I just bought my elderly dad an iconia. He's been typing away in Vietnamese with a keyboard and an onscreen viet symbols on the viewsonic gtablet.
The problem is honeycomb won't have an onscreen keyboard pop up if you have a usb keyboard plugged in. Please help me. Is there anyway I can enable both the physical and soft keyboards so he can type Vietnamese symbols?
goodintentions said:
I just bought my elderly dad an iconia. He's been typing away in Vietnamese with a keyboard and an onscreen viet symbols on the viewsonic gtablet.
The problem is honeycomb won't have an onscreen keyboard pop up if you have a usb keyboard plugged in. Please help me. Is there anyway I can enable both the physical and soft keyboards so he can type Vietnamese symbols?
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I haven't tried it, but I would try tapping and holding the input field and see if a pop up menu comes up with the option of showing the soft keyboard?
I think you can push the up key on the tablet to bring it up, theres also settings i believe for the keyboard.
So let me start out by saying I like the default JB keyboard. However it is missing 2 crucial things for me. A tab button and the ability to long press keys. Has there been any modding going on yet for the keyboard?
Long press keys work fine
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pixelchemist said:
Long press keys work fine
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I miss all the extra long-press characters, too. It used to be the top row could be long-pressed for numbers and stuff, and other keys for other symbols. I never use the accents anyway, though I think it is good that Google includes them.
I really like the new keyboard, too. I still use thumb keyboard instead, so I can have escape, tab, page up and page down keys, but I prefer how the default keyboard provides various punctuation. It's easy to get to the - and _ symbols, apostrophe and comma have their own keys, and so on.
The new look is very clean, though.
ldrn said:
I miss all the extra long-press characters, too. It used to be the top row could be long-pressed for numbers and stuff, and other keys for other symbols. I never use the accents anyway, though I think it is good that Google includes them.
I really like the new keyboard, too. I still use thumb keyboard instead, so I can have escape, tab, page up and page down keys, but I prefer how the default keyboard provides various punctuation. It's easy to get to the - and _ symbols, apostrophe and comma have their own keys, and so on.
The new look is very clean, though.
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I'm going to try and use the keyboard from the cm9 rom on the touchpad since it has more options for long press keys and a tab button. Hopefully it installs.
Long press is working great on 4.1.1 keyboard. My question is if there is a way to enable popup on key press. Not only I like that feature but it helps me type also. Thanks!
Hacker's Keyboard from the Play Store will give you either the Gingerbread style keyboard or a full 5 row keyboard.
Both the Gingerbread and 5 row keyboard have the long-press feature on the number keys, with the full set of symbols. It also has popup keys.
The 5 row is a full keyboard with arrow keys, ESC, CTL, ALT, FN keys, etc. Works great in terminal emulator, it's essential with vi.
I use the 4 row Gingerbread in portrait mode and the 5 row in landscape. That's the default, but you can change it.
The only thing I don't like in Hacker's Keyboard is the click sound - it is much louder than the stock click. Probably easy to fix by swapping out a resource or sound file, but I haven't looked.
Is there a keyboard available for Nexus 7 that is smaller than the stock keyboard?
Even in portrait mode the keyboard feels unnecessary large. It would be easier to swipe if the keys were not as far apart.
I would prefer if it was "phone sized" also on a tablet.
It would also be useful if there was a numpad using the now free space on the sides, but it is not necessary
While searching for this I have seen some keyboards that splits the keyboard and adds a numpad in the center, but I guess those are made for thumb-keying and not swiping, so this is not really what I'm looking for.
Does such a keyboard exist?
I know that my Logitech K400 keyboard with touchpad can cause some Android apps (like the Dolphin Browser) to zoom in/out when I hold CTRL and swipe with 2 fingers up or down.
I have written an app that responds to pinch gestures (via OnTouch and a ScaleGestureDetector as shown at can we use scale gesture detector for pinch zoom in android) on the device's touchscreen. It works fine with the touchscreen.
However, my app does not see any touch events when I hold CTRL and swipe with 2 fingers up or down on the K400. I have tried debugging over wifi while the K400 is plugged in and set breakpoints in the OnTouch listener. I, of course, hit the breakpoints fine when using my fingers on the device's touchscreen. And I get a touch event when I press the K400's mouse buttons. But no joy with the CTRL-swipe.
So what kind of event is the K400 sending to the browser when I hold CTRL and swipe with 2 fingers up or down? I would like to see if I can trap these. Is there some debugging app that can help me ID what is going on here? I have seen at least one app for testing the key codes sent from the keyboard. But nothing so far for the touchpad on the K400.
Thanks in advance for any help/tips you can provide.
What keyboard do you all use/recommend with this phone? I used to use kii long ago, but it seems they've been removed. I would like a keyboard I can push to the side for one handed typing.