Does this new twiz have an option to use the 'old' 4 icons down in the dock or did apple scare them into making 5 the standard and unchangeable norm?
Its like the ICS launcher... its changeable
Keep it Classy, Cali.
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I am bored so I did a search in appbrain for keyboards. I saw some new ones and old ones I had forgotten about. I downloaded a few that looked interesting and tested away. I finally narrowed it down to a keyboard that looks like aosp and in landscape, it seems lightning fast! It's called dr.ben0x keyboard. It's free. I did some tests and the reasons I like it are because it's not the blinding white like the touch input stock one, in landscape I can type faster with the onscreen keyboard than the physical one (believe it or not), the suggested words are just above the keyboard and not floating (which many times gets in the way of seeing what I'm typing). That's another complaint I have with the stock touch input kb.
Yeah, it's not as small as the 70k something that the htc one is but at 660k, it's smaller than just about all the other aftermarket keyboards out there. It doesn't seem to get in my way when typing. The keys are larger in landscape. I was wanting the motorola multitouch keyboard so bad but couldn't install it yet without full root and a crowbar. This in landscape is fast enough I think to give motorola's keyboard a run for it's money. Like I said, this looks very much like an asop keyboard, colors as well. Carpel tunnel syndrom, here I come!
With this resolution, what should dock icons be sized at with the atrix's resolution?
I just tried applying a few Simple Text icons to my Launcher Pro dock and they were way too small for me to use.
Ok I just made a dock that was 640x100 that seems to fit pretty well.
Icons I guess are 128x100 or something of that nature.
Now if only I could find some high-res dock icons that will automatically resize...
Another edit: I've been toying with the dock some more and up to 640x140, i still feel like it could be higher.
Yet another edit: Im not exactly sure where, but sometime after 640x140, it pretty much stopped making any difference. I've got it at 170 now, keeping it that way i guess.
I'm somewhat new to Android, but it looks to me like which keyboard you use is an option (Samsung, Swype) and that more can potentially be added on.
The only problem I have with Samsung's is that it's clearly designed for devices with smaller screens, and takes up a MASSIVE amount of space in landscape mode. Are there any good alternatives that anyone uses?
I got Swiftkey X when it was 10c in the market sale and it is excellent on the 5 inch screen.
I was going to look at Thumb Keyboard from Beansoft since it has a custom keyboard for the 5" screen. Anyone using that one?
Mrktmind said:
I was going to look at Thumb Keyboard from Beansoft since it has a custom keyboard for the 5" screen. Anyone using that one?
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yes, i've used. I've got it for free from amazon store (free app a day). It's perfect for 5'' screen
I recommend A.I.type
A.I.type is accurate, fully customizable and has the best text prediction in the Market.
You can't beat Swype from my perspective. Just so much faster than traditional typing.
SmartKeyboard Pro.
Is there any real multitasking dock like the one iOs has? I'm currently using the Chinese iOs rom and the dock looks pretty awesome but the problem is that everything apart from the dock becomes all yellowish and distorted... Not very nice...
jleonnn said:
Is there any real multitasking dock like the one iOs has? I'm currently using the Chinese iOs rom and the dock looks pretty awesome but the problem is that everything apart from the dock becomes all yellowish and distorted... Not very nice...
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download "Espier launcher" it has that dock and looks like ios too
So I GEDified my UK wifi Xoom yesterday and now have JB (4.1.1) on both my Nexus7 and Xoom.
Interestingly the Xoom doesn't have the dock locked to the side like the N7. In fact it doesn't have a dock. I like the dock on the N7 though, especially with Nova launcher (which turns the icons in landscape mode).
So I got Nova for the Xoom and it gives it a dock. Nice. And if you rotate it to landscape mode it rotates the dock down to the bottom, which doesn't happen on the N7. I guess JB knows it's on a larger tablet and so doesn't lock the dock to the side.
Just thought people should know.
Subjective Effect said:
So I GEDified my UK wifi Xoom yesterday and now have JB (4.1.1) on both my Nexus7 and Xoom.
Interestingly the Xoom doesn't have the dock locked to the side like the N7. In fact it doesn't have a dock. I like the dock on the N7 though, especially with Nova launcher (which turns the icons in landscape mode).
So I got Nova for the Xoom and it gives it a dock. Nice. And if you rotate it to landscape mode it rotates the dock down to the bottom, which doesn't happen on the N7. I guess JB knows it's on a larger tablet and so doesn't lock the dock to the side.
Just thought people should know.
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The Nexus7 is running in "phablet" layout. It still has the stats bar and on screen keys separated and yet has apps in the tablet layout.
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