TouchPal for evo

Spiderman313 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-22-2010, 09:45 AM

I was a former WM user and my touch keyboard of choice was TouchPal. It has better prediction than the htc keyboard, is bigger, and has extra swiping shortcuts to make typing a breeze. Watch a video on youtube to see all of the shortcuts. You easily switch from qwerty, compact qwerty (my favorite), and numeric pad layout by swiping from left to right. Do a search in the market for touchpal and it will bring up the chinese version. Download it, go into settings > keyboard and languages and select (select checkbox) chinese touchpal. The next time you have a box to type in long hold and select change input method and select chinese touchpal. When you open the keyboard you have to hit the little sprocket wheel in the bottom left corner to change the language to english. Enjoy!!

**orangekid** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-22-2010, 09:56 AM

Moved to Android Apps & Games

reprod · #3 (**permalink**) 06-22-2010, 10:02 AM

I used it for a while starting June 5th but it just doesnt seem as fast or feature rich as its WM counterpart. Little things like swiping up and across to get a single capital letter don't work anymore. One of the best features from its WM counterpart was being able to change the size of the keyboard on the fly. My guess is that Android doesnt support it so they were able to do it...

Still, I put this down as one of the best keyboards period. I just wish they would rename it so as not to confuse users. Needless to say I found myself back on the HTC keyboard just for the sake of speed. Strange but true...

**aznmode** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-22-2010, 01:48 PM

Ya I'm a bit disappointed with Touchpal for Android. Loved it on my TP and TP2. I also requested they add a voice button but they just said not anytime soon. Kinda blows but time to move on...

**aznmode** · #5 (**permalink**) 06-22-2010, 02:27 PM

This is what I use now and like it so far over touchpal. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416

It's an modified HTC keyboard. There are several swipe gestures also (swipe UP, Down, Left, Right, etc) that you can customize. For example I use swipe left to delete a word. Swipe down to close the keyboard. Swipe Up to emulate shift key.

**guitardoc64** · #6 (**permalink**) 06-23-2010, 09:24 AM

I used TouchPal exclusively with WM. I got it on my Hero and will be trying it out over the next weeks. I like it better than the stock Android kbd, but really the stock isn't that bad. I do see that on Android, it's a lot slower.

Omegakai · #7 (**permalink**) 06-23-2010, 08:56 PM

guys you know theres a touch pal for android that if not par better for the htc evo it may apper to be in chinse but you can switch the language for it and its on the market in my opinion its better because its adapts to you alot better then the one on the touch pro 2

Spiderman313 · #8 (**permalink**) 06-26-2010, 08:46 PM

I explained that in the first post.

Sent from my Evo

diomark · #9 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 02:53 PM

That rocked on wm - but try swype if you haven't already - if you can touch type and know where your keys are, then its very fast on android.

Sent from my EVO