

Swype is also guilty of this, which is default to inserting. Another annoyance is with long pressing the period (.) key bring up an alternate punctuation mark. I rarely have to do that with other keyboards that support swiping to input English. Often times I'll end up with some totally random word and am forced to explicitly type out the exact word that I want. I find Flow input to be much less good at prediction than either Swype or the stock Android keyboard. Now, if they implement godan, it will be just about perfect.Īctually, most of my gripes are with the English input. Tapping "n" twice still inputs ん, keeping with existing conventions. This means one less tap to enter a word like わかんない. SwiftKey on the other hand never enters a romaji "n" at all ん comes out after one press, and then な after hitting an a.

Google's keyboard won't always offer suggestions after you enter an "n" until you press the key a second time to convert it to ん or hit a vowel convert it to a な etc. There are some things it does much better than Google's Japanese keyboard, such as correction suggestions and prediction for words with "n". However, I am very impressed with SwiftKey so far, and it does a very good job to combine a full-featured English keyboard with a proper Japanese keyboard. Though all in all, I find the stock Android keyboard and the Google Japanese keyboard better.
