Type Nine looks awesome! I just bought it. I've become increasingly frustrated with the default iPhone keyboard and looking for something more reliable and deterministic.
Your onboarding tutorial was excellent. Much more thorough and polished than I expected. One issue: I advanced through all the tutorial screens until the end of the "manual" tutorial, but it wasn't obvious that was the end because there was no "next tutorial" or "quit tutorial" button after watching the "see how" animation.
Feature request: include emojis in the suggestions like the iOS keyboard does: when you type "heart", it offers a suggestion to replace the word "heart" with the heart emoji.
I see there's a T9 keyboard app (RetroBoard) for the Apple Watch. Have you looked into supporting Type Nine on Apple Watch?
Also, the suggestions seem to be confused by contractions when swiping, defaulting to "didnt" or "doesnt" even when the list of suggestions includes "didn't" or "doesn't".
The lists of suggestions also include a lot of non-English or nonsense words (like “diwn” and “dizoo”), even though I'm using an English dictionary.
The punctuation screen doesn’t include some punctuation available on the Apple keyboard like (parentheses). It would be nice if there was a second screen for less-common punctuation like how the emoji screen works.
Oh - Just checked, you're right these words are reversed in the default dictionary. They'll be right there in front the first time you use them thought, and I'll look into seeing if I can find a good rule for improving the preference by default.
The dictionaries are compiled from large known corpuses, wikipedia and movie subtitles, to ensure most words are available, but it does also mean that some weird words sneak in. That shouldn't matter much since it's very quick to adjust to your usage, and due to the usage sorting the weird words should never come first.
About the punctuation you just need to scroll the symbols window to get to the rest ;)
Thanks a lot! That's some good feedback. (you wrote in the app support chat too right?)
Wrt. Apple Watch, there is unfortunately no support for custom input support, so it has to be a weird hack where you type in one app and copy paste to another or such shenanigans. At least it was the last time I checked.
Your onboarding tutorial was excellent. Much more thorough and polished than I expected. One issue: I advanced through all the tutorial screens until the end of the "manual" tutorial, but it wasn't obvious that was the end because there was no "next tutorial" or "quit tutorial" button after watching the "see how" animation.
Feature request: include emojis in the suggestions like the iOS keyboard does: when you type "heart", it offers a suggestion to replace the word "heart" with the heart emoji.
I see there's a T9 keyboard app (RetroBoard) for the Apple Watch. Have you looked into supporting Type Nine on Apple Watch?