Bummer that Keymonk didn't make the cut. You guys should give it a spotlight or something. I've started using it after seeing someone nominate it for this and I love it. There's a learning curve but I don't want to go back to normal one-fingered swiping now, so I've abandoned SwiftKey for a bit while I practice. I…

Any tips on how to move quickly here? Mostly I've been getting stuck forgetting that the order you move through the letters matter (Keymonk is not an anagram solver, unfortunately) and at stuff like how it doesn't auto-space and capitalize and such the same way that SwiftKey, for instance, does. Mostly spaces is what…

Yeah I had the same reaction. I feel like I'm relearning to type or something and it's making me have to think about every word in a way I didn't need to before and some words honestly feel like a puzzle to type. I don't know that I'll stick with it if it doesn't start to click in my mind fairly quickly, but it's…

Laying out the keys on a relatively flat line like that sounded and looked like an awesome idea that I was really excited for, and I'm sure with enough practice I'd be able to master it, but it made typing such a chore for the first few days that I just couldn't go back to it. Cool idea, but not for me.

Okay this sounds super interesting. You've convinced me to give it a shot. Thanks for the recommendation! I'd never heard of it before.

A few days ago, I would've agreed with you wholeheartedly, but being back on SwiftKey feels great. Fleksy has excellent gestures that SwiftKey still needs to learn from, but Fleksy's autocorrect just isn't up to par by comparison and lacks any kind of swiping. It's not a dealbreaker but it's nice to be able to lazily…

SwiftKey has had some real advancements recently, not just the themes. The autocorrect is spot-on. I switched to Fleksy for about four months but switching back to SwiftKey just before the big theme overhaul felt like a really good decision. They're not as good as Fleksy with gestures and they could still use some…

Oh, okay, I think I misread the app description. I thought it just pulled up that screen whenever you picked up the phone. Personally, the reason I love Active Display so much is that it shows you what notifications are there and what they are, not just some nonspecific light color or a vibration. Plus, with Active…

What's the advantage here over something like Active Display (or AcDisplay, for that matter)?

Yeah I did that for a while but then I had a lot of accidental activations so I went back to OK Google Now. I would love for them to let us just pick a phrase.

I just wish they'd offer a different phrase. "OK Google" has too many hard syllables that are easy to stumble over, especially if you have to say it multiple times. I was super excited about voice recognition on my Moto X but saying "OK Google Now" three times in a row to register gets tiresome. Good on Apple for…

I can't imagine trying to get away with not washing a shirt after a full day's wear. Like an undershirt I'm wearing to work under dress shirts, sure, I'm not gonna wash any of that every time. That undershirt is going to get gross. That's the point of it. The dress shirt will not be gross as a result and won't need to…

This is wonderful news. I really thought I was stuck using the Motorola Camera forever just out of convenience.

If I could just put in a request to someone more familiar with all this IFTTT stuff than me, can anyone make a recipe to update my phone's background with the day's weather according to drakeweather.com? That would be the best.

"If the company asks for a number on the application, leave it blank."

It'd also be cool to hear from him, on an unrelated note, what the best practices are for pitching stories to a busy guy like him.

That sounds great. Is Xposed for rooted phones only?

Same here. Plus they don't support labels or filters, which is equally crazy. I don't need Gmail to have some prediction system where it learns my preferences because I can just tell it "well this is a bill so label it a bill but skip the inbox."

For some reason, Android's robot lady voice makes every text hilarious. The first text it read for me—I was so excited to see the feature in action and a friend was in the car with me—was, "K." The second time was a friend saying something like, "Sadly, Peter and I will never be together. Our love burns too bright to…

Yeah, I actually wrote little blurbs for "gorgeous" and "sexy" then decided brevity was probably better. I could just keep going, too. It's like they're trying to make sure those words have absolutely zero meaning.