The best keyboards for Android

On Android, we currently have nearly three million apps, according to AppBrain. Part of them are keyboard apps, which allow us to enter text in an alternative way to that proposed by the manufacturer of our Android phone.

Therefore, it is necessary to know what they are the best keyboards for Android, since it is necessary to make a preliminary filtering to find a good one, which has both an optimal response time at the time of writing, as well as interesting functions which bring an added value.

Swiftkey

Swifkey is one of the “fathers” of keyboards. It is a keyboard that has greatly improved its interface over the years, and which now adapts perfectly to Google’s Material Design lines.

In addition to having this striking design, customizable with dozens and dozens of themes, its predictive capacity is quite successful, being one of the few keyboards that doesn’t need weeks of learning to know the exact word we want to put.

Finally, note that the application allows us know how many keystrokes it saved us, words predicted, completed, written by gestures and more, so that we can quantify their effectiveness.

Less

This keyboard is based on provide a somewhat different interface from its competitors. With larger and quite customizable keys. This size adjustment is precisely one of its strong points. Likewise, it has gestural writing, themes, and we can even adjust the sound it makes when we write.

It’s a different alternative, for anyone who doesn’t want a conventional keyboard. As a last detail, comment that he has experimental parameters, to further customize it with features such as double-space features, auto-capitalization, word prediction, or keystroke sensitivity

Soft

Flexi es one of the most popular keyboards on Google Play, both for its excellent interface and for its smooth operation. Underline here how its animations are fluid, how its themes are neat and its good predictive capacity.

Likewise, note that this keyboard has some extensions, which allow us to add small modules with various functionalities, like rows of keys, animations, shortcuts to applications and others.

Chroma keyboard

Chrooma Keyboard is a keyboard that has a feature that makes it unique. Its color palette changes depending on the application we are in. In other words, if you open WhatsApp, the keyboard will be green, and if you are using Twitter, it will change to blue tones.

It is a very interesting proposition that adapts to the application used, without giving up good animations, a good prediction system and a hardware interface. Likewise, it does not renounce multilingual support or gestural writing.

Gboard

The Google keyboard, says Gboard, is one of the most used in the world (I admit that it is the one I use on all my mobiles). Its main strengths are minimalism in design and, above all, predictive ability. For better or worse, few companies know us better than Google (if we have provided our data, which means the keyboard knows at all times what we want to type.

Likewise, in terms of customization, Gboard does not limp, allowing choose from more than a wide variety of topics, in addition to being able to choose our own images to create personalized themes.

Ginger

Ginger isn’t such a popular keyboard, but it has some pretty interesting points. In terms of the subject, it is quite comprehensive. In this case, we move away from the flat interface of Google, to resort to a little more flowery themes. Personally, we prefer the flatter themes, but for giving different options, this is not suitable.

Likewise, we can adjust the transparency, color and background of the keys, so that we can end up creating a 100% personalized keyboard for us, saving the name of the theme. The prediction system is more than correct and we have several shortcuts that will make your life easier, like the Google calendar and even some games included in the keyboard (puzzle, snake, etc.)