Official Swype for Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” coming later this month

[above picture is just an illustration of Swype running on ICS]

Swype is preparing a beta release of its popular on-screen virtual keyboard to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which will probably be out to the end users having their Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of this month. The words were shouted via the official Twitter account of Swype “Good news! Official ICS support is near.” The Swype representative at their Twitter account added the possible release date of beta version of Swype keyboard “Final tweaks and testing should be done in time for an anticipated end-of-month beta update.”

This popular Swype keyboard specially designed to run on touchscreen devices to allow users to enter words by swiping/sliding a finger or stylus from letter to letter. It’s fully packaged keyboard that handles errors in spelling and fixes them or provides the possible correct words to select from.

The hacked version of Swype has already been there to work on Ice Cream Sandwich. But if you stayed away from it and are waiting for the official release then it’s near within the “days”

[via Swype]

Khurram Ali

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Anonymous says:

January 11, 2012 at 1:38 am

They need to hurry. I'm using SlideIT for right now, but I can't stand how it handles letters like "a" and "i". It also stinks to have to hit a lock tab to keep it on the numbers page without going back and forth to the letters when you type something as simple as 12#45. It goes back to the letters once you tap any other key except a number key. Just extra unnecessary steps.