Samsung does offer a lot of customization with their smartphones, but they do not all have built-in settings. Instead, you need to use Good Lock, which offers extensive customization modules. In this article, we will focus on customizing almost every aspect of the Samsung keyboard. It allows you to give a personal touch to your keyboard by customizing the Samsung Keyboard app and improving typing and accuracy.
Many Android users look for third-party apps for things like customizing the keyboard, which requires switching to a different keyboard. Which sometimes have to compromise on features. Samsung’s Keyboard is quite reliable as it offers functionality to sync with Windows Clipboard, Grammarly integration for spelling and grammar checker, GIF, Emoji Kitchen, Buitmoji integration, stickers, and Avatar, but it also has the Galaxy AI for Chat assisting the chat and tone changer.
Samsung Key Cafe
This is a Good Lock module, which helps users customize their keyboard to further enhance the typing experience. You can either select a keyboard theme from the library or customize your keyboard based on your preferences. Option to remap keys or add new keys to the keyboard, but also choose to add key color effects and motion effects, which is a neat addition in terms of customization.
With this, you can add effects to your keyboard background and also to the keys. In addition to this, there are keyboard games that you can try, and you can also tweak things like the size of the keys, your favorite emoticons, and much more. It allows users to customize the keyboard by changing color, adding animation, and creating a custom layout, but it can also create stickers.
Before proceeding, we would like to mention that it only works with the Samsung Keyboard and doesn’t work for others like the Gboard, SwiftKey, Bubble Keyboard, or anything else. If you have Android 13-based One Ui 5.0, then you can have a better and more customized typing experience on your Samsung Galaxy device.
How to download the Good Lock Key Cafe
First things first, you need to download Good Lock from the Galaxy Store.
- Launch the Good Lock.
- In the Make-up section, you will find the Keys Cafe Module to download.
- After it finishes downloading, it will appear as a card on top of the Good Lock.
How to use Keys Cafe
After downloading the Keys Cafe, you can start customizing your keyboard.
- Launch Keys Cafe, and there you have three options to choose from.
- Make your keyboard.
- Style your keyboard.
- Play a keyboard game.
Make your keyboard.
In this section, you can make your preferred keyboard, like if you want to add more rows like a number key, an emoji, and others. In addition to this, you can also change the key functions: width x height, margin, add new keys, delete existing ones, and add new ones.
- You can simply drag and drop the elements from the selection row.
- To adjust the keys, like removing or changing heights and widths, tap on the key, and then it will show the option to adjust the keys.
- To add a row, click on the add row option that appears on the toolbar. There are other tools, like the undo-redo option.
So this is how you can make your custom keyboard; it comes quite handy if you are looking to repeatedly use some keys.
Style your keyboard.
One of my favorite features, which I use very often, is the ability to add effects to my keyboard and also create a visually appealing keyboard.
- You can begin by selecting the keyboard theme, or you can create your own, but for those, you need to install the theme park. From there, you can create your own effects.
- If you don’t want to create a keyboard from scratch but instead want to add effects and sounds to continue with your keyboard.
- In the effects section, there is one keyboard effect and one key effect. Choose the desired effect that you want to apply. You will see the preview on top, and you can try it yourself with the keyboard button that appears in the upper-right corner.
- After that, you can choose the motion effect you want to set for your key, and the preview will be updated as well.
- You can also choose the color of the effect you want by tapping on the color wheel in the upper-right corner next to the preview.
- The next option is sound. Choose the sound you want to use on the keyboard. There are six different sounds to choose from.
So now we have finished customizing the keyboard. In addition to keyboard customization, there are also stickers, keyboard games, and advanced keyboard settings.
Create a sticker.
So you can create and edit stickers on your keyboard. These stickers will be accessible through your Samsung keyboard and can be used anywhere where stickers are supported, like WhatsApp, Messenger, and others.
- Tap on the Plus icon that appears in the bottom-left corner.
- Then, choose the image that you want to use as a sticker.
- Edit the image based on your preferences, and then click Done.
- After that, give them a name and a cover image. And then you can start using it.
Play a keyboard game.
After customizing your keyboard, you can test it by playing the game; this helps you get used to your new keyboard. There will be two games that include sentence practice and word rain. You can also head over to Monkeytype for faster and easier access to the new customized keyboard. The sentence practice game brings up short phrases as fast and accurately as you can, and based on your performance, it gives you an accurate typing speed score.
Advantage Keyboard Settings
This is the last option that allows users to hide. Command a slash on their keyboard for a faster experience. There are toggles to enable or disable, which are quite straightforward. It reduces friction while typing and also has auto-replacement sensitivity for double-tap intervals on 3×4 keyboards.