SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS 8 Gets New Theme Store and Animated Themes
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Published on 2015-05-20 05:48 PM
SwiftKey announced on Wednesday that a slew of new keyboard themes would be available to purchase from the popular third-party keyboard via a new theme store.
Originally Posted by SwiftKey
New themes have been a top request from our users; as of today, five Nickel themes, six Minimal themes and our very first animated theme, Shooting Stars, are available to choose from in the SwiftKey app. This fresh new lineup of 12 – five of which weren’t in the beta – adds to our existing three free themes for SwiftKey for iPhone: Nickel Light, Nickel Dark and Happy Holidays.
Shooting Stars, which features a beautiful night sky, changes as you move your phone, giving the theme a more realistic and dimensional look and feel by making use of parallax. Parallax is just a fancy word for when an object, or objects, seem to be in different positions depending on where you’re viewing them from.
The themes can then be applied to the keyboard so that you can have a personalized typing experience. There are a total of 12 new themes to choose from, and one of them (called Shooting Stars) is even animated to work with iOS 8's parallax effects, shown below:
The animated Shooting Stars theme goes for $1.99. Some additional themes are shown below.
This is called the Minimal theme set, and the six themes from this set are 99¢ each:
This is called the Nickel theme set, and the five themes from this set are also 99¢ each:
If you're not already using SwiftKey, it's a free download in the iOS App Store at
this link.
Sources: SwiftKey
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