Apple today announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference that will support system wide third-party keyboards. The company showed something that appeared to resemble the popular-gesture based keyboard Swype running on iOS 8, as software chief Craig Federighi noted that keyboards have the most restrictive sandbox to ensure user privacy and safety. To this point, third-party keyboards such as and have launched for iOS, although their integration has been limited to note-taking in a separate app and allowing app developers to incorporate their keyboard, respectively. With this announcement, it is likely that both keyboards will launch for iOS with full integration at some point in the future. Support for third-party keyboards will be included with iOS 8, with the new mobile operating system expected to launch this fall.
