Is there a way to shift the third row keys to the left so they align like a regular QWERTY keyboard? I'm having a hard time typing when they're vertically aligned. Or is there another keyboard that does this?
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Anyone know if there's a keyboard with the third row (below the home row) shifted to the left a bit?
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Hi, i'm looking for a lanscape shortcut icon to go on the bottom right corner of the screen like the xda mini's. (this is needed for me)
Do what I did and assign button 9 as Rotate screen.
Button 9 is on the slide out keyboard at the very bottom. On my version it was a useless O2 button which did much the same as the IE button on the front of the phone, I only have to slide the keyboard out a tiny bit to access it. You could also consider re-assigning one of the other application buttons on the front of the phone if you didn't want to open the keyboard at all.
Check out phm tools. I think in the key tools there's a link to rotate left/right
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hi, thatnks for the replies. i used the 9 button to for landscape mode
Hi, I used to use Teksoft's FingerTouch keyboard, and really liked that its spacebar was all the way to the left (allowing for less error with hitting other keys on accident) rather than in the center.
i know that in touchpal you can change the arrangement of the keys...does anyone know anyway to modify the htc touch keyboard's key arrangement?
thanks a lot.
is there another keyboard that has arrows like the one on the bottom of the stock 2.2 keyboard? i like the stock keyboard in all but its not like the multitouch droid keyboard. i wish someone could put those arrows on that keyboard
Swype has a special editing keyboard, by swyping from the Swype key to the SYM key.
Alternatively, there's a keyboard called Full Keyboard in the market. It's not great for day-to-day typing, and doesn't have a horizontal mode, but it has all of the editing keys you could want (arrows, del, insert, etc.) as well as Ctrl+*letter* keys, making it great for SSH sessions in ConnectBot.
I've been using the demo of Smart Keyboard, available in the Market. You tap the number key twice and it brings up a screen with arrows, a delete key, Tab and and Enter key. Then you switch back by hitting the ABC key. The skin I'm using is the iPhone skin. It has small spaces between the keys. It works for me.
I really like SwiftKey the best. It not only guesses the words you're typing, but also the next word. Works really well, but no arrows.
I also found a useful little app that allows you to have a virtual trackball, called Virtual Trackball. It's useful for moving around when you're trying to edit text. It also allows for a virtual d-pad. It's in the Market and costs .99 Euro. I think it's worth it. The developer is very responsive and is adding more features. I used to have trouble with it going away when running a lot of apps, but the new update seems to have made it persist better. If it disappears, you just hold on the home key to bring up recent apps and turn it on again.
I'm coming from a phone with a trackball... a MyTouch 3G that I had kept current thanks to CyanogenMod. This is much better lol.
I used that trackball though, all the time, mostly for selecting text that I'd screwed up... or to move the cursor between words where I wanted to add a sentence. But sometimes was nice too, for moving to the next form field, or scrolling focus to the "submit" button, etc.
I'm pretty happy with my Swiftkey X keyboard - it's got an option to enable arrow keys. I'm surprised Swype doesn't? I'm used to Swype and really would like to use that.
So my question is twofold:
Any other good keyboards with either a simulated trackpad or arrow keys?
and/or...
How do you live without it? I can adapt if I know the tricks.
geolemon said:
I'm coming from a phone with a trackball... a MyTouch 3G that I had kept current thanks to CyanogenMod. This is much better lol.
I used that trackball though, all the time, mostly for selecting text that I'd screwed up... or to move the cursor between words where I wanted to add a sentence. But sometimes was nice too, for moving to the next form field, or scrolling focus to the "submit" button, etc.
I'm pretty happy with my Swiftkey X keyboard - it's got an option to enable arrow keys. I'm surprised Swype doesn't? I'm used to Swype and really would like to use that.
So my question is twofold:
Any other good keyboards with either a simulated trackpad or arrow keys?
and/or...
How do you live without it? I can adapt if I know the tricks.
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Hackers keyboard is nice. Has the four arrows and a number row. Plus you can enlarge or reduce the keys.
The best solution I have found so far is an app called GameKeyboard. The dpad simulates the repeated keypress of a held down arrow key, or joystick (which is essential for many games).
However, it has bugs, and the qwerty mode is slow (you swipe horizontally across the keyboard to switch between gamepad mode and keyboard mode). I enable it specifically for games, and then switch back to my main keyboard (i.e. swype) for everything else.
Here's a link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locnet.gamekeyboard
in swype there is an arrow option. swype from the swype/option button to the sym/123 button and a arrow keypad comes up. also from sym/123 button to "f" brings up a number pad.
thumb keyboard has arrows
Hello,
Did Samsung cut that num-pad style keyboard layout? Would be terrified. Any possibility to bring it back? What MOD or APP would you recommend?
p.s.
There is only 'dot' key in the qwerty keyboard layout (vertical) - is there a way to put 'colon' instead? Because colon is more often used and that dot we can get by double pressing space... who invited that keyboard in Samsung...
Thanks in advance for any help (especially in 3x4 keyboard).