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one of our favorite third-party Android keyboards are saved a major update today as a public beta I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is a walk through of the layouts for living SwiftKey beta today an update for one of the most popular third-party Android keyboards SwiftKey was released in the form of a public beta dubbed layouts for living the version number is 4.3 and what this beta build brings is quite fantastic useful intriguing and a long list of other positive adjectives at the surface it would seem little has changed it's still the same ol SwiftKey as before even digging through the settings you'll only find features that have been there for several versions now such as flow the gesture style typing capability themes the ability to add a row of very helpful navigation arrows and kind of support the ability to back up your saved words and personalize your experience from various services and social accounts even opening the keyboard from within any text field doesn't immediately show any dead giveaways so what is new about this version of SwiftKey first in response to never-ending requests the developers have consolidated the tablet and smartphone support into a single application certainly a welcome change but that's not the meat of this update long press the numeric key or the Swift key Menu key and will bring up a settings menu which would normally give you a shortcut to Swift key settings voice input support and the ability to share the SwiftKey keyboard to a number of places in this beta long-pressing the symbol key brings up several more options for instance there is now a shortcut to themes from within this popup menu swift is also added to new layout choices a split thumb keyboard and a side mounted compact keyboard not unlike Samsung's one-handed keyboard whether you like the thumb keyboard compact or full size keyboards you now have the ability to resize each of them five different sizes to be exact in the full and thumb keyboards resizing only adjusts the height of the keys and the compact layout however resizing changes both the width and height of the keys and there's one more particularly awesome feature the ability to undock the keyboard regardless of which layout you choose the full keyboard winner undocked can be moved vertically along the display the split layout divides into two separate keyboards which can be moved together or apart and the compact keyboard can be placed virtually anywhere on the display moving in two different dimensions to redock the keyboard simply drag it back down towards the bottom of the display the whole point of this update was to cater to varying sizes of smartphones and tablets who said you have to use a keyboard in a certain way with this layouts of living Veda you can use the keyboard in the way which suits you best for instance a floating keyboard is very helpful on a larger smartphone like the one Max and especially the Galaxy Note 3 with its multi window and pin window features as I noted in my review of the note 3 the floating keyboard is something I've grown quite fond of and used frequently the ability to use that feature in Swift key on any Android device is certainly welcomed though I do wish the keyboard would stay undocked unfortunately it Redux every time the keyboard is minimized you can try the Swift key 4.3 beta yourself today if you'd like simply visit the Swift key blog linked in the description below download the keyboard install it and go through the Swift key setup process as usual that's all we have time for so if you enjoyed the video let us know by clicking the thumbs up button below and subscribe to the channel for more updates and videos like this one be sure to follow us on all the usual places Twitter Google+ and Facebook and pocket now you can find me on twitter at casper tech i'm taylor martin and i will see you next time