I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.)
Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up.
I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?
I assume some users are using new names on a daily basis. If you run a plumbing business, you may never have texted Abbas before - but if Abbas asks you for a quote, you'll be doing it today. Although I agree that people write 'and' far more often.
I assume they have some sort of special-case inclusion/handling for names in swipe dictionaries - it'd be embarrassing if your swipe keyboard recognised George and Donald as words, but didn't recognise Barrack.
But I'd just punch in the letters individually just as I would for any unusual word. Misinterpreting "and" is like how Swype used to put in "née" for "me". Look, maybe I'm not as precise as I should be, but one is a word that people use a couple of times a year, and the other a couple of times an hour.
And "Barack" isn't the most common spelling. I wouldn't expect it to know "Fillmore" either.
Shouldn't frequency of use matter? Why go to all this effort and not put some kind of weighting on its word choices?
I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.)
Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up.
I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?