Reynolds was convinced he can solve the problem of shrinking typewriters. He paired with Dr. Ben Medlock, who had a doctorate in language-based artificial intelligence. Reynolds and Medlock developed a prototype of a very intelligent touchscreen keyboard. Later, this keyboard became SwiftKey’s alpha version.
This was the beginning of the rapid growth of SwiftKey. The company created one of the most popular apps that run on Android. SwiftKey has also team upped with healthcare organization, manufacturers and other important enterprises.
SwiftKey used the Prediction Engines to learn and improve predictions. Combined with the learning from SMS, RSS feed, Gmail, Twitter and Facebook, SwiftKey this tool to improve along with usage. At present, SwiftKey is supported by 55 different languages.
SwiftKey had its first beta release on Android on July 14, 2010. It was supported by seven languages. It featured settings that allow adjusting audio feedback volume and the length of haptic feedback vibration. Swiftkey had tutorial videos available on YouTube.
In July 2011, SwiftKey released the SwiftKey X as an upgrade to SwiftKey. It featured updates, which included phrase prediction through a new artificial intelligence engine; a personalization services that analyzes the user’s style in typing in to Twitter, Facebook and Gmail; a new technology that allows continuous monitoring of the user’s precision in typing and how he adapts to the touch-sensitive parts of the keyboard; and, simultaneous use of different languages. SwiftKey X also launched the SwiftKey Tablet X, its app dedicated to tablets.
From its humble beginnings, today SwiftKey is known in the apps circles. 2013 is an important year for SwiftKey because of back-to-back awards that the company received. The company was awarded the Best Consumer App Award and the Appsters Champion 2013. These awards are given annually to the most enterprising and innovative apps in the industry.