Fleksy + GIF Keyboard 8.5.0

- New emojis! You asked, we brought it for you: an updated emoji collection (Note that emojis might appear different than how they appear in the keyboard once you send them to the app)
- Brand new gifs and stickers
- Now you can purchase your favourite themes and other goodies from within the app. If you'd like to help Fleksy build the best keyboard ever, you can help us by making your keyboard fun with one of our themes!

- Brand new Gifs and Stickers!

FIXED
 More updates to reduce battery drain
 Various crashes

BATTERY
? Reduced battery consumption

We've spent the past month taking the project apart and investigating methods to stress test battery consumption.

Happy to say that with Fleksy 8.0, we are releasing a set of what we believe are very significant fixes and optimizations that should dramatically reduce Fleksy's battery consumption.

Now, in the Android world it is - unfortunately - very hard to simulate a user's daily battery consumption in a lab environment. Meaning, it's hard to know how successful we've been.

That is why we rely on you, our users, to let us know how we are doing.

Since this is an uphill battle that we take with you, we want to be transparent about what we fixed. In detail:

1. We discovered that Mixpanel (our Analytics service) would spin up when in any app that had a textfield, even if the keyboard itself did not ever appear. Keyboard services get a callback when a textfield exists and we had mistakenly Mixpanel code respond to this callback. This is very bad because Mixpanel would in turn spin up the network connection for something completely unnecessary. We no longer do this unnecessary thing and we expect some big gains here.

2. This discovery led us to look into the onStartInput() further and optimize our calls. Things that we would previously call on every tap, like what Action should the Enter key have in this textfield, we now only do once. Comparatively less gains here, but still significant and definitely more correct code.

3. Feedback manager optimizations. This is the set of functions that play back sounds and trigger vibrations on taps. We used to call somewhat expensive functions to perform these operations on every tap. We no longer do that.

Please let us know your experience and if you notice an improvement over previous versions.

NEW UI
? Emoji, GIFs and Stickers are now more fluid as they animate in and out. We also took out those pesky loading spinners - everybody hates a loading spinner ;)
We hope this change will make switching between typing and expressing even more seamless and less distracting.

FIXED
? Various crashes?

FIXED
? Microphone dictation can get disabled for some users
? Slide from 123 for Numbers doesn’t work for some users
? Some emoji in Recents category can be duplicates

FIXED
Stickers would not render on some devices. Please let us know if you are still experiencing this issue.

FIXED
? Some crashes caused by the Theme Builder

FEATURED
? All new Theme Builder! Design your own theme with an image or choose the background color(s) that your heart desires. You can also share them with your friends! Check it out ==> fleksy.com/download/?link=https://goo.gl/wR3qbY

FIXED
? Animation lag on Android M?

Fixed issue where all internet connectivity would fail on Android 6.0 devices. Please let us know if you are still having trouble downloading languages or seeing GIFs & stickers.

UPDATED
- Optimizations for Android M
- No autocorrection after punctuation
FIXED
- Hotkey edits not updating immediately if the keyboard is open
- Color Pops edits don’t update until keyboard is reactivated
- Attempted to fix a crash affecting some users (if you are still experiencing crashes please email support@fleksy.com)
- Various crash fixes