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Foldables and tablets

On wide screens Flikzi splits into two halves, one for each thumb, with the word choices between them. The split keyboard is part of Flikzi Pro (a one-time US$4.99 purchase, free for the first 14 days). Without Pro, a wide screen gets one keyboard in the middle, with keys about as wide as a phone's.

When it splits​

With Split keyboard set to Auto (the default), Flikzi splits whenever the screen is wide enough: the inner screen of a book-style foldable, a tablet, or a phone in landscape. Fold the phone and it becomes one keyboard again.

The split keyboard​

       q w e r t          y u i o p
 ?123  a s d f g   words   h j k l  ☺
        ,  z x c v b       n m  .  ⏎
   [  space bar  ]     [  space bar  ]
  • The keyboard splits down its middle: q to t, a to g and z to b on the left, with ?123 and the comma; y to p, h to l, n and m on the right, with ☺, the full stop and Enter. Each letter is on one half only.
  • The space bar becomes two bars. The left one has the language and hide flicks, the right one the case flicks. Both delete with a swipe, and both move the cursor when held.
  • Each half sits a little in from the edge of the screen, where your thumbs reach.
  • The gap between the halves shows the word choices as hexagons, on the same honeycomb as the keys. There are 6 or 9 of them, as the screen's width allows. The best word is in the middle row, outlined in the accent colour. Empty places are drawn faintly.
  • The words are there from the moment a field opens, with likely first words, so you can pick one without looking up at the strip. The strip above keeps the emoji suggestions, the clipboard button and the mic.
  • Glide typing works on each half, over that half's keys: great on the left, you on the right. A word with letters on both halves is tapped. While you glide, the gap shows the word so far.
  • In Chinese, the gap shows how your pinyin letters are read as syllables, and the characters stay in the strip. Chinese pinyin
  • Russian and Ukrainian split the same way, with six letters of the top row on each half.
  • The keyboard takes at most about a third of the screen's height (a little more on a short screen, such as a phone in landscape) and never switches to full-screen text entry.

Change it​

Open Flikzi. Split keyboard is in the Flikzi Pro box:

  • Auto splits on wide screens only.
  • Always splits even on a narrow screen.
  • Off keeps one keyboard in the middle, even on wide screens.

Key height (under Keyboard) makes the keys shorter or taller.

One-handed mode is for phones held upright. Wide screens ignore it.