Questions tagged [text-input]
'Text-input' refers to the methods used on Android to enter text, which includes keyboard input as well as voice input.
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How do I turn off the blinking cursor in text entry boxes?
In text entry boxes on Android, there is a vertical line, called a caret or cursor, which marks the point where text is inserted when I type on the on-screen keyboard. But the default configuration ...
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How to open keyboard in Wine app?
I would like to use Notepad++ on Android, if possible. The only thing I found was this app, which, unlike the regular Wine, seems to emulate an entire Windows system. The only problem: I can't enter ...
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How do you input inverted form field controls?
I'm referring to the Windows OS equivalent of, e.g., Shift + Tab, etc.
At first I wanted to find out how to do so on the keyboard I use (refer to my other post), but I realized after some testing and ...
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I want to add a blank space character neither by copy pasting from Arabic fonts nor by doing what a spacebar does
I have read many answers containing copy-pasting from a [ ] or by doing ALT+255 which just do a spacebar thing. The reason I want it by some other means being viz.
The copy paste characters are ...
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adb shell input text ignore characters
In android emulator adb shell I send the following command:
input text \!\$\#\?\%shelllllllooo
And result:
All same characters(exclude special like !?#$) been ignored.
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LineageOS multi language spell check
I'm running LineageOS on my Fairphone 2. I want to use German and English spell check, but only use the German keyboard layout.
Is it possible to have multiple languages for spell check with using ...
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How to paste text between existing words?
When writing on Android, such as YouTube comments, I sometimes need to change word orders or paste words. Cutting an existing word is easy: just long press the word and then select "Cut". But I have ...
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Paste YYYYMMDDHHMMSS timestamp anywhere (hotkey shortcut)
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS or YmdHis in PHP is the timestamp format used by Wayback Machine URL and the %A_Now variable in AutoHotKey.
It looks like this: 20171223145921.
How can I paste the timestamp of the ...
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Can i disable spellchecker popup but keep the red underline?
The red underline on misspelled words is excellent, but the popup is awful.
This is the popup I do not want:
My keyboard app has a much better suggestion list, always. I think because it learns my ...
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Why does this text cause android devices to 'hang'?
I received this innocent looking forward from my brother on Whatsapp claiming that it could 'hang' my phone.
And sure enough... touching it would make my android samsung j2 running android 6 freeze ...
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How to input punctuation via Google Assistant?
Lately I've become a fan of using Google Assistant to dictate text messages. This works well for hands-free texting; however, I haven't been able to figure out if it's possible to insert punctuation ...
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Is there a way to disable the right-to-left-stroke-to-delete-gesture in Google handwriting input?
I couldn’t find any option in settings to disable the right-to-left-stroke-to-delete-gesture in Google (Japanese) handwriting input. Is there a way to do that?
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Opening text file from Android SD in Windows
I'm having some trouble recovering text files from an old broken cell phone from 2013.
How can such files be opened from an Android Micro SD in Windows?
Those files have an unidentified format, ...
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How to disable text correction suggestions (underlined) with Google Voice typing?
When I use Google Voice typing to produce some text, a fair amount of the text becomes underlined (and if you tap the underlined text a drop-down list presents suggestions to correct any errors in the ...
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Text expansion when writing email (Gmail, etc.)
On desktop PC, there are great apps / Chrome addons such as Gorgias that allows to write abc <TAB> and this will be automatically expanded into a long text, thus saving many keypresses.
On ...
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Stop cursor from moving to end of word when touching text
The default android behaviour when interacting with editable text seems to be to move the cursor to the end of the word you've touched, regardless of your touch location.
This is undesirable in many ...
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Typing issue with AOSP
Sometimes, when typing, the AOSP keyboard misbehave very badly.
The characters may not appear, may the cursor move forward without placing a single character(if typed in between text).
When ...
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Why are some emoji not displayed?
I am wondering, on what does it depend which emoji are available on which system? I was using an emoji from the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs code page and it displays on OSX, but not on ...
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Prevent spelling suggestions from being inserted in text messages
In text messaging, I noticed that whenever I try to enter a word different from the spelling suggestions, the latter prevail and my intention is ignored. Is there a way to get around this?
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Input field text is white on white in some apps on OnePlus One
After upgrading to Android 6 on an unrooted OnePlus One, some apps (eg. Aqua Mail, aCalendar) have their input fields nearly white text on white background.
How can I change the color?
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Auto completion dictionary won't remember words
I dated a girl named Kristi for over a year, and to this day, no matter how many times I type her name correctly, it will autocorrect to Kristen. A year. A full year.
How do I get android to ...
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How can blind users enter (keyboard) characters without resorting to a braille I/O device?
If I am unable to use my eyesight¹ and also unable to use my mouth², then how can I comfortably enter characters into my device using only one free hand?
Suppose TalkBack is enabled. Is there ...
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How do you input Cantonese characters in Android?
I am able to use handwriting to input Chinese characters.
However, I would like to input Cantonese characters
(which are slightly different from Chinese characters).
How do I do this?
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How do certain apps record everything we type in android?
Certain apps like Type Machine claim to be able to record everything you type. You have to install it and activate it from the device's accessibility settings, then it can somehow record typed text.
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How to add a new word to keyboard by backspacing and clicking on its suggestion?
It used to be that if I were to type a new word, like Androidenthusiast, it would suggest other words. I wouldn't select any, press space, backspace, and then it was there as a suggestion. If I ...
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Install keyboard on Android Wear
I've got an Android wear device.(the LG G Watch) And I installed some APK apps via ADB. How can I install a keyboard on Android Wear that I can use in apps I installed with ADB? I tried plugging in a ...
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Where's the auto-replace function of the keyboard
I've looked in the whole parameters of my Nexus 5 (Lollipop 5.1) and I can't find the way to customize the auto-replace function.
What I want to do is simple, I want some abbreviation like asap to be ...
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Voice to text punctuation and new line in Spanish andorid 5
Does Android 5 recognize punctuation and new lines in Spanish voice-to-text?
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Typing in Web Browser (Firefox and Chrome) Text Boxes and Text Areas on Android is Awkward
There are several sites which have web browser text areas which you can type stuff in. When these sites are visited with Firefox or Chrome, and you want to enter more than 3 lines of text (for ...
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Htc Desire 820 - 'eh' word replaced by 'V'
Texting, whatsapp, url of browser, dictionary app or anywhere in the phone, the combination of letters 'eh' when occurred is always replaced with the letter 'V'.
please help. Not sure why this is ...
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Stop splitting words for non-English languages
How can one stop Android's autocorrect from adding spaces to split compound words? This is terrible behaviour for many non-English languages.
Short story long: The default behaviour of the Android ...
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Can't change input language for Samsung Note 2 keyboard after a software update
I have been experiencing this problem for a while now. My keyboard is not working properly: usually I have input languages in Korean and Japanese and English, and I can just slide the space bar and ...
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Unicode input from a Bluetooth/external keyboard?
Is there a way that I can do Unicode character input on an external keyboard on Android 4.4?
For example, on Linux, you hold Ctrl+Shift+U and then start inputting the code point. On Windows and OSX, ...
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Inputting Japanese characters?
I am not a Japanese speaker, but I know a few words, mostly Pokémon names... In fact, in many cases the Japanese name will pop up in my head before the English one.
But I want to be able to type アブソル ...
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How do I stop floating the number keypad on Galaxy Note 8.0?
My Galaxy Note 8 displays a floating numeric keyboard when the inputType is number. How do I make it stop floating? It doesn't happen for other inputTypes, just this one. There's no option to change ...
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3x4 keypad only types numbers even when in the letter mode is shown
I hope anybody can help me out. Any tips would be very much appreciated!
I changed the keyboard input mode from qwerty to 3x4, as I can't manage the small buttons of qwerty. I realize the 3x4 has a ...
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Compose key on external blutooth-connected keyboard
I have a Reudo RBK-3000BT VER 1.0 keyboard connected by Bluetooth to an Android 4.2.2 phone.
Can I use a compose key feature with such a keyboard?
For instance I would type CAPSLOCK+^+o and it would ...
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Larger edit area for SMS writing?
The Handcent app has a feature where with a click of a button I can switch to a larger edit area. This allowed me to preview my messages in whole before sending them off and edit them comfortably.
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Digital/Physical keyboard not sending input on occasion
Motorola Droid 3
Android verison: 2.3.4
System version: 5.7.906
System update report: "Your device is up to date! No update is necessary at this time."
Phone's age: 1 year
After unlocking my screen ...
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How can I emulate ctrl-Z (undo) in Android 4.1.2 on a Galaxy Note 3?
Based on this question and this question and this issue, it sounds like Android basically doesn't have undo/redo functionality. (I guess? Correct me if I've misunderstood or if the situation has ...
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How to cut and paste on Sony XPeria Z1?
Assuming a healthy phone, what is the normal procedure for cutting and pasting from editable text fields on Android?
On my iPhone this pops up after selecting text, but I cannot even select the text ...
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Keyboard punctuation
I just updated my phone (Galaxy S3) and I don't like the new way auto prediction works, it keeps trying to predict the next word instead of giving me quick access to the punctuation. Does any one know ...
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Keypad not working very often
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S i9003
Android: 2.3.6 (Gingerbread)
All of a sudden, the keypad stops working and after sometime it works just fine. When I try to type, I get the tapping sound. Letters pop-up,...
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Textexpander for android
I'm on a Mac and iPhone. Going to switch to Android and Windows.
Textexpander is an app that is "expanding custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text". In other words: a text expansion tool....
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Disabling predictive text for just a single language
I am using three languages on my phone - English, Dutch and Lithuanian and predictive text on the English and the Dutch languages are all OK. What I am trying to achieve is to switch off predictive ...
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Prevent switching keyboard layout when pressing Shift+Space on an external keyboard
When I use a Galaxy Note together with an Apple Wireless Keyboard, pressing Shift+Space switches keyboard layout. This is really annoying. Is it possible to disable it?
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Text not being underlined in internet app on S4
I have an issue with my S4 browser:
Open Google site using the default Internet app (not Chrome)
Enable predictive text, input about 8 dots and then add some following characters
Notice that ...
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Cannot configure keyboard input language anymore
On my Xperia S /ICS, I had English and German language input configured. Worked as expected, could switch language on the keyboard. Then I installed a keyboard app and later uninstalled it. Now ...
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Only types 1 letter at a time
My girlfriend just bought a New Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGS3), everything is good however, when she tries to type something into a field box on the internet, it only types one letter at a time Eg:
Signing ...
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Change behavior of space on external keyboard?
On my PC, I am using TouchCursor, so that I can control the text cursor using key combinations such as:
SPACE+I/J/K/L: up/left/down/right
SPACE+H/N: page up/down
That way, and when using a keyboard ...
