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by xenomachina 1537 days ago
I still use Swype as well. I'd installed it from the Play store prior to it being discontinued.

It still works fine, but hasn't had any updates in 2 years. I've also noticed that if I open the Play store link (below) in incognito mode, it says "not found", but if I'm logged into my Google account, it brings up the app's info.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuance.swy...

I've tried switching to Gboard a number of times, but its swipe typing is way less accurate. Swype also has a bunch of gestures that are very convenient, like one to toggle the current word between UPPER, lower, and Title case, if you swipe from apostrophe to s, it'll insert "'s", and it's trivially easy to add new words to its dictionary. Overall, I'm not looking forward to when I eventually have to give up using Swype.