Swype Keyboard Review

Well I am now reviewing the Swype keyboard for Android. My phone, Motorola Photon 4G, already had the Swype keyboard built in. But since the keyboard is now obsolete, I’m thinking about downloading the new Swype.
And here is the review . So far so good I can even dictate the words on the Swype keyboard. Hit or miss attempt admittedly. But still good to have than nothing, right?
So the swipe keyboard has a new lay
out with a different number placement from the built in on my Photon 4G. the numbers now placed on top of the keyboard rather than the feature phone format in my copy of Swype Annoyingly, it still has no support for emoji. I’ll go with Go Keyboard then. The predictive inputs also is a pain in the ass. Heck, it doesn’t even has the word ‘ass’, ‘arse’, and ‘heck’! Too bad for a paid keyboard which claimed it has the most updates for new words. Hey, ‘ass’ has been a valid English word for ages! I won’t buy this stuff.

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[UPDATED #2] Installing Eclipse ADT

Well, since I don’t want to mess with the original post, so here it is : the second update for the said article.

So, I got more errors when tinkering (or should I say playing?) with Help -> Install New Software option in Eclipse Juno which previously returned failed. I tried to install again and get error like “No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,com.android.ide.eclipse.adt,23.0.4.1468518”. And they were many. So I googled and stumbled to this article and do exactly what it says. So, that’s one problem solved.

I’m now waiting for the ADT tools to install the extras requirements. Oh, I forgot to mention that you have to install KVM in order to launch the Android Emulator of ADT. I’ll update as soon as it’s finished. On the spare time, I will do an online course on Java Script by Code Academy.

UPDATE :

So, the installation succeeded. But I decided to ditch the Eclipse ADT while still retain the installation. Why? Because I don’t really like Java and because to code in Eclipse ADT means I have to use Java again. I decided to stick to Python, Ruby on Rails, and Java Script. WHy retain the installation? Well.. because I feel that it would be a waste of my time and my internet quota if I don’t so. Moreover, who knows if in the future I will find my interest in Java.

[UPDATE] Installing Eclipse ADT

Well.. I’m in love with Android since its first public iteration (namely Cupcake). You may not believe in love at first sight, but I surely was falling in love at the first sight with Android. And now, after years of development, I finally tried to make something. Not for public, at least not at the very first time I try to make something. I’ll use it on my virtual Nexus 7 on Geny Motion running KitKat. Why KitKat? because I haven’t got my hands on Lollipop, duh.

The installation file was pretty huge. Nautilus read it as 372.3 MiB zipped. And yet, I still got to update the SDK. What a bandwidth-hungry SDK.. It is still installing as I writing this. I’ll update soon after the installation finished.

 

UPDATE

Well, here’s the update. It turned out that the SDK really ate my storage. I currently only have 200ish MiB from the original 1.6 GiB storage before I install the SDK. And that makes I virtually unable to do anything with the SDK. I still can manipulate the /home storage (which, fortunately, still has 8ish GiB). And I wonder where did the SDK put the downloaded packages before they are installed, I mean, kinda like package manager (would it be APT or Pacman) cache. Too bad. Too bad  indeed.