I recently started using shapewriter on my Nexus one. Not really sure why it gets a bad wrap since after I got used to it, I can type about twice as fast with fewer errors as using a regular soft keyboard or keyboard replacement which was welcome since I lost my HW G1 keyboard switching to Nexus. And hell it's free and legal. But I had a couple of quick questions in case anybody else on here uses it.
1. Sometimes I want to use the regular android keyboard for apps like terminal, is there a menu key to let me switch to the android keyboard. On the regular keyboard it's just hold down 123 button and switch inputs. I can't seem to find an equivalent in shapewriter unless I go back to the android settings page and shutoff shapewriter manually in there.
2. anyway to set a gesture to launch the voice input stuff since there isn't a voice input shortcut on the keyboard.
Thanks!
~Bryan
I'm looking for a keyboard that has the secondary characters over the primary ones as well as the voice input key.
I didn't like shapewriter and better keyboard seems to be missing the voice input keys.
Like the stock keyboard, but hate having to push a seperate key to get numbers and then again for the letters.
To change the keyboard just hold down on the text field until the menu pops up and select input method
kwan said:
To change the keyboard just hold down on the text field until the menu pops up and select input method
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That is a very useful tip and almost exactly what I need. The one app that tip doesn't seem to work for is terminal, which is the app I mainly need to switch back to the stock keyboard as it is the only one supported. or perhaps I should find a better terminal program.
Though its not as good as the HTC IME keyboard with a Voice to Text, a Long press on '.' will bring up a menu to select punctuation. I just found this out yesterday.
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I hate the keyboard on the EVO i am new to the phone and did not know if there was an app or hack that could change the keyboard. my two main problems are i hate having to press the 123 button to get to the numbers and sym. i came from a palm pre and there was a button that just switched to the sym. for you. and when using in landscape mode and typing you have to click the button to close the keyboard to hit the send, search, ect. button clicking the enter button just adds a new line. makes me want to type on the compact keyboard all the time which defeats the purpose of having the landscape keyboard.
Thanks,
JJ
There are lots of different keyboards available in the Market. Look up Smart Keyboard or Better Keyboard for starters.
I would love to get my hands on a good multi touch keyboard WITHOUT the voice key next to the space bar. I always seem to hit it when trying to hit the space bar. I think it should be removed and extend the space bar, or just change it to a comma as that isn't as bad just to back space rather than having to get out of the speech dialog.
I know that the droidx multi tough keyboard port from the nexus one was posted. It is a great keyboard but once again it has the voice key, one thing that is odd is that in the pictures in the n1 MT keyboard post there is no voice key..... just like I like it.
Anyone else with me on rather having it without the voice key?
I use Swype, which doesn't have the voice input key. (I just checked out the Droid X yesterday, which does have the microphone key on their Swype keyboard, sigh...)
Anyway, is there any app or shortcut to activate voice input on any text field WITHOUT long pressing and switching keyboards?
An app that inserts "Speech Input" into any long press menu would be fine, but I'm not sure if that's possible since I believe each app controls their own long presses...? Again, looking for something that doesn't require switching keyboards.
Swype will release a new version with the voice button already announce working on it
Good idea. A 'dictate' long-press option for text boxes.
Shouldn't be much code but figuring out where to add it is the hard part.
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Good idea. A 'dictate' long-press option for text boxes.
Shouldn't be much code but figuring out where to add it is the hard part.
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Is a text field long press individual to each app, or is it system-wide?
Interested in this as well. Its the only reason I haven't completely switched from the HTC IME keyboard
Appears to be system wide
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Appears to be system wide
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Ooh, awesome. Could be a nice addition to CM?
so has anybody else noticed that the word prediction (when having the phone keyboard set to regular touch input and not Swype) doesn't regularly show up when using the hardware keyboard?
I've noticed that, in order to get the word prediction going when using the hardware keyboard, I'll first have to close the keyboard, start typing with the on-screen keyboard to initiate the word prediction, and then open the keyboard and resume typing, at which point the word prediction continues..does anybody else have this issue?
I havent noticed that yet. Although most of the time I enter a program and after I get frustrated trying to type on screen I switch to keyboard.
I remember having a similar issue, although it only seemed to happen to me when entering into the messaging app sometimes. It was a mild annoyance. However, it completely went away when I installed swiftkey X. I highly recommend you get it. Imo more than worth the money. It's the fastest and most accurately predicting keyboard I've tried, particularly with hardware support.
It doesn't seem to be working for me very well, but do make sure you enabled correction by going to:
Settings > Language & Keyboard >Touch Input > Hardware Keyboard Settings > Prediction.
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It doesn't seem to be working for me very well, but do make sure you enabled correction by going to:
Settings > Language & Keyboard >Touch Input > Hardware Keyboard Settings > Prediction.
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Hi Sinfamy, thanks, I did make sure that that setting was enabled. The prediction does show up, but again, only after I've first started typing with the touch keyboard in portrait mode first...if I start off an email or SMS with the hardware keyboard open, the prediction never kicks in.
I'm also gonna give swiftkey x a try and see if that helps.
swiftkey x is working great, and it seems like it'll be really good with its predictions too...thanks for the suggestion!
The best thing about SwiftKey is that it only gets better the more you use it! Keep in mind that although you cannot enter your personal dictionary and edit it like you can with other keyboards, if a prediction you don't like keeps popping up, you can press and hold the prediction to remove it.
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The best thing about SwiftKey is that it only gets better the more you use it! Keep in mind that although you cannot enter your personal dictionary and edit it like you can with other keyboards, if a prediction you don't like keeps popping up, you can press and hold the prediction to remove it.
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nice, thanks for the tip napilopez..
is anybody else using keyboard manager to switch between keyboards for landscape and portrait, and finding predictions not showing up properly?
I'm using the free Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich) from the marketplace. I'm experiencing some problems and wondered if I was alone. Of course I tried to uninstall and re-install the app.
When using the physical keyboard within the Terminal Emulator and I hit the button used for the question mark and forward slash [? /] it will type one of these instead "~". I don't know the technical name for that one; it's the squiggly line next to the 1. I get the squiggly line whether i hit that button normal for a question mark AND when I hit alt to try to type a forward slash.
Ok so the great thing about the MT4GS is that we have more than one keyboard method so when in the terminal emulator I thought I'd be smart and use the soft keyboard insead. While using the soft keyboard I don't have the "squiggly line problem" but whenever I type "if" it will type "If" instead with a capital I. So in order to use Terminal Emulator, I had to switch back and forth between the soft and physical keyboard.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Is there another emulator you are using that you can recommend instead?
Thanks
Yeah I noticed that exact same problem. Frustrating, and I'm sure if you turn off word prediction for the soft keyboard it would probably stop automating the "If," so it's worth a try. But I couldn't get the "/" to work either with the qwerty.
Thanks for checking.
I unchecked word prediction in the phone settings and it didn't help. I Cleared Data for the Teminal Emulator App too. Also unckecked word prediction for Swype even though I wasn't using that. I didn't see an option to turn off word prediction within the app itself though.
Thanks for your your help. Hopefully, an update will be released to help with the physical keyboard in the app.
I'll play around more with settings to see if i can get the soft keyboard work better.
Ok the soft keyboard even capitalizes "I" if it's in the middle of a word.. For example "fIx permIssIons" *shrug* I don't think there is a setting I can change to fix that.
Long press in any text field entry (except Terminal emulator), and select "input method", select "touch input" and use the soft keyboard to enter commands in TE.
For some reason, you can't use any alt functions on the hardware keyboard, so everything has to be typed with either swype (which can get frustrating unless you're a pro), or the stock keyboard. Good luck!
Thanks, that worked!!
Making a local session in ConnectBot (also free, connect as any dummy username @localhost) works better for me than Android Terminal Emulator ever did. It is a little quirky with the MT4GS keyboard (it double maps the bucky keys, so you have to hold shift and alt instead of press-press like everywhere else), and there are a handful of useful symbols I can't figure out how to make ('|', '<' and '>' in particular), but it has been comparatively solid.