I'm working on a new free split keyboard designed for people who use connectbot or have other full keyboard needs. It's out on the market now. I've heard there are problems on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. I'm still waiting for a logcat from someone with a tab to send me a log cat. It currently only supports 1280x (xoom) resolution devices. Any suggestions on changes to the key layout? I'll probably be adding a Dvorak mode soon (the original version had it).
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.doubtech.inputmethod.latin&feature=search_result
This is an early release of a free Holo themed split keyboard. It currently only supports 1280x800 screens (Xoom, Iconia Tab, etc).
Notable Features
* Selectable Themes (Holographic, Gingerbread, Stone)
* Multiple keyboard modes (split, full, and one handed)
* 100% customizable key and key label color combinations. See the "Colorize" options in Theme Settings on the keyboard preference page.
Keyboard Selection Gestures:
* Swipe right or left to toggle keyboards swipes must be pretty large (avoids accidental keyboard changes)
Change Log
Added support for setting key background and label colors.
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Fixed a bug where keyboard wouldn't reload after a full system reboot.
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Removed gesture mode in favor of using swipes for switching keyboards. Gestures were preventing some multitouch capabilities from working.
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Added ability to change keyboard theme (see Keyboard Theme option in preferences).
Rearranged keyboard so space and other functions are farther from the notification bar.
I am trying it out now and its so far better than the tablet keyboard free I was using. I like the predictive text, but it lags a little.
Been checking it out for the last couple hours. Buttons are a little small but I really like the look and function. Great job.
I like it because it flows more with the HC UI and design.
I know it's an early build so I took that into account.
Right off the bat, you can tell that it just LOOKS nice. Functionally, I have only a few issues which don't take away from the effort that the Dev is putting into this.
The keys are a little small so there is more room for making typo's.
The auto-correct needs some more polish.
I use Thumb Keyboard 4 and like the ability to switch between 1 of 3 layouts (Split, Full and One Handed).
There is a bit more wasted space between the key sections which could be used to make the keys slightly larger.
Regardless of those minor issues, I have been using it all day and quite honestly am getting used to it and am liking what I see, a LOT.
I'll keep this installed and updated to keep an eye on what comes out. A lot of promise and if this is a preview of what else this Dev can do, keep an eye on their other stuff!!!
Ok, why do keyboard devs HATE putting a comma key on the main keydoard sceeen? LOL!
Oh, other than the comma thing, when pressing and holding the backspace key, it does the repeat.
Also, when ending a sentence, doing a dounle space, it does not perfoem an auto period.
Does not auto capiltalize the letter i when placed on it's own.
I'm going to keep using it though!!!!!!
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The keys are a little small so there is more room for making typo's.
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The keys are that small so there is little stretching to reach the main keys. I could possibly make this customizable, but that would be down the road (not a simple task).
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The auto-correct needs some more polish.
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Not sure when I'll get to mess with this, I don't really use it so it's lower priority for me
Timbledore said:
I use Thumb Keyboard 4 and like the ability to switch between 1 of 3 layouts (Split, Full and One Handed).
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What do you think of the layouts on the attached screenshots for one handed mode?
For full I usually just switch to the regular keyboard, but it wouldn't be hard to add a full keyboard mode as well.
I love the look but i would love for:
Fast backspacing (only one at a time right now)
Make the .com and ?123 larger buttons
And possibly make the letter keys a little?diffdrent from number keys as it is a somewhat hard to tell
Put ! On the main keyboard
Other than that amazing!
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New Version on Market
I fixed the problem with backspace not repeating.
New Release
I put the latest version on the market. It includes a new full keyboard and a swappable one handed keyboard. You can now swype or use gestures to switch between keyboards. Let me know if there's anything about keyboard layouts that you would like to see changed.
Great work but there needs to be a little change between letters and everything else. The different colors make the stock one easy to use. If you improve your ease of use, you can start charging money( and possibly donating it to your favorite charity?)
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craby1925 said:
Great work but there needs to be a little change between letters and everything else.
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So you'd like to see more space between characters?
craby1925 said:
The different colors make the stock one easy to use.
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Are you thinking possibly a slightly lighter color for numeric characters vs alpha characters or are you requesting a theme more like the stock keyboard altogether?
Ok, love this keyboard with a couple of exceptions :
1) space key is too close to the bottom, I keep touching the home key or the notification bar...
2) I accidentally switched it to full size and I want it split again...I don't even know how I got it to full...
Other than that this is awesome.
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rmarquez1974 said:
1) space key is too close to the bottom, I keep touching the home key or the notification bar...
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I'm working on that problem right now.
rmarquez1974 said:
2) I accidentally switched it to full size and I want it split again...I don't even know how I got it to full...
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There are several ways to switch keyboard modes.
* There is a keyboard button on the bottom row of each keyboard that will switch to the next keyboard mode. If you want a list of keyboard types (Split, One Handed, or Full) you can long press the keyboard key to get a popup menu.
* You can also switch keyboards by swiping to the right or left.
* You can go straight to the split keyboard by drawing a S on the keyboard
Would a lock keyboard mode button help with the accidentally swapping keyboard problem?
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I'm working on that problem right now.
There are several ways to switch keyboard modes.
* There is a keyboard button on the bottom row of each keyboard that will switch to the next keyboard mode. If you want a list of keyboard types (Split, One Handed, or Full) you can long press the keyboard key to get a popup menu.
* You can also switch keyboards by swiping to the right or left.
* You can go straight to the split keyboard by drawing a S on the keyboard
Would a lock keyboard mode button help with the accidentally swapping keyboard problem?
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I like the idea of a lock mode!
Thanks for the quick response! Got my split back, oh yeah!
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Turns out the last couple revisions didn't get released (goofy new multiapk changes to market publishing).
This version includes:
* Ability to change themes. People who like the gingerbread theme can now switch to it if they go to Keyboard Settings->Keyboard Theme
* There's now space between the spacebar and other core bottom row keys and the notification bar.
* You can disable gestures so you don't accidentally change keyboards or you just don't like gestures. (See "Disable Gestures" in Keyboard Settings)
* You can lock the selected keyboard so you don't accidentally change keyboards. (See "Lock keyboard to selected keyboard?" in Keyboard Settings)
* Colors on space and other control keys have changed in holo mode.
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Turns out the last couple revisions didn't get released (goofy new multiapk changes to market publishing).
This version includes:
* Ability to change themes. People who like the gingerbread theme can now switch to it if they go to Keyboard Settings->Keyboard Theme
* There's now space between the spacebar and other core bottom row keys and the notification bar.
* You can disable gestures so you don't accidentally change keyboards or you just don't like gestures. (See "Disable Gestures" in Keyboard Settings)
* You can lock the selected keyboard so you don't accidentally change keyboards. (See "Lock keyboard to selected keyboard?" in Keyboard Settings)
* Colors on space and other control keys have changed in holo mode.
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Awesome. That's all I gotta say...
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New version out. I changed the gesture method for switching keyboards. Using actual gestures was breaking multitouch features of the keyboard so I switched to using swipe gestures for switching keyboard. This method is also less sensitive so you are less likely to accidentally switch keyboards.
I think I found a bug. Might be the xoom or the rom not sure.
Issue is if I reboot, I lose the setting for this keyboard. I tried to re-enable this keyboard in settings but it was not in the list. I had to uninstall it after trying to clear the cache in applications which didn't work.
Only uninstall/install brought it back.
Anything you would like me to check or test?
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I think I found a bug. Might be the xoom or the rom not sure.
Issue is if I reboot, I lose the setting for this keyboard. I tried to re-enable this keyboard in settings but it was not in the list. I had to uninstall it after trying to clear the cache in applications which didn't work.
Only uninstall/install brought it back.
Anything you would like me to check or test?
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Good find. I think I found it and it should be fixed now. I had the problem and the fix works on my Xoom. After you get updated let me know if you can still repeat the problem.
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Good find. I think I found it and it should be fixed now. I had the problem and the fix works on my Xoom. After you get updated let me know if you can still repeat the problem.
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It survived a reboot, all my settings are still set. Great job!
I really dig this keyboard!
I'd even pay for a key or something,
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Ok, I've searched for this a few times actually, and all I got was Cyanogen's attempt to fix the physical keyboard input a few updates ago. That didn't work so well, and he ended up removing it. So for the actual
question...Is there ANY way to use the IME touch keyboard without having it interfere with the physical keyboard? To make things clearer, whenever i type with the physical keyboard, it'll try to auto correct me and the
"alt" key on the right side doesn't work. So yeah, if someone can find a fix to that, it would be huge to me and I'm sure lots of other people on this forum because I'm not the first one to complain about it. Thanks a lot!
As of now, the closest you can do will also turn off auto-correction on the touch keyboard :/
I have noticed this too. It is very annoying. I just decided to turn off auto correction.
I searched for awhile ago and found if you press the "menu" button twice while the black suggestion screen is up, it will turn off the auto suggestion thing.
From time to time it will show back up, but just hit the "menu" button twice and it will hide itself until you touch the text field (that seems to enable it).
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I searched for awhile ago and found if you press the "menu" button twice while the black suggestion screen is up, it will turn off the auto suggestion thing.
From time to time it will show back up, but just hit the "menu" button twice and it will hide itself until you touch the text field (that seems to enable it).
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Thanks, I was getting tired of the FCs with auto correct too. That helps a lot.
another work around, close the keyboard and open it up again while the autocorrect bar is up. It usually goes away when you do that.
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I searched for awhile ago and found if you press the "menu" button twice while the black suggestion screen is up, it will turn off the auto suggestion thing.
From time to time it will show back up, but just hit the "menu" button twice and it will hide itself until you touch the text field (that seems to enable it).
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Thanks, that seems like an easy temporary fix to this problem. Hopefully sometime in the near future, someone will figure it out!
---- v3.9.9
* Rolled back to the old Launcher (the Advanced Launcher can be found here)
* Fixed the HTC_IME so it doesn't mess with the hardware keyboard (if you have problems, uninstall and reinstall the apk)
* Ported the lazy-dexopt code from donut for development. You need to set ro.build.type to "eng" to use this.
* Updated enhanced Mms app
* Fixed scrolling issues
* Other internal guts from donut
* Automatically enables compcache with no backing swap if you don't have a userinit.sh
* Updated system/xbin tools
* Included htop
* Added links in ramdisk and lib/hw for sapphire
* We are pretty much stable at this point, unless critical bugs are found
^cyanogen's post
Well I'm on 4.1.7 and with auto correction enabled it's still messing with the hardware keyboard.
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Well I'm on 4.1.7 and with auto correction enabled it's still messing with the hardware keyboard.
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Probably because he added a new HTC_IME from hero
if the curser is already in the feild that u want to type in and u click it agian it enables the spell check thing from the ime to pop up when using the hard kb
Guys an easy fix for this is to hit Alt + Space Bar . That is a shortcut to bring up the symbols dialog, just hit the back button and BAM. no more auto-correction. At least until you mistakenly tap inside an already selected box which turns auto-correction back on
I was wondering if this issue had been addressed or if there is any other way to turn it off.
The Alt+Space works great. But just wondering if there has been a permant solution to this.
I love the keyboard, but i realized i never use the enter key on it...and I was wondering if there was a way to replace the enter key with lets say a little optical joystick thing? Kind of like how the Incredible had the optical joystick or whatever you want to call it....but have it as an onscreen thing.
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I love the keyboard, but i realized i never use the enter key on it...and I was wondering if there was a way to replace the enter key with lets say a little optical joystick thing? Kind of like how the Incredible had the optical joystick or whatever you want to call it....but have it as an onscreen thing.
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option to change it to smileys. You can customize the smiley menu so actually you can make it anything you want. So you can set it up so just press that button to say "Hello" (idk if theres a character limit on it)
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Smart Keyboard Pro has an option to change it to smileys. You can customize the smiley menu so actually you can make it anything you want. So you can set it up so just press that button to say "Hello" (idk if theres a character limit on it)
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I appreciate the respond but i was hoping that it someone could customize and put a joystick or something in there...just so when i have paragraphs of text it will be a lot easier to navigate through and fix words...the size of the enter button is comparable to the size of the optical joystick thing on the Incredible and the actually joystick thing on the Eris...i know its wishful thinking just thought it would be neat.
I am with you there. It is a bit annoying to change letters by clicking and picking that blue picket to move it to the letter you want. Being precise on a captive touch screen is basically non existent.
I believe the keyboard app mentioned above has the ability to add arrow keys. I will check and update.
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Smart keyboard pro has an option in the general settings to "show arrows". So as stated above it is imo the best choice.
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Yes there is an option to show arrows. I don't use it because I'm pretty used to where to press to get where I want. But i remember a few years ago when I first got into Android, I did need the arrow keys and they did wonders.
So I've been using swype recently and some things really bug me and have no idea how to fix it. Every time I want to type something and the swype keyboard comes up, it always has the selector arrow present. So if i want to type anything that starts in the upper left right where W is, I have to wait like 3 seconds for the arrow to disappear otherwise, accidentally hit the arrow.
PS. can someone also tell me how to DELETE words. "Soooooo" is in the dictionary for some reason -_-
Not sure to what selection arrow you are referring, but if you go into Swype settings (long press the Swype key) there is an option to manage three user dictionary.
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when you first hit a text box, the swype keyboard comes up. there is a selector slider arrow in the text field, light blue right where the "W" key is on the captivate portrait mode.
i know of the user dictionary, however, is there a way to delete the built swype words..
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when you first hit a text box, the swype keyboard comes up. there is a selector slider arrow in the text field, light blue right where the "W" key is on the captivate portrait mode.
i know of the user dictionary, however, is there a way to delete the built swype words..
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I dont think there is a way to delete from the prebuilt dictionary unless you modified the root file somehow.
Heres a little bit on swype though. I love it. I have used it for almost 2 years now as my only keyboard because Im sold on texting and typing with one hand. Heres the bad part. Swype tries to be an application that can go on almost any Android phone. This attempt to be universal really makes for an application that doesnt perform to its peak on any one phone. To elaborate, swype always has background processes running. Why? Why does a keyboard need that? Second, it does have bugs. More than once it just stopped letting me input text and I was forced to uninstall and reinstall the beta application.
So pick your poison here. You can deal with an app that isnt going to ever be what it could be, or pick a keyboard made for your phone or just one made better. (I stuck with swype.)
Pretty sure the stock keyboard runs in the background too. And when it locks up on you, just switch to the stock keyboard and it will have frozen too. Then switch back
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Swype pet peeves
It turned out to a bloatware with Swype connect spying on you.
I'm using stock Samsung KB on ICS, it has my 2 languages. Not ideal for everyone. There is also Android KB which has all the langs.
hi guys. I just installed cm 10.1 on my nook HD Plus. I like it so far but I have a few unanswered questions I hope some kind soul will help me with. first off how do you take a screenshot?
Is there a way to lock rotation?
next, in stock browser I seem to be having a problem that happens repeatedly where instead of scrolling with one finger I end up zooming in and out. this is very annoying. how can I disable the one finger zooming feature?
if anyone could recommend a good keyboard I can download that has a numbers row on top like Samsung's but it also must keep the microphone key as I use that frequently I would appreciate it.
I'm wondering also if there is a way to move the back, home and recent apps buttons over to one side or the other of the tablet screen
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first off how do you take a screenshot?
if anyone could recommend a good keyboard I can download that has a numbers row on top like Samsung's but it also must keep the microphone key as I use that frequently I would appreciate it.
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You need to set up screenshots in settings. Go to system and power menu.
And I recommend the Hackers Keyboard. It has a 5 row option with the numbers and microphone showing. I also has cursor keys so you can move the cursor around to correct mistakes.
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You need to set up screenshots in settings. Go to system and power menu.
And I recommend the Hackers Keyboard. It has a 5 row option with the numbers and microphone showing. I also has cursor keys so you can move the cursor around to correct mistakes.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Hackers Keyboard is very nice. It is taking some time to get use to it but i I think we are going to get along. Thanks for that and the screenshot.
Well after extensive searches and reading i have found the answer to all my qestions except the one finger scrolling. Tablet ui flash is great for the back, home and recents plus status bar. Rotation toggle is hidden deep in settings..
Anyone notice that the alternate characters on the Samsung keyboard is slow to respond? It works fine, I just find myself having to long press longer to get the alternate character. Causes me to make mistake quite often.
My Note 5 & Note 2 werenxt (<- see) this slow to respond. Anyway to remedy this? I've been comparing with my Note 5 & on the Note 8 itxs definitely slower to respond.
Yeah, it's pretty strange that Samsung doesn't include an option to adjust the response time like you can on third party keyboards. I'd suggest just trying out SwiftKey or others because it can definitely get annoying not getting the special key you want as fast as you want. Champagne problems, I know, but still. It's annoying, nonetheless.
EDIT: As you can see from the attached photo, SwiftKey (which I'm using) has this option but the stock Samsung keyboard does NOT offer it. Shame.
Yeah, same here. I like the Samsung keyboard because when apply a theme the keyboard is included. However, the special character problem plus the auto correct being so bad, I may have to switch.
Same here I like the Samsung keyboard because of it's features, the spen integration is the main one. Themes is also another.
I think I found a fix. Not sure if it's just in my head but it seems like it's ok now & I haven't made a mistake yet since the change. I disabled swipe to type. Well actually I changed it to cursor control, that's how I had it set on my N5. It makes sense as maybe the keyboard is sensing that you may be attemtping to swipe to type a word & causes the delay.
Now to fix my space bar issue but that's just me & my stubby thumb. I keep hitting letters or the period instead of the space bar. Same issue on my N5 & with the N8 being longer it's not helping in landscape mode. Tried changing the keyboard size but then all the letters are too far apart.
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Same here I like the Samsung keyboard because of it's features, the spen integration is the main one. Themes is also another.
I think I found a fix. Not sure if it's just in my head but it seems like it's ok now & I haven't made a mistake yet since the change. I disabled swipe to type. Well actually I changed it to cursor control, that's how I had it set on my N5. It makes sense as maybe the keyboard is sensing that you may be attemtping to swipe to type a word & causes the delay.
Now to fix my space bar issue but that's just me & my stubby thumb. I keep hitting letters or the period instead of the space bar. Same issue on my N5 & with the N8 being longer it's not helping in landscape mode. Tried changing the keyboard size but then all the letters are too far apart.
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The short spacebar on Samsung keyboards is the ONLY reason I have always used Gboard. Shame Samsung never revised it yet.
Like yourself I always hit period instead of space.
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