How To Create A Simple Color Palette Theme For SwiftKey Keyboard?

Bovas
3 min readJan 27, 2019

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(above image is produced using Screener app)

SwiftKey Keyboard owned by Microsoft is one of the most downloaded keyboard app in Google Playstore. Even though Google’s own G-board is pre installed on every android phone out there many people are switching to SwiftKey because of its accurate Predictions and customization options.

Last year SwiftKey has introduced a custom-theme option in the app. Which was one of the most requested feature on it. By using which We could select any image, adjust it’s background brightness, and enable as our keyboard theme.

How to create a theme based on a color palette using it?

1.Firstly, decide the color which you wanna use on your keyboard for this i am using an app called Material Color

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svdev.tint

2. Secondly, create one or two images using the colorr which you’ve picked to apply on your keyboard using an app called Tint

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svdev.tint

3. Thirdly,

Use any image editing app to arrange those colors to create a background image for your keyboard.

(Here I’m using Picsart)

To avoid confusion on this step take a screenshot of your keyboard and arrange the images you’ve already created using Tint One by one.

After doing this crop the portion you want to use on your keyboard your final image would be like this.

Finally,

Go to your SwiftKey Keyboard settings

Go to “Theme” menu

Select “Start “

Select “Add Image”

Here you can import the image you’ve already created.

Important :

1.Try to position the image according the keyboard rows

2. Adjust Background brightness as per your convenience

3. Disable Keyboarders (enabling Keyboarders would be a mess if the rows are not properly aligned)

4.Symbols are optional

You can mix and match any colours or objects as you like and create a wide range of themes using this method.

Now you can start using your keyboard 😊😊

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