so when im using my prime without the dock, i use swiftkey. When i dock, i want it to switch to the asus/android keyboard. i can still type, but theres a few nitpicky things. Like if im typing a question on the phyiscal keyboard with swiftkey on, and i end with a question mark by hitting SHIFT ? on the keyboard, it capitalizes the first letter of the last word.
example:
Hey how's it Going?
so is there an easy way to have it switch input methods when i dock, or is there a way to just use swiftkey and not have it battle with the physical keyboard
I'm also very interested in this - have you worked out the best way to get around this yet?
There is a program in the market called keyboard manager that allows you to select which keyboard to use when the prime is docked, landscape and in portrait mode. However it needs root access.
You can press ctrl+shift on the dock keyboard, to change input method and ctrl+space to change language inside asus keyboard.
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For everyone's information: I just tried my gyration keyboard and it worked just fine - nice smaller keyboard. thought you all might like to know.
do you have a link to a product page?
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those cost WAY too much for my blood
I can't get mine to work under VEGAn-Tab... what ROM are you running?
I have tried to get the gingerbread and swiftkey keyboards to work, but for whatever reason am not able to turn off the TnT keyboard.
hogasswild said:
I have tried to get the gingerbread and swiftkey keyboards to work, but for whatever reason am not able to turn off the TnT keyboard.
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Are you switching on the swiftkey (or alternative) keyboard under settings --> Language & keyboard? Then, when you get ready to type in any field (you'll still see the default keyboard), do a long press with your finger until you see a pop up that says Input method. Select input method and then you get another pop up that allows you to select the keyboard of your choice. Select your alternative keyboard and it will then appear for you.
I was using TNT lite 2.2 - I just plugged in the usb transceiver and it worked. I had it from a splurge earlier and used it with presentations - if the dongle were smaller it would be very useful.
So I recently bought the keyboard for my prime. I love it, but you have to set the IME to the stock android or the asus keyboard for it to work well. Neither of those have a split keyboard so when I take the keyboard dock off and just use the tablet I have to go manually switch IME keyboards to a split keyboard (thumb keyboard).
It would be awesome if someone could make an app for the TP that would set the keyboard depending on if it were docked or not would be awesome.
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I too use Thumb Keyboard but it doesn't seem to affect it when I dock my prime. The icon in the tray with the 2 lines, down arrow and wide U shows up when I dock and the keyboard functions normally. When I undock, my last used IME is there (in this case, Thumb Keyboard). I just assumed it auto-switched the IME when you docked it.
What you are looking for exists already App called keyboard manager. Must have app for this thing if you have the dock.
Haro912 said:
What you are looking for exists already App called keyboard manager. Must have app for this thing if you have the dock.
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Agreed. It just works.
Cool, thanks, that was what I searched for.
FYI all SwiftKey X tablet version works great with the dock hardware keyboard.
I think every on-screen keyboard will work with the dock as long as you are using a stalwart englisg QWERTY layout. The problems begin when you are using a qwertz layout with spezial letters like ä, ü, ö and ß and a non standart on-screen keyboard like thumb keyboard or swift keyand connect your dock.
the problem with most non-asus keyboards is not the 'normal' keys. Most will work using the dock. The problem starts when you want to use other keys like shift, alt en capslock. That's why some sort of automatic switching needs to be done when the dock is connected or disconnected. I've found an app for the original transformer that does exactly this but it doesn't seem to work so well for the transformer prime.
Hello everyone, my rooted nook tablet is acting up and I am not sure how to fix it. I was using the the stock android keyboard and I switched to the hacker one just to see what it was like. Now it seems as if both keyboards are active but I am not sure to disable it. Any ideas?
What are the keyboards actually doing? Did you move the hacker keyboard app to the /system/app folder to get access to it?
I didn't move anything to the /system/app folder, all I did was push the keyboard setting button on the keyboard to switch from android to hackers.
Also for example if I hit backspace on the android keyboard, the P key gets hit instead because that is where the backspace is on the hacker keyboard.
Take a look at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528380
It's the work around for installing alternative keyboards. On the stock rom, I used that method to use Hacker, GO keyboard, Swype, and Swiftkey.
When I plug the tablet to the dock I see this popup where or how do I set this?
I use thumb keyboard which I've set to my default input device (when not docked) in Settings/Language & Input. When I first got my dock and docked the Prime it said that. I went into Language & Input and set the default input to the Asus keyboard thinking that the dock would not work properly. After getting frustrated using the Asus touchscreen keyboard I changed my default back to Thumb keyboard. Ever since I did that I've never seen that message again.
Swiftkey has a nice layout feature for phones - in landscape mode, you have the option to split the keyboard with arrow keys in the middle.
I have purchased Swiftkey, and now want to use it on my tablet in that same mode but the developers have frustratingly put in a block that if a tablet is detected, that one option is disabled. Messages come up urging you to buy the tablet version, but even the tablet version does not have that layout option like I would like to have.
Soooooooo, it there a way to hack something to make Swiftkey think it is installed on a phone, to enable that layout option?