While it is fairly trivial to select these from the iOS keyboard, doing so programmatically is a bit trickier.įirstly, each skin tone has its own modifier character. Since iOS 8.3 was released in April 2015, it has been possible to select the skin tone for a number of Emoji characters. SwiftKey is normal (seen right): whatever you typed is center, predictions on either side.Menu Using Emoji Skin-Tone Modifiers in Swift 26 November 2015 on iOS, Swift, Emoji I end up tapping the center prediction even though I did type the word I wanted, then backspacing and typing it again. This means there's no repetition and you see more predictions, but it also means that I have to look down at the keys, then look up at the text, then down at the keys, then up at the text, and that's exhausting. Gboard's predictions are great, especially after years and years of typing on this keyboard, but Gboard shows three alternate suggestions in the prediction bar while the intended word sits in your actual text box or document (seen left). Google's clipboard skills have improved lately, but it's still not quite as good as SwiftKey in my opinion. It's a lifesaver for confirmation codes and live-tweeting with multiple hashtags. Easy access to the clipboard though SwiftKey's feature bar allows me to easily paste multiple items without having to long-press the cursor and find the clipboard option every time. I do an insane amount of copy-pasting, especially when working on themes that have hex color codes copy-pasted multiple places in different orders. The long-press symbols next to keys on the main keyboard are easier for me to read on SwiftKey than on Gboard, which helps for quickly adding brackets or other formatting symbols to my work. I am a very expressive person that is easily excitable and naturally curious, so these symbols are important and I don't want to long-press or switch pages every single time I use them.
You can swipe left and right on the period button to quickly add ! and ? to sentences (and I use it for commas frequently, too), as opposed to having to long-press and drag to get them on Gboard. Word and media prediction on Gboard is slightly faster and better than SwiftKey, due to Google's machine learning leverage to learn your lingo and habits more quickly.Īll that said, my default keyboard is SwiftKey for three reasons, and while they are not deal-breakers for everyone, they were important enough to switch for me: Gboard supports a wider range of languages and dialects/character styles than SwiftKey, and Gboard's also got the upper hand when it comes to sticker pack selection, GIF searching, and in-keyboard web search.
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