It feels uncomfortable to type on the touchscreen device after using the comfy physical keyboard. All Android devices are pre-installed with best typing user interface but here are the five best typing apps which make typing painless on touchscreen devices.

1. Swype

The Swype app is a faster and easier way to input text method for touchscreen Android devices. The app allows users to enter words just by sliding one continuous finger or stylus from letter to letter on the screen keyboard.

The app has an error-correcting algorithm which features to guess the intended word and avoids incorrect letters. It is designed to work across a variety of devices like smartphone, tablets, game consoles and more. It is available for free in the Android market and Swype’s official website.

2. TouchPal

The TouchPal app is similar to Swype app; it brings a whole new input text method experience to an Android devices. You can blindly type on your touchscreen without worrying about mistyped words. This app is an alternative text input method to the traditional physical keyboards as it combines two letters and a symbol on each key and gives a full QWERTY keyboard layout.

The app is designed and developed by CooTek and is available for free on the official website and in the Android market.

3. ICS keyboard

Google has rolled out its new operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with lots of interesting features and one among them is its keyboard layout.

The Android marked had a separate app for non Android 4.0 users who can download ‘ICS keyboard’ and enjoy all the features like multi touch, auto correction, built in dictionary and speech to text. This app is available in multi language for free.

4. SwiftKey X

SwiftKey X app has made typing much easier for fat-finger typists on touchscreen devices like smartphone and tablets. The app gives much more accurate corrections and predicts words than any other keyboard and also supports almost all languages. The app is available for 193.10 in the Android market and is one among the best selling app.

5. Go Keyboard

The Go Keyboard app is one of the most popular free apps in Android market. The app features multi-point touch keyboard, slide input like Swype and TouchPal and auto corrects as you type. The interesting feature in this app is that you can personalize the theme for the keyboard layout. The app also supports multi languages and is available for free in the Android market.