What is Slydr ?
Slydr is a Windows Phone application that implements a custom keyboard matching the layout similar to the default Windows Phone keyboard(s). It cannot replace standard keyboard becuase microsoft does not allow that. Slydr allows you to input text by Sliding Over the letters of keyboard. It also supports predictive typing like the default keyboard.
Microsoft does not allow 3rd party keyboard at this point. The app for that reason uses accessible APIs to expose functionality. I appreciate your desire for greater integration. I will keep updating the app as APIs change.
- Next word prediction – based on last word, show users a list of possible words based on spoken language patterns
- Make it systemwide rather than in app only. This is not going to happen any time soon. Microsoft controls this and there is no public api for that.
- Favourite Contacts – shows most used contacts for sms and email options (user can choose ones not listed from main contacts list) – I have request an API change for sending SMS, once that is done, this will make sense.
- Predictive typing option as an alternative to sliding keyboard – will be useful for non supported languages.
- Automatic addition of user added non dictionary words (if the word you type in does not exist in dictionary, it will be added so it will be available next time).
- Automatic support for Swype like capitalization (if you swipe outside – top of the keyboard, it will automatically capitalise that word)
- Support for both Portrait and Landscape mode (full sized landscape keyboards – Version 3.0)
- Based on your swipe or based on individual key entry, the algorithm will automatically match words with accents
- Quick toggle between languages – Version 3.0
- Supported Languages (v3.x):
- Arabic (العربية) – Mango Version 3.x
- Bulgarian (Български)
- Catalan (Català)
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Croatian (Hrvatski)
- Czech (Český)
- Czech (Český) Alt
- Danish
- Dutch (Nederlands)
- Dutch (Belgium)
- English
- Estonian (Eesti)
- Spanish (Español)
- Farsi / Perian (فارسی) – Mango Version 3.x
- Finnish (Soumi)
- Français (France)
- Français (Canada)
- Français (Switzerland)
- German (Deutsch)
- Greek (Ελληνικά)
- Hebrew (עִבְרִית) – Mango Version 3.x
- Hungarian (Magyar)
- Icelandic (íslenska)
- Italian (Italiano)
- Norwegian (Norsk)
- Latvian (Latviešu)
- Lithuanian
- Polish (Polski)
- Português (Portugal)
- Português (Brasil)
- Romanian (Română)
- Russian (русский)
- Slovak (Slovenský)
- Slovak (slovenský) Alt
- Slovenian (Slovenski)
- Swedish (Svenska)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Ukrainian (українська)
- Trial Mode: Fully featured app for 10 uses. After that only email is usable.
I tried to use the Spanish keyboards to no avail. Where are the accent marks ?
Enrique,
To get accent matches, you need to swipe as usual and it will show you nearest matches with or without accents.
If you have particular words in mind, let me know. I can check dictionary manually to see if they are there in first place (only 50k words)
Gracias,
Hermit
Argh! Frustrating! There is a comment thread asking for keyboard apis to allow swype on wp7 suggestion box. It has 120 votes. Suggest you publicise and vote up
well i have voted on some keyboard related feature requests. I couldn’t find the one you mentioned with 120 votes. Please drop me a link. Its got more to do with allowing 3rd parties to publish native code as at the very bottom is a COM interface.
Hello there,
Any plans on adding Lithuanian language support too? We feel kinda left out now
Hey Peter, Apologies, I will have a look. Give me a few days and i will sort it out.
no worries, looking forward to the possible update then
peter.. i’m concerting word master into a full game.. need 2 days or so.. once that is done.. i’ll add support for lt.
awesome, much appreciated!
i have added support for lithuanian. wasn’t very difficult. i am trying to make some changes and will try to submit later on today
thanks
looking forward to the release!
it should have been out already (but i had incomplete greek translation) and was blocked. hard to submit it again on monday. hopefully it should be out soon.
thanks, I did try it out already, however the keyboard does not seem to include Lithuanian characters…
Latvian keyboard seems to have more keys, with their original characters, but not ours..
Hi Peter,
The only additional chars i found where (accents)
‘ą’, ‘č’, ‘ę’, ‘ė’, ‘į’, ‘š’, ‘ų’, ‘ū’, ‘ž’
These chars are represented by original chars
‘a’, ‘c’, ‘e’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘s’, ‘u’, ‘u’, ‘z’
Say you wanted to write jūsų
with Slydr, you trace over j u s u and it should show you jūsų with accents correctly and add it.
Similarly
ačiū – a c i u
štai – s t a i
and so on so forth. let me know whether this works or not
Not bad but wished it could totally replace the keyboard
so would i.. microsoft contact told me that they dont take code from non microsoft devs.. lets hope they open api one day
Using the trial version. Love the translate feature, but get many error msgs when scrolling through the list of options. Good thing I wasn’t looking for Urdu!
Paste option needs to be more visible in portrait mode. Shame MS doesn’t allow full access to the keyboard – a MIME input method would be awesome for correcting Japanese translation.
I had this on my old android phone
You could download it from app store
it had voice dictation swipe smileys insert pics and other things. I am so disappointed win 8 phone doesn’t have that function or a navigation system. I thing I m going to take back this phone while. I can. It’s. A shame because it does have beautiful design. And graphics. Thank you. For trying.
Sorry i am a simple developer who did this as a proof of concept. Since replacement of system keyboard is not possible, it can never do more.