There have been lots of posts by people looking to properly disable XT9 that is integrated in the HTC soft keypad and keyboard to make the "regular" word completion work when using the hardware keyboard.
For quick SMS messages, I still prefer a phonepad with XT9. I like the large layout of the HTC keypad, but XT9 drives me nuts. After trying about every SIP I could find, I think the smootest for T9 phonepad input is the HTC Phone Pad (also called Intellipad) that apparently used to be included on HTC roms. It's quick and T9 only rears its face when you're using it.
There are a number of skins out there for it, including a touch-style one that looks close to the new HTC Keypad (sorry for not looking up the creator) but the 0-9 keys are always smaller (due to the extra keys on the sides I guess).
I think it would be great if someone with some knowledge of creating SIPs and skinning them could create a new skin for this Phone Pad that is laid out just like the new HTC Keypad. I imagine this would take a little more modification than just a new skin due to the size of the buttons and the layout. For example, I don't see the need for the arrow buttons on the corners of the Phone Pad, but you can't scroll through the word suggestions with the hardware "D-pad" 'as is'.
I wish I could get this started myself, but unfortunately I have no knowledge of how to make/edit a SIP. I know there's plenty of people out there that can however, so hopefully someone might be interested in making a more usable version of the new HTC Keypad and interested in taking this on.
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Up to 300 chars/min
Excellent word prediction
Mistyping correction new!
Innovative word association
In-place case switching
Input punctuations and digits without view switching new!
Multi-language Support new!
English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch (and more coming...)
Comprehensive dictionaries (40,000 English words, 140,000 French words...)
Dynamic language switching
Innovative word association
Accent letter prediction (e.g. press "a" for "á")
Highly Customizable
Dynamic resizable layout (enlarged/normal/reduced) new!
"My sentences" with parameters (e.g., "See you in X mins") new!
"My commands" (e.g., Undo, Select All+Copy, ...) new!
Customizable emotion symbols (e.g. :-o, ^_^) new!
Drag'n drop SPACE button
Optimized Resource new!
<1M installation size
Install to Storage Card
You can see how big step forward from its V1.
The resizable layout and mistyping correction seems really cool. And still can see a lot of innovations like "parameterized sentence".
Yes I have been using this since version 1 and no doubt it is the best SIP I have ever used. I have a TyTn II and ever since I started using TouchPal I rarely find myself using the slide out mechanical keyboard of the TyTn II.
However presently the version 2 is available only through PayPal and PayPal does not operate in all countries like my place, Pakistan. I have requested them to release this excellent program simultaneously on the regular software sites such as Handango and PocketGear from where we can purchase using the regular credit card. They say they are [email protected] already working on this.
They offer a free version as well. One of my friend tried the free one and found it is also very powerful. But I still bought the pro edition right after i saw the video how you can resize the sip dynamically. very smart approach...
another thing i love is the dynamic language switching. i use two langs and touchpal offers a perfect way to switch between them without penalty. love it...
I spent alot of effort trying to find the perfect on screen keyboard.
(since coming from the treo)
I really liked the one that came with the touch, but I like TouchPal even more.
2 major things that caused me to settle on TouchPal;
1. Two letters per key,
(I just can't get the speed out of small, individual letter keys.)
2. It doesn't interfer with the predictive text like xt9 does with the touch keyboards (20, 40, or Keypad)
What's the difference between 20key and TouchPal?
What's the difference between 20key and TouchPal? They look pretty similiar.
TouchPal seems pretty cool, but I've hit a snag. I notice this when typing in the TO field of a text message. With the default Touch Keypard (that ships with the HTC Touch) in line names from the address book pop up. Say I put the letter T in there, my friend Tom will show up as an auto completion with the phone number.
Is this feature possible with TouchPal?
gocloudy said:
What's the difference between 20key and TouchPal? They look pretty similiar.
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There's a thread dedicated to that topic here in case anyone wants to weigh in: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=153937
There's a much better choice, an innovative software keyboard that seems to be the best available, and I did try many, I've attached the cab here.
These are questions about the stock android keyboard (using jelly bean 4.2 keyboard):
1. How can I modify the language files to create a custom language (for example, I want to stop switching back and forth between languages and have a "SPANGLISH" (english and spanish) hybrid dictionary that auto suggests and corrects at least semi-decently when I switch languages 2 or 3 times per sentence without having to switch the keyboard language back and forth so often... Right now what I do is have both english and spanish with auto correction, and a third language option that doesn't auto correct my typing (but still annoyingly underlines the supposedly misspelled words). Ideally, I want to type my spanglish and have android be cool with it and correct misspelled words. Possible now as is, or would some new coding be required?
2. Can I train or modify the word suggestions in the android keyboard standard languages? I notice a few fairly annoying things like when I type in US ENGLISH the word "dont" (without an apostrophe), autocorrect changes the word to "DONT" (upper case, no apostrophe). Why would it think that when the all upper case DONT is not in any custom dictionary either.
3. Finally, and a little unrelated perhaps but just getting all my keyboard annoyances out of the way... Is there any way to get the stock keyboard to expand text (like auto-text in blackberry).. Such as typing "ttyt" gets replaced by "talk to you tomorrow".. ?
Have searched everywhere on xda and other forums and engines and haven't really found an answer.. but maybe I'm just not looking for the right keywords.. Am willing to get my hands dirty about this if nothing easy and readily available exists if someone can please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Nobody? A lead, a hint?
Hello XDA Developers,
I just giving an idea here for any devs interested.
Why not making a android keyboard that have this functions.
1) I think letter placement customization is cool and i don't know there are other keyboard that let the user customize the placement of the letters [if there is, please point out to me because there are many keyboard apps in Play Store and i don't manage to try them all].
2) Theme is not very important from my point of view, make the keyboard look fancy with glossy color is ok. maybe let the user customize the color of the keyboard buttons also nice since the users do not need any theme.
3) Phone keyboard and QWERTY keyboard function. For most people with large screen does not has problems with QWERTY keyboard but for small screen devices there are. There are only some keyboard that gives Phone keyboard functionality and I love Phone keyboard because I love to message single handed.
Well, and also other things that many functions included in other keyboards in Play Store like swipe, dictionary, etc. etc. etc....
If anyone wants to add something here in this thread, feel free.
Hey guys,
I have a keyboard that I really like. I was wondering if I could enhance it somehow with your help by removing several screen buttons that annoys me, like "help" button above keyboard for example, or add additional language with 3-4 special characters that's not existing in this version at the moment.
Is it possible to perform such modification out of existing apk?
Thanks!