboard!

Because is a huge effort to make a full swipe algorithm based on a potential custom layout and Keybee keyboard is still a one person project. Marco.

Yeah I mean that makes perfect sense, just means it’s probably not for me. Best of luck to them though

Acceleration is a good metric indeed. And distance was the easiest metric to work on to get some useful data to create the layout. Marco.

Well, to create the layouts I had to consider a lot of combinations. Some are really good like "ing" but they could compromize others. That's why I decided to made it fully customizable for the user. You can change any letters if you want!

That's a mandatory message for any input method. Keybee keyboard is not collecting anything and the code is all available on github.

I dismissed Keybee keyboard because iOs was not friendly to third party keyboards.

Even Swiftkey dropped from iOs. Main reason for me to dismiss Keybee Keyboard from iOs is that for some forms (like password) you are forced to use the apple keyboard. That's a no-go for me.

Typewise came later and their approach is very different than Keybee Keyboard. They only shares the hey keyshape but on a qwerty layout.

I also would like to implement all those texting algorithms but I need the help of the open source community at this moment. Cheers!.

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