BlackBerry Keyboard for Android
The latest update is still not good enough. The English keyboard is fixed to a certain extent. The cursor is not as visible as the tear drop tends to hide below the newly installed emoji and special character ribbon that comes on top. More importantly, the Arabic Keyboard is still missing the additional special characters for vowels (on the right three dots).
I like this update but when you click on miss typed words "red underlined" covered by the keyboard, still occurring even in the new update. The problem with blackberyy keyboard not tab. BTW productivity already up to date
The new layout of the keyboard is hiding the word suggestion dialogs. Plus it is covering the screen more than before. It would be great if we could get hide option of mic and emoticon bar within the keyboard.
I like the new additions of quick modes but think they could be refined further. Specifically, I would love to see delete back and delete forward on either side of the new left/right cursor arrows. This would be more efficient than adjusting the cursor on one screen and then going back to the keyboard screen to delete the targeted word or letter. Additionally, I still don't understand why the keyboard typing input slows down and lags. This never happened on my Z10 or Z30, but happens frustratingly often on my Priv which forces me to have to wait for the keyboard to catch up. It seems to be particularly pronounced when typing in Google messages. Please address/optimize asap!
Needs better implementation for people who are bilingual. I constantly switch between Spanish and English when I text and it can get frustrating when the phone is auto correcting for Spanish when I am texting in English or vice-versa. I know Google keyboard implemented the dual auto correct where one can write in both languages and it autocorrects no problem. The chrome browser also allows me to do that. And the Skype computer app allows me to do that. edit: yes, I did that on the first day of getting my phone. It does nothing. I just have to keep switching keyboards from Spanish to english and viceversa. It remembers some of the english words that have used when using the Spanish keyboard and viceversa. That's about it.
Best keyboard for Android. Period. However there is a battery drain issue. Yesterday, the keyboard consumed almost 20% of my battery and kept the CPU active for 3 hours. I'm on a BlackBerry KEYone.
Dont know why but since last update , it's draining the battery on my KEYone. It almost uses 18 percent of my day battery. Kindly fix
Security nightmare. Shows passwords on clipboard list. Places wrong words on space key and enters them instead of the space you wanted. Clutters keyboard and makes it confusing and hard to use. One of the worst things Blackberry has done. Productivity killer
The devs truly care about their users. They fixed the issue I reported so quick! I'll always support BlackBerry
Bug: On the KeyONE, gesture swiping in between two words and then typing joins all three words after the second letter is typed. Example ("|" being the nav cursor): One three One |three One tthree Onetwthree Onetwothree
This new clipboard manager feature is very cool. No need for 3rd clipboard apps that do not work
Physical keyboard gestures do not work on my KeyOne. I cannot scroll up/down or left/right or delete words or flick suggestions. I have tried every possible keyboard setting and uninstalled-reinstalled updates. I cannot get to the Type by Swiping page in Settings. I have scoured the Internet for help. KeyOne not nearly as useful without this feature. Help!
The voice to text disengages too fast, and the first word of a sentence on voice to text no longer is capitalized. It used to capitalize it, now it doesn't.
(8-29-17) this is the second update and still have bugs... when using vkb on dtek60 the keyboard is in the way of the auto correct and add word to DICTIONARY.. I can't add words by long pressing the word which is a hassle.
Superb .. I use georgian input also and please maje it better and also give us georgian on bb10 I also use passport
Need some improvements over multilingual feature. Frequently used words of one language should not appear in another input language.
Great Keyboard! Coming from a Z30 this keyboard is most welcome! The additions from the last update just made it perfect!
inputing chinese experience is bad
Hi, Can you please add URDU in input keyboard
Love it and the Dev's really brings out the best in every update! Thanks guys!
Am from Kerala, so I need malayalam language. Kindly do the needful.
کیبورد بلک بریه دیگه
Nice but would love to better prediction and Australian English
Blackberry has the best soft keyboard out there.
Best keyboard app for mobile in the world!
The best keyboard on the market
It is quick in typing
Awesome keyboard
Hi Blackberry, I have both English and Vietnamese as language inputs and it worked just fine before I updated the new Blackberry Keyboard a few days ago. Now after the update, I cannot type in Vietnamese no matter how I've tried to changed the settings! Please advise on what to do or how shoul I roll back to the previous version?
Using it on the hardware keyboard of the Priv it works really well. Especially the ingenious multi-language part, that I have been looking for, for years. The navigation part is though innovative not fully perfected yet, After the 2017-08-25 update I just found out that cursor navigation has become MUCH better, by the swipes, THANKS. I have not used the software keyboard for anything other than minor tests, but it seems versatile too, with optional Swype functionality offered.
After this recent update you now have to use blackberry's voice typing..which is horrible. Before the recent update the blackberry keyboard had the google voice typing feature installed when you clicked on the microphone. Now they have made their own voice typing software and it is the worst I've ever seen. The words are so off and to top things off it doesn't capitalize in the beginning of a sentence and it doesn't give options for correct words. This is the worst update to the keyboard I've seen please fix!
After recent update, can't use physical keyboard without screen keyboard appearing too. Physical=great! English swipe predictions needs serious work. I get the weirdest suggestions fire(for) common words. FOR EXAMPLE: Odd "suggested(intended)" words I get just in this quick rebooted(review). One(Once) sent my wife "doodle worth" indebted(instead) of "didn't work," and sent my sidetracked(sister) "tabellen" making(meaning) "traveling." Obviously their's some inaccuracy in my Tony(going...[typing]) but this is just getting ridiculous! Not masking(making) this up. Inky(Only) too. What gives!?
The best, thanks BlackBerry! It glitches and lags sometimes though, and it happens a lot where I would make a typo and as I'm deleting it, the whole word gets copied and I get slowed down a lot by that. The swipe typing is perfect!
While typing amount during Netbanking transaction, the keyboard on my Keyone is typing unusual amount e.g. instead of typing 393970, it is making it 3,93,93,970 while I press the 0. I can type with voice typing then it is ok, but with physical or onscreen keyboard it is doing the same error. Please provide appropriate solution
Excellent upgrade. Especially the cursor mode. Please please please put back the "swipe down" to switch been symbol pages like we could do on the Passport. It's annoying to have something so smooth like that taken away after you have gotten used to it.
Could easily be 4-5 stars but current version has a bug where when a misspelled word is highlighted and you tap on it, the keyboard now covers the options of what to do with that word. Also had to find out how to disable that top bar, I liked how it worked in previous versions where you could pull the options up if needed but that's more just my personal preference. (Note: By disabling the top bar in the settings means you can't use it at all. I would like to have the options of using that bar just don't want it to constantly be taking up valuable screen space when I'm not using it) (Bug#2: By holding the triple vertical dot button you can temporarily hide the top bar, however it then puts a caps lock on without a visual indication that it's on. Also the bar will appear again once you hit enter / send on what you were typing)
I just bought a new blackberry keyone. I have Vietnamese language inputs and it worked just fine before I updated a new blackberry keyboard. Please fix that problems.
updated review 9.5.17 Blackberry recently addressed my biggest concern with their keyboard by adding fine cursor control among other things. It's 5 stars for this app as this keyboard is now the best on the market! Previous review: This is my main keyboard, however I wish it included a function to allow a user to move the cursor at least from left to right (up & down and left & right would be even better ). Perhaps a long key press on the space bar or some other key can trigger the directional keys that become visible on the Priv when the physical kb is double tapped - this would be extremely helpful. Or, for example, on the Google-Board kb, the swipe function on the space bar to move the cursor left or right is also quite helpful. The BlackBerry kb functionality to move the cursor with a finger on the screen is not enough and does not work easily. It's especially frustrating when I only need to move the cursor one or two spaces, and the cursor is near the edge of the screen, I find it to be difficult and time consuming to try to make it work. On-screen finger control doesn't consistently work and in addition, I have to take my thumbs off the keyboard which slows down typing. Please consider adding a more reliable, effective and efficient cursor control option, thank you!
It's why I bought the phone so I think I'm biased. It works well and is the only one on the market that gives me what I need. Waited years for a phone with this functionality and BlackBerry got it right!
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Hi, the input dictation was made available through the mic present on the keyboard but doesn't work. It's cut by a backslash. The app did not request when update any permissions (like for the mic) but I did manually give permission to the BlackBerry keyboard unde app permissions to mic and storage and still not working. I guess this feature for the keyboard is not working. If someone got this working please let me know