Hi, from there web site, I didn't necessarily get this impression. It was talking about developers having access to their SDK, and using fleksy as the keyboard in their individual apps. This to me, sounds a little different than a universal default keyboard. Anyone correct me if I'm reading that wrong?
Thanks. Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 11, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Chris H <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, there is rumour going around that Fleksy will be one of the firt > keyboards to be used in iOS 7. Check out their site for more details. > > > Chris > > On 11/06/2013 05:57, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> After looking at the new features of IOS 7, a few things are missing that I >> was hoping Apple might have considered. Perhaps some of these are there and >> were just not mentioned, or these could be things Apple will never include >> because of the experience they want to provide. I will list what I think is >> missing and state why I think they are good features to include. Of course, >> this is just my opinion, these may not matter to some people and that's fine. >> No built in file management. Just about every other operating system, >> whether mobile or desktop provides a way to browse the files and folders on >> your device and change them. IOS 7 still has no built in file manager, and >> no support for USB mass storage or media transfer protocol. I think there is >> an app you can get that helps with some of this, and the air drop may make >> this a bit easier, but still transferring content from a computer to an IOS >> device is more difficult than it needs to be. With Android for example, many >> devices support mass storage, and those that do not have a memory card slot >> support media transfer protocol, or you can install an app that lets the >> device show up on your network like any other drive. >> No option to change default apps. As far as I know, there is no way to >> change what app will be the default when doing things like clicking links or >> opening files in other applications. For example, you can install other >> browsers, but you cannot set them as the default. On operating systems such >> as android and the mac, this can easily be changed. >> Apple does not allow you to change the default keyboard used for typing. >> While you can install other keyboards such as fleksy, you must go in to the >> application and type what you want, then choose to send a text message, send >> email, or copy the text to paste in another program. In Android for example, >> you can install and set other keyboards as the default. I'm currently beta >> testing fleksy for android, and if I set it as the default, I can use it to >> type in any application. You can also dictate within fleksy for android if >> you wish since any keyboard has access to android's voice recognition >> service. >> I was also hoping Apple would have opened up the way text to speech is >> handled, but this does not appear to be the case. It's good that they added >> a male voice, probably Tom. However, the same restrictions still apply as >> far as I know. First, developers are not permitted to use the voices that >> IOS already has. This means that if an application wants to provide text to >> speech, aside from voiceover, the application must license and include its >> own TTS engine. So, for example, let's say you have the read to go app, the >> motion x GPS app and the blindsquare app installed. You would most likely >> have 3 copies of the same Acapela TTS on your device, taking at least an >> extra 100 MB on your device. If Apple allowed developers to use the built in >> voices, this would not be necessary. Similarly, Apple does not allow you to >> install new system wide voices. Speech is very subjective, but if you wanted >> to use Acapela for example with voiceover, this is not possible because of >> Apple's restrictions. > With operating systems like the mac and Android, any application is free to > use the voices provided, and you can install third party TTS engines such as > Acapela and Ivona, and they are available for screen readers, or any other > application that wants to use them. To be required to have more than one copy > of a voice on a device is a waste of space, especially when it offers no > benefit to the user. >> IOS is certainly very accessible, but I am a bit disappointed that Apple has >> not opened things up a bit for developers and provided access to file >> management. I'm not saying Android is perfect, it isn't, but it does include >> some major things that I think the newest version of IOS is still lacking. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
