Kinetica
Double tap on shift locks caps at a sentence start too
Backspace can undo the last tap or swipe (off)
Backspace slide: set its distance, stop at punctuation
.com, .net, .org on the period in web and email fields
Clean links: tracking parts out, as a shortcut or on paste
A space inside a trigger is an error, with Remove spaces
Long learned words complete from their first letters
A glide from the digits back onto letters is a word, thanks lurebat
own, at the same time as the other, and the two streams merge into one word.
Typing "something": the left thumb taps S, then E, while the right thumb swipes
O -> M and then T -> H -> I -> N -> G. Kinetica merges them into S + OM + E +
THING.
It is a spiritual successor to the discontinued Nintype, written from scratch on
Android's public IME APIs: not a fork, and no third-party gesture or prediction
library. The dynamic time warping, the trie search and the two-thumb merge are
all in the app.
The app declares no INTERNET permission, so nothing you type can leave the
phone. Decoding, prediction and learning run on the device, and password or
private fields turn off suggestions, trails and learning.
Features
* Two thumbs, each read with its own cursor, so a word can pass between them in
any order; one tap can stand for a double letter
* English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Dutch, German, French and Norwegian,
plus Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Arabic as experimental: 46k to 50k words
per language with real corpus frequencies. Accented words are drawn on their
base keys and restored on commit
* Several languages at once: mix two in the suggestions, or let the keyboard
follow the language you are typing
* Next-word suggestions beside the word's corrections, recent words on the
bar, and a correction strip right after each word
* Tap inside a word you wrote to swap it for another; swipe shift to change
its case
* Tap autocorrect with three levels; backspace right after it undoes it
* Your words rank higher as you use them; slide a suggestion to raise, lower or
block it. Names you write with a capital keep it
* Chords on ?123 or the spacebar, edge swipes on any key, and text expansions:
type text, run an action, or press Ctrl and a key
* Long-press menus as grids, with your own list for every letter
* Keys that fit the field: @ in email fields, / and .com in web addresses,
and an optional number pad for numbers
* Clean links: tracking parameters out of a link, as a shortcut or on paste
* Optional numbers row, a wider middle row, landscape split, one-handed for
either hand, split mode, adjustable height and margins
* Peck-type mode for slang and code: every tap types exactly its letter
* Dark, light, Material You or your own colour
* Backup of every setting, learned word and shortcut in one file
* Settings in English and Italian, with short tips and a two-thumb tutor
Source, build instructions and the full feature list:
https://github.com/EZ-eta/kinetica
If Kinetica is useful to you: https://ko-fi.com/ez_eta
- Author: Elia Zanella
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Versions
Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
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This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.
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It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
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This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
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Expansion triggers can ignore or carry their case
@ and / on the comma in email and web fields
Number pad in number fields, optional
Blocking a word can also delete it
Names you write with a capital keep it
One-handed mode for the left hand
Bigger suggestion text, compact bar, chords on the keys
Hebrew backspace where English has it, thanks lurebat
Autospace delay counted from the lift; crash fixes
Next-word suggestions; optional recent words on the bar
Tap inside a word to swap it for another
Chords on ?123 or the spacebar, on any key; Ctrl + key shortcuts
Optional numbers row and wider middle row
Long-press menus as grids, with your own lists
Backspace right after an autocorrect undoes it
Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic (experimental)
Settings regrouped, in Italian too, with tips