I am also very interested in quick language switching. At the very least, it would be possible to make holding the search button down switch languages as you suggest in 2). This would save a lot of time switching languages, especially from Handcent, which seems to be slow at loading the settings dialog, where the input language setting is. That may even be something I could program myself, given an introduction to programming for Android.
The other changes you would be really good, but I imagine they would need to be hardcoded in the keyboard. Since the Sense keyboard has such good prediction, I would be reluctant to switch to another, and I doubt HTC will be quick to implement our suggestions. Maybe I'm wrong...? On Apr 21, 11:35 pm, Henrik <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got my HTC Desire with Android 2.1, and the first problem I'm > running into a lot is when using the visual keyboard. Being > multilingual and having friends who only speak one particular > language, there's no single 'correct' input language setting for the > word prediction feature, so I started looking into how much work it > might be to extend the keyboard with two rather basic, though > essential, features: > > 1) Showing the current language selection, so that I don't have to > type stuff, getting it mis-corrected, then discover the language > setting must be wrong, go into the settings, select to change > language, select language, etc... until I get back, erase the old text > and start over. That gets old real quick.. > > 2) Being able to simple change whatever language is used for the word > prediction by just having a button on the keyboard doing that > directly, i.e. a button that just cycles through the 'relevant' > languages with the key label showing which is currently active. > > Improving it even further, one might imagine: > > 3) Having a per contact setting, noting the word-prediction language > that should be used when communicating with that user. > > But searching through the docs, I'm slowly coming to the realization > that the input text language setting may not even be available to be > changed outside the system settings dialog, making this impossible to > implement - is that correct? > > Regards, > Henrik Gram > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
