Database Develop

alternate keyboard

just wondering if anyone has gotten another keyboard to work on the gtablet. I have tried swype and swiftkey they both will install fine but I am unable to enable them in settings.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Crimton said:
just wondering if anyone has gotten another keyboard to work on the gtablet. I have tried swype and swiftkey they both will install fine but I am unable to enable them in settings.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately it can't be done on the stock roms or ones based off of the stock Rom. It's due to the nonstandard settings app they decided to include with the tablet. Some of the core API calls have been removed.

Slide It
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9248453&postcount=2732
I asked the same question regarding swype. I've tried it Slide It also and the keyboard is really big, but it's wide, which I like. Unfortunately, some screens will not bring the keyboard up because the height is too high. Shapewriter sizes the keyboard in the original size of a phone, it works and installs, but it's still very small. Ultra Keyboard has a similar problem, except it put the keyboard in the middle of the screen.
Slide It seems to the best option for now.

dkhilo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9248453&postcount=2732
I asked the same question regarding swype. I've tried it Slide It also and the keyboard is really big, but it's wide, which I like. Unfortunately, some screens will not bring the keyboard up because the height is too high. Shapewriter sizes the keyboard in the original size of a phone, it works and installs, but it's still very small. Ultra Keyboard has a similar problem, except it put the keyboard in the middle of the screen.
Slide It seems to the best option for now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i installed slide it from a titanium backup and it is the same way, it can't be enabled in settings. at least not on tnt lite.

Crimton said:
i installed slide it from a titanium backup and it is the same way, it can't be enabled in settings. at least not on tnt lite.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Using it right now as I write this, I'm using Zpad Clean .3 though.

I had the Droid 2 Multitouch KB working a few flashes back. Worked well but the letter/numbers were all tiny labels on large keys. Think I'm gonna try and "theme" it to look better on this larger screen.

Smart Keyboard Pro is working great. Love this one since you can make the keys bigger like the ipad.

mhoepfin said:
Smart Keyboard Pro is working great. Love this one since you can make the keys bigger like the ipad.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
on what rom? i'm on zpad and it has the stock android keyboard with voice input button which is great. i tried installing swype but it says something about swype can't install on 1024x600 screen size. i wish someone could modify swype to work.

Crimton said:
on what rom? i'm on zpad and it has the stock android keyboard with voice input button which is great. i tried installing swype but it says something about swype can't install on 1024x600 screen size. i wish someone could modify swype to work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Zpad rom. You can get the it from the market. I love this keyboard. I've been using it on the Evo for quite some time.

I'm using the regular android keyboard with the language in the space bar. I enabled english and Spanish in the settings. It seems to work but the dictionary never changes. In the settings it states that the dictionary is available! Is this a bug??
I am using tnt lite. With clockwork recovery .8

Thumb Keyboard has saved some hand cramps for me.

Thumb keyboard - what rom?
I'm on tnt-lite and while I can get Better Keyboard and other to show up using Root Explorer to drop the APK into system/app, but when I do that with thumb keyboard, I can select it but it just forces close every time.

Bought Thumb Keyboard, never looked back.

Thumb keyboard!

Any work around for getting thumb keyboard working on tnt lite?
Sent from my GTablet-TnT-Lite using Tapatalk

Swiftkey tablet mode

Has anyone figured out how to get Swiftkey keyboard to work in tablet mode on the Gtab? Apparently it's the same app, but it auto-detects a Galaxy Tab and adjusts its layout for a tablet.
Is there a way to fool the app into using this layout on the Gtab. I, for one, really miss the text prediction in Swiftkey, but I can handle the squashed keys.
Edit: nevermind. The tablet layout is apparently not available yet.

Prof-KOS said:
Has anyone figured out how to get Swiftkey keyboard to work in tablet mode on the Gtab? Apparently it's the same app, but it auto-detects a Galaxy Tab and adjusts its layout for a tablet.
Is there a way to fool the app into using this layout on the Gtab. I, for one, really miss the text prediction in Swiftkey, but I can handle the squashed keys.
Edit: nevermind. The tablet layout is apparently not available yet.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you are bored and want to try something new, give thumb keyboard a try. I have used it in both tablet and standard mode and both work well. Allows for full height adjustibility in both landscape and portrait modes and also has the predictive text.

I am actually using thumb keyboard, but I find that I'm so used to using SwiftKey on my N1, that I make more mistakes and expect the word prediction to fix. Or type slower and more carefully.
I love Thumb Keyboard. If I could make a Frankenstein monster of Thumb keyboard's layout and skin and SwiftKey's prediction I would.

Prof-KOS said:
I am actually using thumb keyboard, but I find that I'm so used to using SwiftKey on my N1, that I make more mistakes and expect the word prediction to fix. Or type slower and more carefully.
I love Thumb Keyboard. If I could make a Frankenstein monster of Thumb keyboard's layout and skin and SwiftKey's prediction I would.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Something else you can try depending on the size of your hands which works well for me: take thumb keyboard out of tablet mode and put it back into standard mode, then make the keys larger. I make very few mistakes this way and it much easier to hit the keys. Then again if you have smaller hands it may not work as well for you, but its something to try.

[Q] Is there a way to disable the onscreen keyboard when using an external keyboard?

Hi all,
is it possible to stop the onscreen keyboard being displayed when you are using a BT or USB keyboard?
It just wastes half of the screen when you don't need to see the onscreen keyboard.
thanks,
Rich

Try disabling the keyboards from language and inputs.
but I presume on of them is system persistent. But just try and let us know.

There is a Null Keyboard app that just does nothing. I installed that and select it when I use an external keyboard.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wparam.nullkeyboard

Thanks Null Keyboard is what I need. Shame there isn't an option to do it through the system. It seems pretty obvious that if you have an external keyboard connected, you aren't going to need the onscreen keyboard.

It is actually quite easy, all you have to do is tap the return (back) button and the keyboard will sink in. I use a BT keyboard with both Samsung's QWERTY and Google's Japanese input (Beta) and in both cases I can get rid of the onscreen keyboard without a hitch.
What I'm really curious to know thugh if there is a good tutorial for keys you can use to edit while writing, selecting, copying, pasting, making bold or cursive, that kind of thing.

[Q] Smaller onscreen keyboard?

Hi all,
I'd like to get an smaller onscreen keyboard that doesn't take up half of the screen. This would allow me see more at a glance. Currently I hide/unhide the keyboard when I want to see more, but that is annoying because half the time when you unhide the keyboard, it covers up the part of the document you want to edit.
I've found SlideIT keyboard which lets you resize the keyboard, which is pretty cool.
It has a Swype like function as well as normal tap. The swype like functions works pretty well, but it doesn't seem as good as Swype in terms of picking the correct word. I think this is partially an accuracy thing (you have to be more accurate with SlideIt) and also there are quite a few common words that haven't been in the dictionary (but I've been adding them as they occur, so this should reduce over time).
Does anyone know of any other keyboards that aren't as big as the stock keyboard?
I'm in the 15 day trial of Slide IT, so if I don't find another, I'll probably end up getting this one.
thanks,
Rich

Thumb keyboard lets you alter the height and width, but no swype function. I've been using TK for almost 2 years. Developer is very responsive.
kraz
Sent from my Beautiful, White GT-N7000 using xda premium

I believe swiftx keyboard allows you to change the height and width of keys
Sent from my MB870 using XDA Premium App

Thanks guys very helpful. Neither of those keyboards say that you can resize them in their market descriptions, which is why I didn't try them before.
I liked Swiftkey the best out of the 2. The word prediction is pretty amazing in Swiftkey. I could be incredibly sloppy with my typing and it still picked the right word most of the time.
It does require thumb typing to be fast though, and I realised that most of the time I hold my phone cradled in one hand and then use the other to swype or tap out words with 1 or 2 fingers or the SPen.
I like the word prediction of Swiftkey, but the input method and smaller keyboard size of SlideIT... I'll keep trying both of those for a bit longer before deciding...
Cheers,
Rich

Smart Keyboard is also an option. You can customize it in various ways. Among others you have the possibility to adapt the size of the keys and therefore the entire keyboard.
Sent from my rooted Galaxy Note using XDA Premium App

Thanks. I like that you can get Smart Keyboard to take up less screen space than Swiftkey.
But I think I like the word prediction on Swift Key better.
And I still think swiping is quicker for me, although the SlideIT keyboard is not as good as the Samsung Swype for word prediction and being lenient on how accurate your swipe path needs to be.

4.2 Keyboard request

I'm not sure why android continues to so this, but why can't they allow for long press options on the keyboard? My phone keyboard shows the numbers as long press options at the top, my tablet does not.
The only long press options on the keyboard are punctuations.
Is there a way to fix this? Use phone keyboard on tablet?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

I wonder why that is as well. I looked through all the keyboard settings and didn't see an option for that but really would like to have it.

Try the Swype Beta keyboard (google it). Numbers are a long press.

Not really interested in swype or any of the other keyboard options. I like stock functions the best, just curious about the long press buttons missing in tablet format.

Personally that's the reason why I use stock keyboard on my Tablet. I use Swiftkey on my phone because it's quick, and the Gingerbread keyboard isn't as nice as the stock Jelly Bean. I really like how it isn't cluttered and is just clean.