[Android Apps and Games] goughymachine:
I've been using it for a few days now, and here are some of my experiences. Firstly, I've been a touchpal user for maybe 4 years, from my Omnia days. I felt it the best keyboard for me on winmob. Since coming to Android I have flitted between swype and this, though maybe swype more. In the past I did find swype better for swyping (touchpal better for 'typing') but the latest beta of swype just has not functioned well for me.

I don't find the curving quite as accurate as swype. As an example, when I curve 'the' I almost always end up with 'yes' as the word, and 'the' doesn't appear in the suggestions. This is about the only word I really have an issue with (as in less accurate than swype) but it happens almost every time, even when trying to be very careful. It seems to me that you have to be more direct with your motion from letter to letter with touchpal than I did with swype, but I must say I found that the case with v4 too.

At times the autocorrection/suggestions goes a bit haywire both with curve and not. Mostly happens when in my browser (dolphin) though I have noticed it in other apps. It's like I get no suggestions, and also spaces do not appear between words. Sometimes just a close and open of the keyboard fixes it. This also happens when trying the T+ keyboard.

When in a search box or similar, when I finish typing my search terms etc and I hit the enter key, the enter key then becomes a 'search' or 'go' key and I have to press it again. So two presses of enter to conduct the search. I would think that it should only be necessary to press it once.

If you haven't tried the T+ keyboard, give it a go. It was my keyboard format of choice in winmob and I find it pretty good here. I have certainly gotten used to swyping since android, but for a typing keyboard I find the T+ quite accurate. You can spell specific words out by dragging left or right on the keys to select a specific letter etc, and also not having to hold down to get punctuation or numbers, but just sliding down makes that quite quick, especially when adding phone numbers etc to calendar events etc. The one issue I have with this, is when the prediction is on and I try sliding left and right to type a specific word (not yet in dictionary) it doesn't work properly. But if I turn the prediction off it works fine, then I can add the word and it's fine next time. I'd like to see that kind of function working well with prediction on. If you are sliding to select specific letters then that word should be an option.

I've sent a report of the above to the touchpal guys. I'm hoping a few of the bugs I've mentioned are just that, bugs in a genuine beta version (whereas swype beta always seems to be the 'official' version we get to download, though technically a beta). Don't be put off by my above comments. They may not be a problem for you. And they aren't enough of an issue yet for me to want to change. I'm probably one of the few who just doesn't work well with swiftkey, and the latest swype beta was no more functional for me than this beta is. Certainly on my Tab where the swype beta was not functioning correctly, particularly in the browser.

And don't forget, to delete backwards one word at a time, slide left from the delete key. I didn't notice this at first but quite like it. I'm using it on my S3 and on my original Galaxy Tab running CM10.