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Slide Keyboard is a virtual keyboard with keys 4 times bigger than the standard android keyboard.
The purpose of this software was to designed a keyboard which prevents typing errors caused by small size of the standard keyboard keys.

In order to have bigger keys, each key contains 5 characters.
You just have to touch a key and swipe your finger in the direction of the letter you want to write.

Installation

After downloading Slide Keyboard from Android market, you have to do select it in Settings AND Input method menus.

1. You must select it in settings (Locale & text settings for android 1.6, and Language & keyboard settings for android 2.0 or newer versions) :

Select Slide Keyboard and voila, it should automatically appears each time you want to type a text !!!

Several keyboards

The standard style provides only 2 rows of buttons which allows to give more space to the part of the screen being edited.

The computer style provides 3 rows of buttons and has a layout similar to keyboards available on computers.

When the phone is oriented vertically, you can access to 2 different keyboards.
You can switch between the different keyboards by choosing the "ABC" and "SYM" keys on the bottom right corner. The "ABC" keyboard provides 4 different modes : alphabetic, qwerty, azerty, dvorak. You can change the current mode in the settings. Here are screenshots of those keyboards :

The horizontal view displays two more keys than the vertical one, therefore the main keyboard contains alphabetic and numeric characters which simplify the writing of text with numbers.

Horizontal alphabetic keyboard

Horizontal numeric/symbols keyboard

Quick switch

Quick switch is a functionality which allows to switch between the two keyboards by pressing the action button of your phone. A simple click will switch the keyboard and reverse it automatically after a letter has been typed, a double click will switch the keyboard permanently. When you are in temporary keyboard switch, the background will be displayed in blue as you can see :

Quick switch coloration

Popup keyboards

If you want to type special characters (like an accentuate character), all you have to do is to swipe your finger in the direction of the corresponding standard character and keep the key pressed until the mini keyboard appears :

Mini keyboard for special characters

Word suggestion

Slide Keyboard contains multiple dictionaries in order to display suggested words while you are typing. Languages currently supported are english, french, german, spanish, italian. New languages will be added in the future. YOU MUST DOWNLOAD LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES FROM THE MARKET IN ORDER TO USE THIS FEATURE.
When Slide Keyboard detects that a word is not present in the dictionary, it automatically adds this new word to the user dictionary. User dictionary words are displayed in red in the list of suggested words :

Word suggestion

You can delete user dictionary words by doing a long press on the word. The following dialog will appear :

Word candidates

Gesture shortcuts (for Android 1.6 or newer versions)

Here is the list of gestures you can do on the keyboard :

Delete a letter

Insert a space

Go to the next line (except when writing text messages)

Change to upper case

Write a left parenthesis

Write a right parenthesis

Toolbar

You can access to the toolbar by clicking on the handler displayed below the keyboard.

The main utility of the toolbar is to give you a quick way to edit your text. You can cut, copy, paste and select your text easily by clicking directly on the buttons which is a lot more quicker than using the contextual menu. If you don't want to display the toolbar just deactive it in the settings.New features will be added to the toolbar in the future.

Slide Keyboard

Installation

Several keyboards

Quick switch

Popup keyboards

Word suggestion

Gesture shortcuts (for Android 1.6 or newer versions)

Toolbar

Settings

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