San Francisco-based software developer Syntellia announced on Thursday that its Fleksy on-screen predictive text input technology is being added to several popular iOS apps, including utilities like Launch Center Pro 2 and text editors like Wordbox.
More than probably any other technology in Apple's mobile operating system, the software keyboard is the one feature that helped Apple redefine the concept of smartphones, freeing handsets from hardware buttons that used to take up half (or more) of a device's real estate.
Still, the default keyboard isn't for everyone, which is why iOS has provided a little-known iOS programming interface that allows developers to create their own input methods—and that's where Fleksy comes in.
Distributed as a special kit that third-party developers can integrate into their own apps, Fleksy replaces the default iOS keyboard with Syntellia's own, which uses a subtly different input method and a unique predictive algorithm that, according to the company, recognizes most words, even if all their letters are typed incorrectly.
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