I'm almost certain this is not possible because of the major differences between the two, but I want to be shot down and told it can't be done so I can rest better.
I love Swype in portrait mode but occasionally switch between landscape mode. For me, because of the size of the screen, using swype in landscape is slower then finger pecking.
Would it be possible to have one keyboard set where swype was the default in portrait and the htc 2.2 keyboard was default in landscape... ?
I dont think it can be done, but you do know you can type regularly with swype, too, right? I mean, you can use it as the regular pecking keyboard in landscape also.
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I love the stock ezinput keyboard on my HD, but only in portrait mode.
In lanscape, it's rather awkward to use - buttons are too small, I don't see what I type etc. Spb Keyboard is much better.
So would it be possible to make the Spb keyboard the one for landscape, and ezinput for portrait modes?
One idea I had was to substitute Full QWERTY with spb keyboard in the registry. I tried to replace the path to dll, replacing ezinput.dll with spbkeyboard.dll (or whatever it was called), but it didn't work - all I got was the stock MS keyboard after rotating to lanscape.
So it's not that easy. Any ideas?
went ahead and moved you to your own thread in Q&A Section, you will get more attention here
idea 1: on orientation change, set keyboard.
unfortunately, swype is unreasonable to try to use in landscape mode (for me, at least) and isn't that great as a tap-to-type keyboard. given the amount of people that love swype, would it be possible to somehow set swype to be the keyboard ONLY in portrait mode, but when switched to landscape mode, change the keyboard to another keyboard? maybe the htc ime or the droid x keyboard whenever it gets ported reliably?
idea 2: i use slidescreen (pro) and i love it. it keeps things organized and central for me so that i can easily manage everything. unfortunately i lose the benefit of the regular launcher features. how difficult is it to add a handler for a double-tap of the home button to launch [an app of your choice] adw.launcher?
ideas, comments, suggestions?
if nothing else...how can i go about figuring out how to implement it myself?
For number 2, try either quick desk, or power strip, in the market.
Which of these keyboards have the biggest keys when using the phone in portrait mode; the android keyboard, the ime mod keyboard or better keyboard? I am looking for one that makes it less likely for those of us with fat fingers to fat finger what we are typing.
Um, i'd have to say Smart Keyboard Pro with the HTC Skin has the biggests keys. And it's not as big of a file as the HTC IME mod so there isn't that much lag when using it
come keyboards i have used
There is a keyboard called thick buttons which resizes the keys as you type making the keys that are most likely the next letter in the word larger and the rest smaller, you can also set the resize rate (small,medium, large)
SwiftKey is a pretty cool keyboard that scans your chat history to try to predict what word you will type next. They keys are pretty much the same size as the htc keyboard though. feature updates to the app will be able to scan sms, twitter, email and then create different recommendations based on the app you are typing in i.e. sms, email, or twitter.
Right now my fav keyboard app is touchpal. Don't be afraid that a lot of the text about the app is in chinese in particular parts of the tutorial they board can be set to english and all your txt recommendations will be in english. This keyboard has three layouts (my fav is the compact keyboard which gives you two letters per key but with txt prediction enabled typing is not a problem. they keys in this layout are pretty big to making it hard to miss the one you want) What is really cool about this keyboard is the ability to swipe either side ways to change keyboard layouts or down to access the secondary key (e.g. swiping down on say e will give you a 3) or in full quwerty keyboard swiping up gives you the capital letter of the letter.
Another keyboard you might want to put on your radar is blindtype. It is not out yet but it looks really awesome. It functions similar to swype but instead of swiping your finger across the keys you type normally. Look it up and you can see videos of it being demoed. It is not aval right now though but it looks like the keyboard to have for us with big fingers lol
blindtype DOES look amazing!
cant wait for it.
umm, it does not show up in my market. wth
you might want to check out ultra keyboard it allows you to re-size the keyboard making it bigger or smaller and it also has incorporated swype style typing and it also allows you to use better keyboard themes it's a paid app but in my opinion well worth it
been using big buttons keyboard for months. since i only type one handed in portrait this works perfect. it's laid out different but within a minute of typing im a pro.
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umm, it does not show up in my market. wth
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No offense if you looking for blindtype they said in the post its not in the market. Don't feel bad I didn't completely read it the first time
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So i have swype on my evo and well it is great for portrait mode but when i go into landscape well it just sucks anywho so i was wondering if there is way to get a specific keyboard when portrait and a different specific keyboard in landscape
is there an app or some way to do it rooted way?
I'd love to find something like this too!
Bump - was thinking about this the other day
I mentioned this a long time ago. I really like shapewriter, but would love it if my phone could automatically toggle to the stock keyboard in landscape mode and shapewriter in portrait.
Yeah haha I feel ya, in landscape it takes up the entire screen and swyping across the evo's entire length makes for difficult swyping. I'd much prefer the stock keyboard on landscape
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Zori said:
Yeah haha I feel ya, in landscape it takes up the entire screen and swyping across the evo's entire length makes for difficult swyping. I'd much prefer the stock keyboard on landscape
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DITTO DITTO DITTO!! That would rock my socks off. Until then...
I would love this also, swype kinda sucks in landscape...
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there was another long thread on this awhile ago. someone with the know how stated that it didnt seem possible as security measures in android prevent an application from changing the input panel without user interaction. he mentioned that it may be possible to create a new input panel that has swype as the portrait and standard as the landscape though. would just need a developer skilled enough to pull apart the two apk's and somehow get them to work together.
You realize you dont *have* to swipe around the Swype keyboard right? In landscape mode you can use it as a standard keyboard and tap with your thumbs (or however you'd type on a standard landscape keyboard) and use it like any other standard multitouch keyboard.
I was after the same dual functionality as all of you until I realized this. Not so much a realization as breaking a habit of thought.
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You realize you dont *have* to swipe around the Swype keyboard right? In landscape mode you can use it as a standard keyboard and tap with your thumbs (or however you'd type on a standard landscape keyboard) and use it like any other standard multitouch keyboard.
I was after the same dual functionality as all of you until I realized this. Not so much a realization as breaking a habit of thought.
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yeah, but swype not swyping sucks imo. the droid x multi touch keyboard blows swype away in landscape.
bwahahahaha got it, doesnt work perfectly and required tinkering to get it working but good enough.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/0...ientation-using-keyboardmanager-roottutorial/
have found a few times it doesnt change and have to close the input panel and open it again to get it to change.
actual thread here on xda,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8148657#post8148657
dev is ne0fhyk looks like work has ceased so i advise posting like mad in that thread to get the devs attention and maybe inspire him to pick back up and give some polish to this app.
Not sure if this can be done, but has anyone tried cooking a different portrait and lanscape keyboard into the same apk?
My preferred landscape keyboard is the regular HTC IME, but Swype is way better in portrait.
I'm using one of the themed Swype apk's from this forum because it has the constant mic button.
If these could be combined so I don't have to switch input methods every time I rotate the phone, it would be awesome.
I have no idea if this can be done, but i am def a +1 for this idea. I find it weird that you are the first person to actually say something like this, i always thought of it but never asked lol
same here, would definitely like to have this although I've never seen a mod like this.
Hmmm, that's intestersting. I'm using htc ime metamorph theme on swype, and I love it.
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Check out this Xda post for some cool modding of the HTC_ime keyboard Create your own keyboard
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I'd actually suggest to move this thread over to the development section - This haas more to do with custom dev than with theming or any specific app.
Basically what we're asking for is an orientation-dependent use of specific keyboards, right?
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Yeah exactly. I can't imagine it's that hard, since every other keyboard out there has 2 different forms, one landscape and one portrait. It seems like it would just be a matter of taking the portrait portion of the Swype app, and the landscape from the stock, and mashing them together. I'm sure that getting the dictionary and word suggestion stuff to mesh will be tough, but it can't be very difficult compared to some of the other crazy stuff out there.
(I've seen Ubuntu running on my phone, ffs.)
I like the creative thinking, but I don't get this idea at all. Swype in landscape is useless, but you can still just type on it like any other keyboard regardless of the orientation.
And, there's no way that you could legally take Swype's code and use it in a new apk. On top of that, no one with the insane coding ability that it would take would want to spend the countless hours doing it just to have a better landscape keyboard in swype. The only realistic possibility would be someone writing a program that sets separate keyboard defaults for landscape and portrait mode. But that sounds like a lot of hacking into android for, again, a feature that would have little benefit over just tap-typing with swype when it's in landscape mode.
I actually think it would be very hard to impossible. The problem is that while every other keyboard out there has 2 different "forms" they are still the same program. Android uses XML layout files to define layouts, one is a regular layout, one is a landscape layout, but both run the same programming files on the back end. Swype and the Stock keyboards are VERY different programs. You could potentially create a layout that mimics one or the other, but if you used the base keyboard as your program, it would never support the swype functionality, only tapping keys. Not sure if this explained things well, but it would take quite a bit of coding to make this work, if you ever could.
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Yeah exactly. I can't imagine it's that hard, since every other keyboard out there has 2 different forms, one landscape and one portrait. It seems like it would just be a matter of taking the portrait portion of the Swype app, and the landscape from the stock, and mashing them together. I'm sure that getting the dictionary and word suggestion stuff to mesh will be tough, but it can't be very difficult compared to some of the other crazy stuff out there.
(I've seen Ubuntu running on my phone, ffs.)
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You make some good points. The Swype keyboard, is, after all, a regular keyboard at heart. The swyping bit is just a perk.
After some thought I agree it would be very difficult if not completely impossible to make a mashup like this. But from my perspective, if the Swype application could adopt multi-touch capability, that would be awesome.
When I end up typing landscape on the Swype keyboard, without Swyping, I find that my clumsy fat-fingered-ness would really benefit from multitouch capability.
These are the times I wish I was 1) 10k more times better at programming, and 2) had infinite time to tinker around.
I haven't read the whole thread, but apparently some progress has been made.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636836