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Third party keyboards are still second-class citizens on iOS. They lag on switching, they don't have access to native keyboard settings, they crash debugger, th
by ivm 9y ago
Third party keyboards are still second-class citizens on iOS. They lag on switching, they don't have access to native keyboard settings, they crash debugger, their layers can't be viewed in Xcode, they sometimes break on app update and then users blame developers.
- rexf 9y agoThird party everything seems to be 2nd class citizens on iOS. Apple's apps get special provisioning (not to mention default system app status) that third party apps don't.
- epmaybe 9y agoI don't own an iPhone currently, but I haven't had any problems with Gboard on a number of iPhones that I've used that have it. Is your statement applicable to all third party keyboards, or most of them?
- ivm 9y agohttps://medium.com/@inFullMobile/limitations-of-custom-ios-keyboards-3be88dfb694 https://medium.com/@inFullMobile/limitations-of-custom-ios-k...
- kolinko 9y agoAlso, worth noting, many of them send whatever you type in back to the companies that built them, and they resell the anonymised data. I run an ASO company, and received an offer from one of the keyboard companies for the purchase of the data of what people type into search. Reported them to Apple as a potential security risk. Apple didn't care.