FINALLY! Someone else who is having the same issue I am having with the Samsung Themes custom-to-theme keyboards. Before I got my update last night, I had been noticing with the Themes store, the previews of the keyboards were beginning to change. When a designer updated a theme, a different template was used for the screenshot & the keyboards were only flat colors. There could be various colors, but beyond the "Material" look of the keyboard...nothing. And I absolutely 💯 abhor Material design! Great displays now & the design medium of choice looks like a 1st grader threw together a bunch of construction paper cut-ups & called it Design?!? Give me break...but back to keyboard issues. Before update, the preview may look like *****, but when trying it out, you would get the intended (I think) amazing keyboard designs. Put update...no matter the theme, no matter the designer, no matter if paid or free, no matter if I use One UI or Nova Launcher, no matter uninstall-reinstall, every freaking trick I can think of from previous update glitches I've had from brand spanking new Note 3 on...I get a grand total of 4 equally pathetic keyboard designs. (As you can tell, I'm a bit passionate about this...as with many a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 user, I use my keyboard a LOT! But even as typing this, this keyboard is giving me a headache!) And like so many other Samsung Themes users, the $ invested into themes add up over the years. But especially now, when $ is tight for so many, it adds a bit of insult to injury knowing the cost accrued just to have the themes not work well @ all (there are many issues I'm having with Themes, but this question was about keyboards so I'll keep it on topic. 🙂). And to use a third-party keyboard app is so incredibly risky these days...it always has, but the keystroke theft is mind-blowing now. Plus, I was really comfortable with the way the native keyboard worked. I don't WANT to learn a new kb! Since one of the only remaining portions of a themes not customizable with Samsung themes is the keyboard, I would purchase a theme solely on its keyboard. I've suggested many times to Samsung to add keyboards to the wallpaper & icon customization options, but until recently I was just grateful the store was @ least previewing all the keyboards.
I don't think this would all bother me as much if I hadn't (again, like all the other Note 10 users) paid so much for the phone to begin with then the cost of good themes on top of it all. I kinda get why a Note costs so much, & for so many reasons, am willing to pay that cost to get what I need. But I expect it to WORK! Properly. And I get there's gonna be issues when updates roll out, I truly do. But that is what Beta is for! And this is a pretty glaring glitch. I mean, how much time a day do we type on a phone? I do A TON! I don't own a computer anymore so all my computing is done on this Note 10+. (Besides, on a computer, the kb look isn't important...you're not supposed to look @ it.)
But thank you for raising the issue! 1.)maybe a patch for it or some other fix can happen quicker, & 2.) It's not my imagination or something just I'm doing wrong. I apologize for length. With physical distancing in place, typing is often so integral with communicating...and when the keyboard looks so much of an eyesore, I really don't want to use it...so less communication...& more frustration...so hoping + searching desperately for a remedy soon!
Regards,
Brian
