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Web addresses and email

An address has to be spelled your way, so in web address and email fields Flikzi corrects nothing. The strip above the keys still offers words, and it adds the parts of an address so you don't need to spell them out.

In the address bar​

  • An empty address bar offers https:// and www., along with likely first words for a search.
  • While you type a word, the strip offers endings after its first two words: .com, then your country's own (.sg, .com.sg, .gov.sg and .edu.sg in Singapore), then .org, .net and .io. Tap one: google and .com gives google.com.
  • After a dot, the strip offers the same endings without the dot.
  • A full stop or a slash joins the word without a space.
  • Most of what people type in the address bar is a search, so suggestions and next words work as usual.

In email fields​

  • While you type a name, the strip offers @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @outlook.com and @icloud.com (and @yahoo.com.sg in Singapore). Tap one: john and @gmail.com gives john@gmail.com.
  • Words come out in lower case, and picking a word from the strip adds no space.
  • Flikzi learns whole email addresses here (below), and nothing else you type in email fields.

Your email addresses​

Flikzi remembers each whole email address you type, so the next time you only type its first letters:

  • In an email field, type the first letter or two of an address you have used, such as vi for vincent@flikzi.com, and the whole address appears in the strip. Tap it and it takes the place of the letters you typed.
  • In any other field, such as a message, the address appears after its first three letters, or after the name and @.
  • Up to three addresses show at a time. The ones you use most, and most recently, come first. One you haven't used for a while moves down.
  • Flikzi keeps up to 200 addresses.
  • An address counts once you finish it: with space or enter, by picking it from the strip, or by moving on to the next field.

Addresses are learned in every field except passwords, and not where an app asks keyboards not to learn, such as Chrome's incognito tabs. They stay on your phone, and Typing, Forget learned words clears them with the words Flikzi learned.

Your contacts' addresses​

To have your contacts' email addresses offered too, turn on Typing, Contacts' email addresses in the Flikzi app and allow Flikzi to read your contacts. It is off until you turn it on. In email fields a contact's address also appears when you type the first letters of their name. Flikzi reads your contacts on your phone and never stores or sends them; turn the setting off and it stops reading them.

Anywhere else​

After a name and @ in any field, such as john@ in a message, the strip offers the mail domains. Type a letter and the list narrows to the domains that start with it.

Passwords​

Password fields are typed letter by letter. Suggestions, autocorrect and learning are all off there, and each tap types its letter. Flick a letter up for its capital, and down for its digit or mark.