In this article, we will look at the keyboard that can be used on Android TV. The program is called SwiftKey , you can install it from Google Play, we have already told you how you can install programs from Google Play here .

Start settings

You must set up the app before you can use it. Install the keyboard and run. The settings start menu appears. Click " Enable SwiftKey ":

At this point, you need to switch to the keyboard SwiftKey _. Please note that all input data may be collected when using this keyboard. However, they cannot be used against you:

The next item in the application settings is “Choose SwiftKey» :

Choose a layout:

The last item "Complete»:

You can sign in with your Microsoft account or with Google. In the event that you do not want to log in using your account, you can simply click the " Not now»:

After that, a dialog box appears asking you to provide keyboard usage data:

Completing the application installation:

After installation, you also need to make some settings. You can continue to work with your account in order to take full advantage of this application. But we will look at a way to use the keyboard without logging into an account.

Keyboard settings

Let's look at a few settings. The first setting item is " Multilingual ":

A large number of languages ​​are provided here. If we go to this tab, then the languages ​​\u200b\u200bthat are inherent in the country of your residence are displayed first. In order to display world languages, you need to scroll to the end of the list and click on the button " All languages»:

The next item is "Subject". There are many different theme options provided, and you can also create your own theme:

Next comes the "Input”, which you should pay attention to, since here you can enable many useful features for the Android Box. For example, auto-correction, if you spell a word incorrectly, the application will automatically underline it and offer correct input options:

Also, there isGesture input»:

There is an option to clear your smart TV's input data if you need to erase everything you've entered so that the app doesn't remember any of your personal data:

Paragraph "emoji". We recommend enabling smiley prediction» TV box, then when you enter text, the application will automatically evaluate which emotion matches the text:

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After setting up the application, you can move on to using the keyboard. It looks like this when displayed on the device:

Keyboard SwiftKey much more comfortable than the regular android keyboard. Therefore, we recommend this application to be used instead of the standard keyboard.

There is another application for the LeanKey Keyboard, we wrote about it here .

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