Ok so if I swype down the notifications bar halfway, and touch either up or down with another finger it goes that way, so it noticed my finger moved or noticed the second finger, either way it sensed that it moved, but if I use a keyboard and touched one letter, than another letter with another finger it thinks im only pressing that original letter that I first pressed, if there is no mt possible why don't these two examples react similar?
Btw this is a question, not a thread on wether 2.1 has multi touch...
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The stock keyboard is not multi touch capable, the Droid x has a multi touch keyboard though it runs on 2.1 so the copy I have doesn't work on my hd2 running froyo
sent from my desire hd2
post it in the multitouch thread. even if its not a question at least it more on topic in there
I updated my wifes stock ATT streak from 1.6 to 2.2 using qdl tool. Everything went great without any errors. It is currently set for the swype keyboard. The usual setting to switch the default keyboard is not there. The settings for the swype keyboard and the android keyboard are all there. She hates the swype keyboard and wants to switch to the android keyboard. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Long press in a text field should bring up a menu, you should see 'input method'. touch that, should bring up keyboards...
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That worked thanks for the help.
I switched to Gingerbread Keyboard (ported by Steven Lin) and tried Smart Keyboard Pro, however, both of these keyboards are posing the same problem.
When I switch to landscape mode in 'Compose E-mail', the textbox shrinks to such a degree that I can barely see it as it is blocked by 'Send, Save As Draft, Delete'.
This doesn't happen with the STOCK 2.2.1 keyboard (Touch Input). Anybody have an idea as to why this is happening?
I'm using Ice-glacier 1.1.4 ROM btw.
--raheel
I have grabbed the Gingerbread keyboard from Myn's Rom thread and flashed it to my Mikfroyo Rom 4.5 Evo. It works except it does not feel as accurate as the Touch keyboard that comes with Mikfroyo. I would like to calibrate it however that is missing. I can calibrate under the Touch but when I go to do that, the Touch keyboard comes up. Obviously.
Any ideas where I can find the Gingerbread Keyboard calibration apk?
I did search but didn't get a clear picture
Sorry for the repost.
I want a keyboard where i can longpress the qwerty keys to type numbers instead of switching to number mode.
I saw both motorola milestone 2 and nexus S has such a keyboard. it seems it is part of the standard gingerbread keyboard.
Is it possible to enable this in the Arc or do I have to install 3rd party application?
Are there any recommended 3rd party apps for this?
There are so many keyboards availble in the market. Give it a try. Personnely I use Swype and it does more than what you need.
Check it out here.
Swype and SlideIt are good if u like the slide your finger to write. I highly recomend SwiftKey. After some days when it's learned your writing it's awesome and makes typing very fast
Smart Keyboard
I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
a good alternative keyboard is Thumb keyboard...I use it for my Dell Streak and I have used it on the arc also...if you select the 5' tablet option, ull get numbers directly without need to long press on letters or even switching to number mode..
Nimche said:
I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
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thanks this is perfect.
Swype. Best there is.
The stock keyboard sucks. really badly. I personally just recommend the stock 2.3 gingerbread keyboard, has multi touch and i can type super fast with it. Its free on the market as well, just search for gingerbread keyboard.
TRY THESE TWO, THESE ARE BEST out there:
1. FLEXT9
2. PERFECT KEYBORAD (I am using this)
I use swiftkey keyboard, it does the longpress thing, and also has the option to switch to numeric keyboard.
what beats me is why they replaced the stock andriod gingerbread keyboard with the default one which is just not as good.
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I use this Keyboard from Android 2.3 and does the job
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thanks for this bought the donate version
anyone notice the gingerbread keyboard in the market takes up more ram
Umlauts please
any recommendations for a keyboard which has umlauts in the layout (without long-press)
I'm speculating that all arch like mine have 3 keyboard by default, the default input, chinese and japanese keyboard.
to my suprise the chinese one had a few tricks on it. swipe to change querty <=> phone pad layout, long press, swipe down, smiley & symbol lock button, different landscape potrait layout.
down side: english chinese dict only, cannot use user word in phone pad with prediction on, don't think support multiple touch, vulnerable en/chinese button, prediction button use menu, not toggle.
definitely worth trying before investing keyboard app.
better keyboard works great
daveybaby said:
I use swiftkey keyboard, it does the longpress thing, and also has the option to switch to numeric keyboard.
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It is a great keyboard but the eats up quite a lot of memory...
I bought Swift even tough it has no umlauts in the layout. Fit's me very well except for that i still would prefer to have separate buttons for the umlauts.
I also tried "Smart Keyboard" which has äöü buttons but the completion is far from what swift does.
I also tried "Ultra Keyboard" looked nice but the one day trial was to short to decide if it is worth the money (especially as i already purchased swift at that time)
Currently I hope the upcoming Swift update will give us configurable layouts.
question re installing keypads
I tried installing the gingerbread keyboard mentioned above, but I cant get it to replace the arc kb. Do you have 2 b rooted?