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Comment by brikym | Hacker News Reader

I've noticed the keyboards on iOS and Android are getting taller and taller with extra buttons for things like password fill with no way to disable these features. I run a word guessing game(Redactle) and there is almost no room left for the actual game which really sucks!

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The default Gboard keyboard has settings for always showing the number row, or only showing it when entering a password. There is also a setting for the "suggestion strip" under "corrections & suggestions". You can also drag to resize the keyboard itself in the Gboard menu, to scale the height.

Now, whether your users will do that to play your game is a different story, but the options exist.

Android allows custom keyboards. I like fleksy a lot but it hasn't been updated in ages with bugs creeping in.

iOS kind of does as well. But it's the bar above the keyboard that grinds my gears. Of course it was added in the sloppy liquid 'ass updates. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256177528?sortBy=rank

Have you tried Futo Keyboard? https://keyboard.futo.org/

No! Trailing it out now...

It's good but unfortunately doesn't support the same swipe features of fleksy. The swipe left to delete, swipe up or down for change or remember words are extremely useful.

Hope FUTO supports it in the future

Can it do swipe typing in multiple languages without having to manually switch? It's something that Google keyboard does really well, i have it set to 3 languages at the same time. Haven't found any other keyboard that can do that.

Check out Klava for iOS – got BlackBerry, Windows Phone-inspired looks and so on https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/klava-keyboard/id6756861211

Plus customisations and BlackBerry 10-like predictive system

If you're using gboard, you can resize the height of the keyboard

O notice the autocephalous is getting worse and worse every days.

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