Swype for Android updated with free Material design themes, Emoji support and more


Swype for Android v1.8

Nuance has updated its Swype keyboard for Android to version 1.8 with several new features that includes free Material design themes along with a Bumblebee theme that has high contrast yellow and black colorization, intuitive Emoji support in 8 languages, floating keyboard, better text correction and lots more new features.

Even its competitor SwiftKey got Material Design themes few months back, but those are paid. Check out the complete change log below.

New features in Swype v1.8 for Android

  • Intuitive Emoji support in 8 Languages: English (+UK), FR, IT, DE, ES, KR, CN
  • 3 New FREE Themes: Material light, dark, & high-visibility (Bumblebee)
  • Floating keyboard: Move the keyboard anywhere
  • New languages: Vietnamese Telex, German CH, Italian CH, Burmese Zawgyi, Sinhala
  • Korean Initial Consonant Input added: enable in Settings
  • Added a return key to apps that supply a smiley by default
  • Performance improvements related to connected services
  • Many bug fixes

Download Swype for Android (Free with in-app purchases) – Android


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