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Keyboard shortcuts?

Does an app or setting existing that will enable shortcuts in the keyword. For example there are some longer items that I always seem to be typing in, my email address for one. I'd like to find a quicker way of inputting this if possible. Any ideas?

Swype works for my e-mail address.

If you get Smart keyboard pro is has custom autotext like the blackberry. For example if you can have u = you or wth = what the heck and so on. It is the best keyboard out there and there is an unlimited number of shortcuts that can be inputed

[Q] No keyboard macro app in market, really?

I cannot believe there is not a program similar to the windows program "Keyboard Express." If it is useful on a computer it should be doubly so for a smartphone. I am really tired of typing out my email addresses for starters. I am not part of the texting generation typing with thumbs at 100000 keystrokes a minute. Swype is ok, but it would be nice if I could program long strings as a custom gesture or something. Also program macros that could launch programs in batches or with custom parameters. Find it amazing with all the apps out there that I couldn't find one that does this obviously useful function. Maybe I searched for the wrong thing?

I use an app called inserty. It's not as convenient as if it were built in to the keyboard, but it's very flexible, allowing you to insert canned text like email addresses and passwords or text with fill-in fields like the current date and time, your GPS location, etc.
The way it works is that it's a keyboard replacement. To insert something with Inserty, you long-press in the text you're writing, pick "Input method", and pick Inserty. That pops up a list of all your canned phrases; tap on the one you want and then it prompts you for which keyboard you want to go back to. The selected phrase is inserted just as if you had typed it manually, and you're back to your email or SMS or whatever.
As I said, it's not the most convenient mechanism you can imagine, although it certainly beats typing in my longish email address, but I don't think Android has the hooks to do anything less clunky.

The other thing I should mention, since you're a Swype user, is that the SlideIT keyboard has an abbreviation facility that you can customize. For example, you could associate the abbreviation EML with the text [email protected]; every time you trace "eml", one of the words in the suggestion bar will be that abbreviation (abbreviations are shown in green, IIRC), and selecting that entry will insert [email protected] into the text you are writing.

I use Clipper+
It's a clipboard manager. I have mine set easily access via the notification bar. The Snippets feature is what I use the most.
I can easily paste my 18+ character email address, login credentials, short phrases.
Check it out the free version http://market.android.com/details?id=org.rojekti.clipper

Thanks for the replies, I am exploring the programs mentioned. They might not be very direct, but useful.

I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.

Cubeology said:
I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.
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Just want to say thanks for the thread....solved my long entry problems.

Macro Keyboard
Cubeology
You may try the 'Macro Keyboard' , which allows to define aliases
for arbitrary text. Texts can even be parameterized.
Have a look on the Android market. I am not allowed to post a link here yet
Regards
The author

Dialer, that rules 'em all

Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?

I like GoContacts

Try Youlu Address Book..
Very nice dialer application...available free on Market

I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers

Eddie1506 said:
I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers
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Try GoContacts, as Fizzler73 suggested. Works very nicely for me since the post
Can search with accented character and spaces, middle names too and phones too
btw. I prefer to have duplicated contact when multiple numbers are present - that way I can tap on number I want to dial and I'm ready to talk. No additional selecting needed.

travikk said:
Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?
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TouchPal actually supports facebook profile pictures, Since Android 2.2 the option to make data become private was added and facebook in it's never ending quest to annoy it's users marked ALL of it's data as private, so only stock apps ran by user 0 can access it...
this however is easily fixable all you have to do is modify the contacts table to not restrict fb contacts, here's the post with instructions.

Try Angel Dialer/Fast Dialer/Dialer One
i currently use Angel Dialer, but i have been using Fast Dialer for some time. its fast and works perfectly on CM7 Nexus One

[Q] Direct shortcut to compose a draft email

Actually, that title is worded a little poorly. It should probably read: "Direct shortcut to pre-composed draft email"
I would like to make a direct shortcut on my homescreen, which, when pressed will open an already composed draft email, which will include a pre-defined recipient list, pre-composed subject line, and pre-composed body.
I can make a draft email in my default email program with all of the latter information (recipients, subject, body).
I would simply like a way to create a shortcut to this draft that shows up on my homescreen.
Anyone know how I can accomplish this?
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Phone: Motorola Photon 4g (Sprint) - 2.3.4 base stock rom (ROOTED)

Write a small app that on start, automaticly launches a prefilled email intent.

How would I accomplish this using something like Anycut?
I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure on the exact syntax for this application.

For AnyCut here is what I have so far for "Make Your Own":
Action: android.intent.action.SENDTO
Data: mailto:[email protected]
Type: <leave this blank>
This works and opens a new compose email with [email protected] in the "to:" field.
Now, how would I populate the subject line and body of the email?
When I type on the data line:
mailto:[email protected]
subject:test
body:test
it thinks everything after "mailto:" is the email address.
Can someone help?

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I found the app "Email Template Widget" in the market.
It does everything I'd like it to do, but I cannot create a custom widget from it for a specific template. I emailed the dev for a feature request.
That's ok though... this will work for now!

Sharing All Contact Information

When I attempt to "share" all of someone's contact information with another person, only the phone numbers were copied over. This is what I did: I clicked on "People", then I clicked on the "contact" that I wanted to "Share". The "info" page came up and I clicked on "Share Contact". When the "Share contact via" window popped up, I hit "Go SMS Pro". This takes me into my text messaging app, but only copies over the two phone numbers, not the address. How do I "Share" all of a contacts information?

Den in USA said:
When I attempt to "share" all of someone's contact information with another person, only the phone numbers were copied over. This is what I did: I clicked on "People", then I clicked on the "contact" that I wanted to "Share". The "info" page came up and I clicked on "Share Contact". When the "Share contact via" window popped up, I hit "Go SMS Pro". This takes me into my text messaging app, but only copies over the two phone numbers, not the address. How do I "Share" all of a contacts information?
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Guessing this may be something to do with Go SMS because when I try this with a different app, e.g. share to Gmail, the entire contact is put in a .vcf format contact email attachment including phone numbers, emails, addresses, web site, and photo.

U will Send by the sms.

alistairs1 said:
Guessing this may be something to do with Go SMS because when I try this with a different app, e.g. share to Gmail, the entire contact is put in a .vcf format contact email attachment including phone numbers, emails, addresses, web site, and photo.
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When I try to share contact information, there is no "gmail" option in the "Share contact via" window.

Wergin said:
U will Send by the sms.
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Looks like I need to install a different SMS app (I did not like the Hangouts app).