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Anybody have any recommendations on a keyboard to use with Vegacomb? I like the big keys with the stock keyboard but it's not very customisable, i tried Smart keyboard pro but they keys are too small, and if I change the key height, all the letters are then misaligned with the keys.
I guess it's because of the different screen resolution, so does anybody know of any similar keyboards to smart keyboard with bigger keys?
meehog said:
Anybody have any recommendations on a keyboard to use with Vegacomb? I like the big keys with the stock keyboard but it's not very customisable, i tried Smart keyboard pro but they keys are too small, and if I change the key height, all the letters are then misaligned with the keys.
I guess it's because of the different screen resolution, so does anybody know of any similar keyboards to smart keyboard with bigger keys?
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I'm using Smart Keyboard Pro and have no such problems.
And few posts down there is a thread about which keyboards work best with Advent Vega.
And it's not too long either.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915686
sorted it now, updated to newest version and its much more usable, thanks anyway.
I like Thumb Keyboard - lots of styles and sizes to choose from.
I'm a big fan of Swiftkey X for tablets. The default keyboard is nice because of the two shift keys but having to press one key to get to numbers instead of a long press is hard to get used to. Swiftkey has a split keyboard option or a normal keyboard with the split having letters on either side and numbers in the middle plus it learns as you type and has a lot of customisation in themes, key height and width, long press duration.
.... I realise that sounds like a big ad but I promise you I'm as jobless as they come, just a fan of a good and usable keyboard. I have the phone version as well but I'm really liking the new HTC Sense 3.5 swipe enabled keyboard.
AndiTails said:
I like Thumb Keyboard - lots of styles and sizes to choose from.
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+1 for Thumb keyboard
Mainly use the half screen keyboard as it means I can hold the tablet with one hand and type with the other without having to reach back/forth across the tablet all the time.
A.I.Type choosing Windows Tablet 8 theme
payware but worth the coin
GO keyboard is really good and I think has the option to increase or decrease keyboard key sizes. Also it has themes!
Hope this helped!
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Multiling keyboard is quite handy especially if you need different layouts. Also, the keys are (both vertically and horizontally) sufficiently big.
Hacker's keyboard is just amazing on this device
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meehog said:
Anybody have any recommendations on a keyboard to use with Vegacomb? I like the big keys with the stock keyboard but it's not very customisable, i tried Smart keyboard pro but they keys are too small, and if I change the key height, all the letters are then misaligned with the keys.
I guess it's because of the different screen resolution, so does anybody know of any similar keyboards to smart keyboard with bigger keys?
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An alternative to changing the keyboard type is to use the one you like the layout on and change the DPI setting using DPI Changer or similar app. Curiously, the reduction of the DPI setting decreases the size of the icons, but increases the size of the keys on the keyboard (at least on HoneyIce Chimera Updated).
DO NOT try to set DPI settings to anything other than 120 and 160 on VegaICS!
Looking For Recommendations to replace the stock Asus keyboard
Thumb Keyboard is the best!
3 different modes
Very customizable
Awesome prediction/error correction
Built-in arrow keys / numeric keypad
I love smart keyboard pro. Its awesome on my phone and prime. I cannot stand stock plus it has various themes and u can calibrate it nicely to ur touch
Nvidia always!
Thumb Keyboard is the best!
keitht said:
Thumb Keyboard is the best!
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Thumb keyboard all the way....
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Thumb kb ftw!
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I always used Swiftkey X on my phone. I will also try the tablet version. And thanks for the recommendation for Thumb keyboard, I will try it, too.
thumb keyboard for me too
Ive tried thumb keyboard, A.I. Type, and now SwiftkeyX
Thumb Keyboard - was ok, but I kept hitting the bottom dock bar when trying to hit space, also seemed to freeze up sometimes. Not sure that isn't a Android3.1 issue.
A.I. Type - long press vs shift was messing me up. You don't long press for the icon in top corner, you press shift. Creature of habit...
SwiftkeyX - So far so good, very similar to the one on my phone. 4 themes which look cleaner than the other keyboard IMO.
I will possibly use the ICS keyboard once it is released, heres to hoping they implement a split keyboard option.
Thumb keyboard is cool but as previously said, kept hitting notification instead of space.
currently I'm using SlideIt and I'm liking it.
The whole split keyboard is very nice If your always/most of the time typing with two hands, but I kept finding myself laying down, holding tab in one hand and typing with the other. In this senerio I think the split keyboard makes things harder. At the moment I like slideit, going to try tablet swift key...
Alex1x said:
Thumb keyboard is cool but as previously said, kept hitting notification instead of space.
currently I'm using SlideIt and I'm liking it.
The whole split keyboard is very nice If your always/most of the time typing with two hands, but I kept finding myself laying down, holding tab in one hand and typing with the other. In this senerio I think the split keyboard makes things harder. At the moment I like slideit, going to try tablet swift key...
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Sounds like thumb keyboard isn't for you anyways, but there is a toggle on it to switch to a regular layout keyboard
Thumb keyboard for me as well. I also have hitting the dock problem but am slowly getting use to it and not making that mistake anymore. Split keyboard really is necessary IMO.
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You will get used to the space bar, I did that for a while too, hit the notification bar, you will adjust on no time
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Alex1x said:
Thumb keyboard is cool but as previously said, kept hitting notification instead of space.
currently I'm using SlideIt and I'm liking it.
The whole split keyboard is very nice If your always/most of the time typing with two hands, but I kept finding myself laying down, holding tab in one hand and typing with the other. In this senerio I think the split keyboard makes things harder. At the moment I like slideit, going to try tablet swift key...
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I don't think you gave Thumb KB a chance or you did not explore all of the features. If you are holding the tablet in landscape you have the split KB for thumb typing. If you lay it down, with the press of one button, it is a full KB which can be customized as well.
http://www.swype.com/
Alex1x said:
Thumb keyboard is cool but as previously said, kept hitting notification instead of space.
currently I'm using SlideIt and I'm liking it.
The whole split keyboard is very nice If your always/most of the time typing with two hands, but I kept finding myself laying down, holding tab in one hand and typing with the other. In this senerio I think the split keyboard makes things harder. At the moment I like slideit, going to try tablet swift key...
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Actually in landscape mode, Thumb Keyboard has a mode exactly for you. You can slide the whole keyboard to one side, so you hold the tablet on one side and type on the other. I just found this out and love this keyboard even more! And swapping is just a single toggle key on the keyboard.
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Any good free ones? Non swype.. I got horribly annoyed with just the keyboard tracing before I figured out how to turn it off. Screen too large to swype!
After this thread, I decided to give Thumb KB android try... well, I have to say I've changed my mind and liking this over slideit alot more Thanks guys lol
Now my next venture:
Thumb KB vs SwiftKey X Tablet version
Alex1x said:
Thumb keyboard is cool but as previously said, kept hitting notification instead of space.
currently I'm using SlideIt and I'm liking it.
The whole split keyboard is very nice If your always/most of the time typing with two hands, but I kept finding myself laying down, holding tab in one hand and typing with the other. In this senerio I think the split keyboard makes things harder. At the moment I like slideit, going to try tablet swift key...
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thumb keyboard has various keyboard layouts that you can switch on the fly, and one of them moves the keyboard to one side which should make typing the way you describe easier.
the buttons are in b/t the space bars to change layouts.
also, the keyboard can be tweaked a bit to help with hitting the notification bars, i did that a lot too, but you generally adjust your muscle memory over time. to be fair, i hit the notification bar with most split keyboards until i got used to it just because they're generally close to each other.
Using the SwiftKey Tablet trial at the moment, liking it because I'm used to SwiftkeyX on my phone. May switch over to thumbkeyboard at some point, but the lack of a trial to see how well it fits me is holding me back.
I installed the pad addon for go keyboard yesterday. I like it very much, because it makes typing in landscape screen orentation much more comfortable. It's free and really worth giving it a shot!
-gostl
I like it, thanks for sharing. ...but im not leaving swype.
What they should have done was go the XT9 keyboard route and provide a toggle to switch between directional pad and keyboard rather than display both at the same time. Displaying both makes the keys smaller than Swype.
Can someone recommend a good keypad for the Tab S,I find the Samsung keypad to small.i installed the Jellybean keypad which was a lot better but could not get the back key to work so I uninstalled it.anyone got any ideas.Thank You.Longlegs
Try SwiftKey Tablet on Playstore
Lo Xa thank you installed Swiftkey and its a lot better.Thanks Again.Longlegs
The best keyboard for tablet that I would recomend is, thumb kerboard. It has a lot of customizations - like key height, width, and spacing between the keys, keyboard height etc. So if you have time to tincker a bit, I think you'll like that the best
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I vote for TouchPal
I also vote touchpal.
Swiftkey for me on my 8.4 lagged horribly. Not to mention it was slow opening and closing. I actually think my review was removed because i said the same thing on the play store lol
TouchPal because:
1) delete word gesture (from backspace)
2) numbers by gesture (UP from upper row)
3) symbols by gesture (DOWN from lower row).
4) predictive text (works quite nicely for me)
5) sentence based prediction (for frequently used phrases)
6) quick access of speech input
7) quick change of input language
Cons:
It does lack the cut/paste gestures of swype
No uppercase Gesture (but usually you find uppercase in the suggestions)
No auto uppercase for "Du", "Ihr" etc (this is German specific and uppercase depends on the grammar)
I highly agree with the Thumb Keyboard recommendation. I got Thumb Keyboard 4 free from the Amazon Appstore awhile back and it's the best one for tablets. Especially if you're typing in landscape position. The letters are split into sections to the far left and right, and they have arrow keys and numbers in the middle. It's my Go-to Keyboard for any tablet.
Why would anyone vote for Touchpal X?
Since I bought my Tab S 10.5 I'm still evaluating which keyboard suits my needs best. I crossed Touchpal off the list very quickly as it doesnt support landscape mode typing: srsly there is no split option available?!
Swiftkey does many things very well, but the two things I noticed are: I got only two predictions shown in total in thumb mode and there is still to date no chinese language support. Although my wife is using her IPad Air most of the time, it's still nice to have Chinese input available without having to switch to another keyboard. Otherwise the typing experience is lightning fast. Although this might be because I used Swiftkey on mg GS3 for the last two years.
Kii Keyboard fits nearly all of my needs. It just got one very big minus: the suggested word is in the middle of the screen and unreachable for any fingers without breaking them.
I guess my search will continue some more.
I assume some of you got the 8.4 version and don't require smooth thumb handling in landscape mode. 10.5 users may shine some light upon my troubles.
you are right, it does depend on the form factor. I have the 8.4 tab and I do type mainly in portrait orientation. I do gesture based input at almost same speed as on a full size physical keyboard. Probably 50% times faster than finger typing on the touchscreen (in landscape) and 2 times faster than thumb typing. So I don't really need a (split) thumb typing mode.
With swifkey you can change the form factor depending the orientation !
ie : normal in portrait, split in 2 in landscape
You can also make it floating, which is very useful
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you are right, it does depend on the form factor. I have the 8.4 tab and I do type mainly in portrait orientation. I do gesture based input at almost same speed as on a full size physical keyboard. Probably 50% times faster than finger typing on the touchscreen (in landscape) and 2 times faster than thumb typing. So I don't really need a (split) thumb typing mode.
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The question 'What's the best keyboard app to use?' isn't as easily answered as it may look like at first glance. Nothing tops a physical keyboard, that's for sure. But with the right app we might come close enough.
Whoever answers this question should also state his preferences and device usage style.
I like Thumb Keyboard because you can custom assign the top row of buttons to various handy functions such as copy, paste, smiley face, etc.
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For now I will stick yet again to Swiftkey. I tried most if not all present keyboard apps and Swiftkey suits my typing habits in landscape mode best. Although it's far from perfect. Compared to all other apps it has no major drawback except maybe for some missing languages.
Could anyone host orginal samsung keyboard ?
I have an strange issue. Can resize stock keyboard , and can't make it undock.
Icon of those are disappeared :-\
Geilerzucker said:
Nothing tops a physical keyboard, that's for sure.
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Unfortunately the experience with physical keyboard is quite restricted in Android. I am using it with an Apple Wireless Keyboard. It is fully functional with shortcuts and special keys.
I was using it in conjuction with a BT Mouse.
But android UI isn't build for mouse control andf you don't really get a cursor, true cut-n-paste, or full undo. And, no gestures (using GMD gesture control).
So finger based navigation is much quicker than mouse.
Also you do waste time changing from input to navigation (true for both, mouse and touch based).
Overall, I am quicker with touch based navigation+swyping, than with a physical keyboard.
I also tried wireless touchpad, but that's even worse.
I want to type in the small screen to write in the big screen, but I want to use another keyboard (like Hackers Keyboard) instead of LG keyboard. Because I want arrow keys, CTRL key... Is it possible?
I think this phone would hace more productivity if that was possible.
Similarly. I use SwiftKey for most of my texting and everything in portrait mode. When I Wing the phone out I generally switch to the LG keyboard prior to opening the second screen. It's not as good for word prediction and everything but it allows you to move it between the upper and lower screens. I don't know of any other keyboard yet that has that feature besides the stock LG keyboard. Pretty easy to do. There's a little keyboard icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. Click on that that will allow you to switch between keyboards.
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Similarly. I use SwiftKey for most of my texting and everything in portrait mode. When I Wing the phone out I generally switch to the LG keyboard prior to opening the second screen. It's not as good for word prediction and everything but it allows you to move it between the upper and lower screens. I don't know of any other keyboard yet that has that feature besides the stock LG keyboard. Pretty easy to do. There's a little keyboard icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. Click on that that will allow you to switch between keyboards.
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I would like LG to add more symbols in its keyboard, mainly: arrow (cursor) keys, CTRL, ALT. These keys are perfect to edit text. I would like to communicate this matter to you so that you can make the keyboard more complete. It would be easy for them.
diejuse said:
I would like LG to add more symbols in its keyboard, mainly: arrow (cursor) keys, CTRL, ALT. These keys are perfect to edit text. I would like to communicate this matter to you so that you can make the keyboard more complete. It would be easy for them.
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A quick way to move your cursor is you long hold on the spacebar and then you can slide your finger left and right to move the cursor. It actually works pretty well. And I hate to admit it, but I think they stole that idea from Apple.
I didn't know that feature! Thanks! It's good but it' s not enough. I need more like a PC keyboard with arrow keys, CTRL and ALT keys for my purposes.
Any changes with the Android 11 update?
Goof app to have on the phone