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Smart Keyboard
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Agreed. Also for words like I'm, they'll, can't, won't, etc., and for words with the "ed", "ing" and plural "s" or "es" endings as ready options after you type the first few letters. Saves a bunch of typing. And I do love being able to type "tomo" and have the word "tomorrow" a touch away.
Hey guys the video about the nexus and keyboard replacement is up and Smart Keyboard is on in the third video at the bottom at the 8:40 mark I recommended it to the guy to include in the video! Your Nexus One questions and requests | DroidDog Android Blog
New day, new release 
v0.3.0 is out, taking into account your comments:
- The font size bug on Nexus 1, Motorola Droid, etc. should be fixed (at least it is in the emulator )
- No more language key (still looking for a replacement for this key, though!)
- Opaque background
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Cyril
v0.3.0 is out, taking into account your comments:
- The font size bug on Nexus 1, Motorola Droid, etc. should be fixed (at least it is in the emulator
)- No more language key (still looking for a replacement for this key, though!)
- Opaque background
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Cyril
Cool! Too bad this version didn't have the fix for the font size bug, but anyway thanks for advertizing it! And it's interesting seeing people typing that fast with my keyboard, because I can't ;-)
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Cyril
Thank you for all fixes but (!) - how can we (russian speaking) now use it without two languages?? And you disabled keyboard type selection, am I right? But font size and popups are ok now. Add, please, at least lang selection button. May be as an option only for those, who use two langs (like russian/english).
Cyril,
Tried out the update for a bit; everything is coming along great. Letter bubbles all display correctly now on Moto Droid, and the symbol key definitely feels more natural & easier to invoke. Opaque background definitely less distracting. Just get auto-correction going and this thing will be ready for show time.
**Bubble display still seems a bit too short though. Any way to make it slightly more persistent (set time interval) even though another key is pressed?
@TapaH:
I think a good compromise might be making the languages directly accessible from an on-screen pop-up menu invoked by long-pressing the symbol key. Pop-up menu would list languages and a link to keyboard options screen; on-the-fly language change should still be pretty efficient this way. Another 'two-click' alternative would be adding the language key back in on the symbol keyboard by shortening the space bar there. Layout would be [123][EN][,][SPACE] Main keyboard is definitely too cramped with the language key always displayed, though.
Tried out the update for a bit; everything is coming along great. Letter bubbles all display correctly now on Moto Droid, and the symbol key definitely feels more natural & easier to invoke. Opaque background definitely less distracting. Just get auto-correction going and this thing will be ready for show time.
**Bubble display still seems a bit too short though. Any way to make it slightly more persistent (set time interval) even though another key is pressed?
@TapaH:
I think a good compromise might be making the languages directly accessible from an on-screen pop-up menu invoked by long-pressing the symbol key. Pop-up menu would list languages and a link to keyboard options screen; on-the-fly language change should still be pretty efficient this way. Another 'two-click' alternative would be adding the language key back in on the symbol keyboard by shortening the space bar there. Layout would be [123][EN][,][SPACE] Main keyboard is definitely too cramped with the language key always displayed, though.
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@soup285: You shouldn't have any problems after installation. Just go to settings>Language & keyboard and it should be listed. If no worky, try reinstall maybe...
Just had another thought on the on-screen language/option popup menu. It can be a nice compact bubble with grid display of Language and options shortcuts that would supermimpose over the keyboard slightly above & right of the [123] key on long-press. This will allow very quick changing since you wont be moving your finger very far at all.
Layout of bubble could be similar to below:
[EN][FR]| O |
[SP][RU]| x |
'O' or some little gear icon for options and an x icon to close out of the menu in case of accidental press.
Just had another thought on the on-screen language/option popup menu. It can be a nice compact bubble with grid display of Language and options shortcuts that would supermimpose over the keyboard slightly above & right of the [123] key on long-press. This will allow very quick changing since you wont be moving your finger very far at all.
Layout of bubble could be similar to below:
[EN][FR]| O |
[SP][RU]| x |
'O' or some little gear icon for options and an x icon to close out of the menu in case of accidental press.
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ugh. i was looking in the wrong place. thanks a million.
Hey, i have noticed that this app doesnt truly feel like multitouch, if you try and type two letters fast, say haha, but over and over, it misses key strokes very often. it sometimes feels better, but it doesnt feel smoother than the stock keyboard on the droid 
it is good for the early stages of its progress tho
another thing i think can be improved should be that after you type symbols or numbers, if you hit space bar it should revery back to the alphabetical keys automatically. also a double tap space bar for period would be nice.
So far so good. good luck and thanks
it is good for the early stages of its progress thoanother thing i think can be improved should be that after you type symbols or numbers, if you hit space bar it should revery back to the alphabetical keys automatically. also a double tap space bar for period would be nice.
So far so good. good luck and thanks
Awesome work on the development of the keyboard, its actually my default now. A few things still exist, one was mentioned earlier. With my droid, letters that are close together are dropping keytouches, for example, pressing j then f only shows f. This happens on both landscape and portrait. This would be above and beyond, but would the voice recognition be difficult to add as well similar to the default 2.1 keyboard?
Thanks for your great work
Thanks for your great work
vpshockwave
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New day, new release
v0.3.0 is out, taking into account your comments:
- The font size bug on Nexus 1, Motorola Droid, etc. should be fixed (at least it is in the emulator
- No more language key (still looking for a replacement for this key, though!)
- Opaque background
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Cyril
Great release. Fixed pretty much everything I had an issue with.
I still can't thank you enough for releasing an MT keyboard. I feel like I've been waiting for ages.