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[Q] Fast way to change or switch your Keyboard Language?

I've been hunting this issue on XDA but I've not found a solution, it's the eternal issue of keyboard switcher. I speak several languages, like a lot of people here. It is a royal pain to manually switch from english to french to spanish and back and forth. everytime i want to write in one language i have to change the entire locale.
So far, I found this:
-apowersms (if you go to setting, there is a language filter, which is very interesting because you can choose which language keyboard you need) (and the keyboard layout isn't so bad looking)
- softkeyboard (for the keyboard button, when you press it long, you can directly change to the language you want)
I'm trying to find, how to create a custom shortcut maybe to switch between the languages that I speak. something like this, so that I can switch languages for my gingerbread keyboard.
Does anyone out there have a better solution for my problem. let me know.
thanks

Using stock keyboard, go to the keyboard settings and search for something like "languages". Select the languages you want to use. Now swipe your finger on the space key to switch between the selected languages
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Download AnySoftKeyboard (free), or SmartKeyboardPro (paid).

[Q] How to chane languages with the QWERTY keyboard on a milestone?

Hello.
I have a Motorola Milestone running CM7.
My problem is that I need to use another language other than English with it but can't change the typing language when using the physical QWERTY keyboard.
In the language settings both English and the other language are selected and I can switch between them when using the virtual keyboard.
The physical keyboard has a lang changing button but after flashing CM7 it turned into "menu".
Trying to change that using an option in OpenRecovery made the whole keyboard stop working.
However if I install AnySoftKeyboard from the market and use it, I can use Shift+Alt on the physical keyboard to change layouts.
Anyone knows how to change the language on the physical keyboard while using "Android Keyboard" as an input method?

want to know too.

I have same this issue ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1352426
and waiting for the developer to solve it..!!!!

Hello.
I am not familiar with your device(XT702) but in CM7 for milestone ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941346 ) by kabldan starting with version 7.1.0.3, the language key can be used to change between languages as it was intended.
He managed to make it work so it might be a good idea to address him with this subject.

Go Keyboard.

Yuh gotta try this - definite best keyboard i've used.
Info:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/go-keyboard/com.jb.gokeyboard
GO Keyboard can make your typing fast and smart. It is a must choice of Android mobile phone.
Main features:
1.Predict in multiple languages and keyboard layouts
2.Has accurate dictionaries
3.Smart to set skin and back ground
4.Import contacts
5.Import SMS To user dictionary
*Auto-memory and correct as you type
*Multi-point touch keyboard
**Start GO Keyboard
First: after download GO Keyboard, go into the “menu”, find out “language and keyboard” in settings, choose GO keyboard.
Second: long press any input box until popup a menu, choose “Input method”, choose “GO Keyboard”
**Gesture support:
Swipe left or right to switch layouts
Swipe down to close the keyboard
Supported languages:
English
German (DE)
French (FR)
Spanish (ES)
Italian (IT)
Portuguese (PT)
Russian（RU）
Swedish（SV）
Dutch(NL)
Norwegian(NO)
Romanian(RO)
Hungarian(HU)
Polish(PL)
Greece (EL)
Slovakia (SK)
Finland (FI)
Denmark (DA)
Bulgarian（BG）
Czech(CS)
PinYin（ZH）
Stroke(ZH)
Cangjie（ZH）
Simplified Cangjie（ZH）
Korean (KO)
Hebrew (HEB)
Arabic (AR)
There will be more multiple languages that we are going to predict.
More fascinating, more freedom is our destination.
If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by email, thank you!
Keyword：
GO Keyboard keyboard gokeyboard Keyboard Input Method Editor input IME GO Touch GO Dev Team GO Launcher Ex GO SMS GO Weather gosms key gocontacts contact dictionary voice input
Recent changes:
Version：0.2.0
Updated contents：
1. Add Arab keyboard and dictionary.
2. Add Hebrew keyboard and dictionary.
3. Add Korean keyboard (two keyboard layout.)
4. Add Hong Kong Cangjie, Sucheng keyboard layout.
5. Add Taiwan Cangjie, Sucheng keyboard layout.
6. Add the operation of the trackball (Roll left and right to choose the candidate word, roll up and down to turn the page of candidate word).
We are always listening and respecting your feedback & advice
Content rating: Everyone
Latest version: 0.2.0 (for all Android versions)

The Beta worked for about 14 days, and then the phone started doing some random hangs. and after not being able to type anything in a SMS i changed the keyboard back, and my phone is now normal.
Cool keyboard, but might cause problems....

when the beta stops working you might want to try Perfect Keyboard, and Smart keyboard, they have similar options, except importing SMS into dictionary.

Thanks for it
I will try and see
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i can absolutely recommend swiftkey. try it guys.

This looks nice. Will try it out...

Go Keyboard problems
1. I use the speech recognition a lot. When I set the Voice Key to 'On main keyboard' I loose the Comma key.
Is there any way I can get both the voice key and the comma key on the main screen?
2. When I use the voice recognition (the Voice Recognition is great, 90% or better) but if I try to edit the phrase it shows because a letter is incorrect. I put the cursor to the right of the letter and hit backspace or space and it pastes the whole phrase in again in the middle of the phrase I am trying to edit. Any idea how to avoid this?
I really like Go Keyboard, but these 2 things are driving me nuts.
Regards,
Mark

I cant seem to be getting the T9 on the messaging. As soon as i click on the msg body , the t9 button just disaapears.. it appears on when I am adding a contact name... any clue on how to fix this ?

How does it compare to Swype?

[Q] How to set SWYPE as default keyboard?

Hi,
I couldn't find solution for my problem so I made that thread.
I'm freaking out when I reboot my phone, wanna send message or something and ******* android default keyboard comes up. I must go back, go to the settings, laungage & keyboard and, set swype as default and then change input method. Can I replace system keyboard app with SWYPE? If yes then how?

Delete LatinIME.apk from /system/app

Amazing, it worked! Thanks. Problem solved.

No problem, you could delete Userdictionaryprovider too since its only used for the stock keyboard.

[Q] How to make transparent status bar?
made post not thread, sorry -.-

Now I am using KM Launcher (swype in portrait and smart keyboard pro in landscape mode) and again I must check everytime this keyboard in settings after reboot. What should I do?

kevinlekiller said:
Delete LatinIME.apk from /system/app
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This has been driving me mad too, but this worked a treat - thanks...

Swype as default keyboard
Simply ensure that swype is not installed to SD card.
Then, go to settings and set Swpe as default keyboard
When using keyboard, for the 1st time after this,
Long press TAB and again select Swype.
That is it

ckgosain said:
Simply ensure that swype is not installed to SD card.
Then, go to settings and set Swpe as default keyboard
When using keyboard, for the 1st time after this,
Long press TAB and again select Swype.
That is it
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Read before posting. He has done it already. And it is a very old thread...

[Q] Russian keyboard

Any chance I could get Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard on my rooted Kindle Fire HD?

vadimus123 said:
Any chance I could get Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard on my rooted Kindle Fire HD?
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This is very easy. If you install Morelocale2 app, you will get Russian keyboard automaticly. But you wan't be able to switch it to English and back automatic ly. Or you can install any keyboard you want to system/app folder and use nook tools to switch keyboards.

Melodycd said:
This is very easy. If you install Morelocale2 app, you will get Russian keyboard automaticly. But you wan't be able to switch it to English and back automatic ly. Or you can install any keyboard you want to system/app folder and use nook tools to switch keyboards.
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Thanks for you response. I successfully installed Morelocale2 app and now I have UI in Russian. However, standard keyboard still shows only English characters even with Nook Tools showing keyboard language as 'Russian'
As for installing additional keyboard - any recommendations here? This is my first Android device so I don't have too much knowledge of it.I tried to install what was claimed to be a standard ICS keyboard but it kept crashing every few seconds...

Touchpal has a Russian language pack that will change your keyboard's layout to the Cyrillic lettering. And you can easily change between layouts on the fly without closing the keyboard.

soupmagnet said:
Touchpal has a Russian language pack that will change your keyboard's layout to the Cyrillic lettering. And you can easily change between layouts on the fly without closing the keyboard.
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This still does not work. Once I put "TouchPal_Keyboard_4.8.apk" into system/app, reboot and switch to it from Nook Tools I'm getting popup message "Touchpal Keyboard stopped" every 5 seconds and that's it.

Did you try to copy files from data/data/app.name/lib to the system/lib?
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timurg said:
Did you try to copy files from data/data/app.name/lib to the system/lib?
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Folder /data/data/com.cootek.smartinputv5/lib is empty

In my case, for Smart Keyboard Pro, full sequence looks like this:
1. install SKP;
2. copy apk to system/app;
3. change permissions to wr-r-r;
4. copy files from data/data/com.smartkeyboard/lib to system/lib;
5. reboot device;
6. choose SKP in Nook Color tools as a default;
7. profit)
Unexpected outcome: after I've selected the Russian layout as an option in SKP, in Nook color tools appears choice to mark the “Russian Amazon Keyboard“ as a default. In opposite to third party keyboards native amazon keyboard is not overlaid by navigational panel in landscape orientation. The obvious minus- there is no prediction dictionary for Russian.
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timurg said:
In my case, for Smart Keyboard Pro, full sequence looks like this:
1. install SKP;
2. copy apk to system/app;
3. change permissions to wr-r-r;
4. copy files from data/data/com.smartkeyboard/lib to system/lib;
5. reboot device;
6. choose SKP in Nook Color tools as a default;
7. profit)
Unexpected outcome: after I've selected the Russian layout as an option in SKP, in Nook color tools appears choice to mark the “Russian Amazon Keyboard“ as a default. In opposite to third party keyboards native amazon keyboard is not overlaid by navigational panel in landscape orientation. The obvious minus- there is no prediction dictionary for Russian.
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Well, I will try SKP tomorrow. Also, about #3 (permission change) - I noticed that Touchpal apk I copied into system/apps has rw-rw-rw. Should I remove writing permissions "group" and "other" or I can leave them as they are?

Sure, you have to remove write for other two groups, this is the point. Try it with your keyboard. it may help.
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timurg said:
Sure, you have to remove write for other two groups, this is the point. Try it with your keyboard. it may help.
Sent from my KFHD rooted
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Just changed permissions for Touchpal apk in system/app - still same behavior.

So now restart your device, and install keyboard One more time. It should work now. I had the same problems with swype keyboard.
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Melodycd said:
So now restart your device, and install keyboard One more time. It should work now. I had the same problems with swype keyboard.
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Finally, I was able to get it working. It looks like it did not install properly first time - that's why 'lib' folder was empty. After I re-installed Touchpal I've got several files there. I copied them into /system/lib and after reboot I was able to switch to Touchpal keyboard with Nook Tools.
After that I realized that to be able to switch to Russian Touchpal needs to download Russian language pack and it always fails to do it from it's settings page. However, when I manually downloaded it from CooTek site and installed I've got Russian keyboard working!
The only question I have left is about keyboard itself. When I switch to landscape mode by rotating my Kindle the keyboard correctly changes its location staying on the bottom of screen, But, it does not extend it's width keeping it exactly same as in portrait mode.Is it normal or there is a setting somewhere I'm missing?
Anyway, thanks everyone for your help.

That is definitely not normal.

soupmagnet said:
That is definitely not normal.
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This is how all keyboards work on our KFHD, except stock Amazon keyboard. I think those keyboards doesn't support 'hidding' navigation bar and use all screen width to display the keyboard. As i understand, keyboards from market should be updated to work properly. I don't know any device, where navigation bar is popping up and then hide...

Still stock Amazon's keyboard is the best. Is it possible to modify keyboard apk to add language change button? How hard is it? I am sure that this kind of modified Amazon's keyboard would be very helpfull for all not US users... Just if somebody know the thread where we can ask for such modification, point me please! :laugh:

I‘m using space bar to toggle between layouts. I unistalled all third party keboards and Amazon one works like a charm for me.
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timurg said:
I‘m using space bar to toggle between layouts. I unistalled all third party keboards and Amazon one works like a charm for me.
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I did try your method, but it didn't work for me. I did install keyboard pro, but after that, long press in Amazon's keyboard give me an option to change keyboards, but not the language. As for now I have 4 keyboards installed.
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Try this one - in Nook Color Tools chose “all settings“ and the first option (without name) provide screen were you can choose different layouts.
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timurg said:
Try this one - in Nook Color Tools chose “all settings“ and the first option (without name) provide screen were you can choose different layouts.
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Wow! That's even better! Thanks a lot!