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all right folks what's going on this is Clayton over at Android Authority calm today I've got a roundup of a few of the best keyboards available for Android phones and tablets I'm gonna be using my tablet today because more often than not people find difficulty in typing on their screen of their tablet with this dock keyboard so without further ado I want to show a few of the keyboards that we have today we've got our Logitech keyboard our SwiftKey tablet X keyboard our sliding keyboard our thumb keyboard and then we've got an Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard installed now for the sake of typing I'm going to be using the color note application and I'm just gonna show you the keyboards functionalities from here actually keep in mind we're going to want to go to our settings and when we select our settings we're going to want to make sure that we have all of our different input methods configured we'll go to our language and input settings here and we can configure our logic type keyboard here our thumb keyboard swift key tablet X and Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard as well slide it will do that just by pressing the little check bars there and well that'll get us activated anyways going back we'll go to our color note application and you can see here that we have our swift key tablet X keyboard running now this is very cool because for the tablet application it actually allows you to have these smaller keys so we have our thumb typing and when we type something it actually comes up with some predictions so if we wanted to actually type thumbnail instead of thumb we could just set select that and it actually gives us predictions of what it thinks we should type next anyways we have our settings here for the SwiftKey tablet X which I will click here and we have our settings our share voice input support so we'll go to our settings and we have our languages and layouts personalization theme advanced SwiftKey stats quick tip support and about SwiftKey tablet x anyways we have our languages in layouts I downloaded the English pack our personalization is where we can learn from Facebook it'll learn the words that we've typed into Facebook as well as Gmail Twitter or I can do it from our RSS feed we've changed the theme right now my theme is neon but I'm gonna go back to a light theme here for the sake of the video we have our different typing styles we can choose what our typing style is whether it be precise or rapid and that we can choose where our space part does I'm actually gonna choose always insert a space because I don't really like it when it completes the word for me when tapping the spacebar we can choose what our quick peer double tapping the spacebar does and now it's actually gonna answer a period for us now we can choose whether or not we want it to do that so as auto caps and haptic feedback we can have voice recognition key for speaking into our Android device and having it to recognize our voice and type out what we're saying anyways our SwiftKey tablet X stats is it tells us how much of our efficiency has proved improved by using the Swift SwiftKey tablet X keyboard and it has saved 70 keystrokes anyway so I'll go back to the keyboard and now we have our light theme so we can type around on that and when we tap type the number key here is when we get our numbers and we can actually get all of our punctuation here and then here the rest of our symbols with some Smiley's and/or other like math symbols brackets and US and currency symbols there anyways when we press ENTER we can go back to this and we can choose the switch between a regular and split keyboard so here would be our regular keyboard keyboard and with doing that we can just go back and forth between the some keyboard application and the regular keyboard application so anyways what I'm gonna do now is click on the little keyboard icon and choose one of our other keyboards next I'll just choose our slide at keyboard now this is a one that actually is modeled after the swipe styling of typing so what you're gonna do here is just slide it so we can go and we have typed slide now we can choose everything that we want if we if we didn't want slide we can choose the one we did wants so this is how you type on that you just would go from letter to letter in a swiping fashion kind of like the stock swipe application but this has a lot more functionality anyways that we have our voice recognition here we can go to our symbols here and we have four different pages of symbols anyways when we click the slide it we can choose whether or not we just want to type or if we want to actually slide it and this is our different bar here for going down in our suggestions anyways we'll go here and we have our English language selected we can go to our settings as you can see here this basically shows us the language settings and here's all of the available languages there's plenty and we can backup restore or remove our application so if we go into the settings of our slide at keyboard you can see that we have our language and dictionary look and feel preferences we can share and it has our about slider as well as the skins and speech-to-text sort of selector here now if we go to look and feel' we can change the skin of the keyboard which right now we have to slide a 3d but I will choose excuse me I would choose the classic slide it and apply now we can go to landscape in full-screen mode and as well as long press duration and reset visual settings we have our audio feedback and our vibration feedback disabled which I like we can change our language and dictionary now when we go to our preferences we can choose what our auto space does and what our tapping on the space bar does as well as auto caps and special characters and we can finish the next word by sliding as well we can also restore the factory settings to the original keyboard right from here and we can go and choose our speech-to-text as well as it import our contacts for it to know what name we are typing when we're sliding and we'll go to our next input method which is going to be the thumb keyboard for now this is my favorite for as far as thumb typing on the tablet anyways this is our first configuration for the thumb keyboard and this is actually going to allow us to have bigger tiles to type with our thumbs this is in an Ice Cream Sandwich sort of theme and it gives us tips anyways this is our numbers we have two different panels for punctuation in numbers and whatnot we can go back and when we click on this it can give us our voice recognition and it can also give us our settings so here we go when we click and hold we can choose the pin and we can choose the tips bar here and we have our general keyboard settings and our select layout I'm going to go to the Select layout and you can choose whether or not it's a phone split - this works for the phone tablet layout and I'm going to choose the 10 10 - 9 inch tablet layout because this is a 10.1 inch tablet so now this is really functional we have a really cool keyboard and see it gives us all of these different suggestions so I'll choose keyboard and with these you can just choose and you'll get your different punctuation with your numbers here that you can hit with your right thumb and go back and when you're in the thumb keyboard split here you can choose your different layouts and I'm not going to show the message again and so we can choose it to have an entire thumb keyboard here for our right hand we can choose the full layout keyboard and then we can choose our split thumb keyboard so this is a really good keyboard if you want the thumb functionality it's really fast and easy to use and I find myself using it a lot this is the one I return to all the time so we'll go on to our next one now and our next one is going to be the Logitech keyboard now with the rajah type keyboard this keyboards functionality is it actually learns where your hands are typing to give you more of a fluid approach to typing and a more customized approach so anyways we can start typing here's our spacebar we just tap with this and if we go over like this it gives us our arrow keys as well as our page up and page down so this is like sort of an a computer keyboard style approach our numbers are up here and I'll just swipe back to get rid of the numbers this gives us our tab so we can just type away interesting it and I made only one error which is pretty good because this is one of the first times I've used this key and this is really nice for people because it's very economic and you can get at every key you want and this sort of sense you would after learning to type on a computer keyboard anyways we'll go to our next input method which is the Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard and now this is the free version with the donated version you can get all sorts of things such as a themes and is this is just gonna basically give you the theme of the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system this is not a thumb keyboard but then again all these keyboards do work on phones so this would be very functional if you have a gingerbread operating system phone but you wish to get the keyboard of Ice Cream Sandwich so here we have ICS and we can touch it again to save our predictions oh yes and this basically gives us a open up it opens up a menu here and when we're done we have our input there and if we were to turn our tablet on to the other orientation it would just be basically like using a phone with the keyboard in the bottom half now anyways we have our numbers as well as our different punctuation settings here and our symbols and we can go back to the ABC and then we have our voice recognition and when we hold we can get to our settings and here we go to our Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard settings then we can download the donated version change our haptic feedback and our sounds onkeypress as well as our pop-up onkeypress and with the donated version we can get keyboard themes and have a different background image we can change the height and we can also change the user dictionary well anyways guys that was a rundown on the best keyboards for tablets and phones so far if you liked the video keep subscribing to android authority comm