Change Log

• Double click to open resize mode
• Double click to activate caps lock
• In-app get support button (send problems & feedback to DevTeam)

• Position of STT button
• Add reset button to Slide trail and long press duration dialogs
• Change the minimum limit of long press duration to 100 millisecond
• Disable pop-up messages

• Add new Korean layout ( Short Vowel )
• Fix support for Latvian language
• Fix Bulgarian language link
• Add new language layouts

• For password type: no longer force ABC mode
• For number type: default to symbols layout
• For URI and e-mail types: allow easier domain inputs

• Update privacy policy

• When enter mode is access smiley layout, was changing to symbol layout
• When switching editor fields, reset the Shift state to OFF
• In Symbols layout, pressing on some keys in first line not responding (Generally, when minimize the width of keyboard and for keys 0,9)
• When update version from, all preferences were reset to default
• Fix some text translation in Russian
• Sometimes in first Initialization, ANR happen and it cause the process to crash
• Sometimes when opening  the Tutorial, it crashed because of OOM exception
• In Persian language, right language special setting, the testing text in View is empty
• Sspecial characters for Azerbaijani
• Special characters for Catalan
• In Samsung devices, when enter button mode is Emoticons layout in messaging app, was not working.
• When changing orientation or when closing the keyboard, the SlideIT/ABC mode was not saved
• Sometimes, when selecting all text and pressing Delete didn’t work
• Max limit length when insert new word or shortcut to dictionary.
• When insert long word the application crashed because the dictionary in not valid.
• Fix update frequence

General

• Much stronger sliding engine
• Word suggestions are personalized by user’s writing history
• Better add/remove words management
• Suggest whole word completions during slide
• Supporting Korean language

New features

• Sliding from the backspace deletes whole word
• Placing cursor at end of word enters tapping mode on the word
• Word case can be changed after entry
• Sliding from the letters to space to insert space before the new letter
• Slide left on space to insert tab
• Symbols can be entered by sliding up from the corresponding letter keys

FastAction

• Added FastAction capability – sliding from ?123 button to one of the letters keys
• Can insert dynamic or static text (Time, Date and E-mail)
• Can open apps (camera, phone dialer, mail, SMS, browser and keyboard settings)
• Can be used for editing commands (Cut, Copy, Past and Select all)

Keyboard size and look

• Full 2D resizing to any size
• Move keyboard horizontally to any position
• Skins updated to include a surface
• Skin's bugs fixed

User Interface

• New scrollable keyboard banner
• Option to hide language button and get a wider space button
• Long press the microphone button to get to speech settings
• Keyboard messages’ language can be set separately from UI
• Many corrections of UI texts

Symbol and number entry

• Number are suggested in the banner when tapping the corresponding letter keys
• Punctuation suggestions in the banner
• Arabic numerals conversion suggestion in the banner
• Auto insert period when quick double space
• Swap period after space order
• country's currencies suggestion added
• missing symbols on ?123 layouts added
• Arabic numerals on ?123 layout added

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Input management

• Improved auto-space behavior
• URL suggestions (.com .net…) on URL text area
• disabling auto-space on URL text area
• disabling auto-space when deleting a space
• disabling auto-space sliding when starting sliding with a long press
• Option to disable tapping auto-correction
• Option to delete only last letter after sliding
• Shift visibly on before auto-caps and can be disabled
• Shift can be toggled mid-word when tapping
• Fixed shortcut handling with auto-caps and tapping
• Fixed many languages special needs
   

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• Loop through many languages
• Language selection dialog (Long press on globe button, or when pressing in globe button and just one language in use)
• Choose language of banner text according to the current used dictionary or by device locale (Fixed bug: sometimes the message contains words in 2 language)
• Remove built-in Metal theme
• Option to remove skin from context menu in skins menu
• New UI translation into languages: English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish

• Option to import contact data to dictionary - name, address and email
• Language UI
• Option to choose the used languages from installed list
• Option to set the used languages order
• Menu options: Export, Import, Remove
• Context menu options: Export, Remove
• All available and installed languages in one menu
• Automatic notification update for Market versions
• Update built-in English dictionary

• Improve Speech-To-Text service for Android versions greater than 2.1
• Better integration with the STT service, new UI, new preferences, should fix bugs that happen in older API
• Preference for choosing language mode (define Speech language)
• Preference for choosing STT service (Vlingo, Google, ...)
• Option to display text results or insert the text immediately

• New interface of preferences list, organized by categories
• Language preference UI
• Import dictionary
• Export dictionary
• Remove dictionary
• Remove skin
• Check for Updates (Market versions)
• Import contact data
• Speech-To-Text preferences
• Display/Hide Language button
• Reset visual settings
• Audio feedback volume
• Vibrate duration

• When installing language pack, add automatically to using language list
• When import dictionary, add automatically to using language list
• When removing language pack, show backup alert
• When installing language pack show notification in status bar instead of popup alert
• When installing right-to-left language pack, show alert with specific right-to-left language preferences

• Support for transparent keys
• When installing skin show notification in status bar instead of popup alert

• Add setup screens: Languages, Import contact and skins
• Friendly interface in Enable keyboard screen

• In update view and check update view
• In landscape the update message was displayed on top of the title
• In case of large message, no option for scrolling
• In case that user installs skin, and applies the installed skin, and then goes back to skin menu, and then closes it, the skin choice is not saved
• Update long press behavior, when pressing on button and then moving to other area, cancel the long press timer
• In preference dialog: enter mode, shortcut option, solution mode in landscape, sometimes there no space for all the items (add scroller)
• In ChangeLog view, when changing orientation the dimension of view not updating
• For diacritic mode, some SMS applications nor recognized correctly
• When tapping and then changing orientation, the last letter was inserted to Editor automatically.

• Skins Support:
• 3 built-in skins.
• Option to download skins from the Android Market
• Speech-To-Text: when using speech recognition, use in the current language and try to match the user country to the specific language-country
• Improved and polished UI for Symbols Layout
• Improved and polished UI when resizing the keyboard, (keeps the topbar height and letter button height ratio, keeps icon size ratio)
• Improved UI for tablets
• Update layout in landscape mode to be the same as in portrait, removing one button.
• Display STT or Graffiti button with priority to STT button
• Main layout - display the current language code on the language button.
• Visual feedback on key presses
• Graffiti layout - Reverse period and comma keys to match other layouts
• When choosing text by placing the cursor in the middle of a word will now select whole word containing symbols and numbers, but the word must start and end with letter

• Skins preferences
• Skins download
• Restore the keyboard height

• When sliding a word, and then selecting another word for correction by placing the cursor in the middle of the word, not getting the suggested words
• When pressing on the banner scroller, the suggested words disappeared and the keyboard was switched to ABC mode
• When long pressing in the shift area, the keyboard was switched to ABC mode and then back to Slide mode
• When enabling keyboard sounds, show system display preferences on Android OS 2.2 and up
• For right-to-left languages, option to display Bold style font

• More compact and efficient Engine

Internationalization

• Add Support for more languages and keyboards:
  
  • English[Dvorak],
  • English[Colemak],
  • Czech[QWERTY],
  • Ukrainian,
  • Belarusian,
  • Brazilian,
  • Afrikaans,
  • Swahili,
  • Catalan,
    Icelandic,
  • Indonesian,
  • Albanian,
    Serbian[Cyrillic],
  • Serbian[Latin]

UI

• Better UI for tablet devices
  • Change the default keyboard height in Portrait/Landscape
  • In Landscape mode, open Graffiti layout automatically.
  • In Landscape mode, full screen mode is disabled by default.
• For right-to-left languages, switch direction of suggestion bar.
• Better quality of buttons in suggestion bar, when changing between
• Portrait to Landscape modes.
• Option to resize the keyboard on-the-fly.
• Option to insert colon(:) and semicolon(;) characters from the main layout.

Preferences

• Landscape view mode
• Full screen enabled/disabled in landscape mode.
• Option to change the Enter key behavior

Bugs Fixed

• License Activation
• Some device models encountered a problem while verifying the license.
• Some device models couldn't activate the product.
  When inserting long words (more then about 20 characters), the keyboard
  was crashing.
• Auto cap, auto space fixed for some editors types. (Web pages, search
  forms)
• For devices with hard keyboards, when using the physical keyboard, hide
  the soft keyboard automatically.
• In some device models, when pressing the comma button, getting a
  question mark instead.
• For Persian language, fix for letter Tcheh (U+0686).
• Fix for some special symbols characters.
• Better identification of SMS applications for diacritics mode.

1. Speed and accuracy increased.

2. Icon Mode Notification Status:
In the preference list icon Mode Notification status is available:
when ON the mode status will be displayed in the notification bar.
when OFF no icon is present.

3. Application Launcher Icon.
• First time user can now activate the keyboard easily and intuitively.
• Show important info about SlideIT: News, change Log, About, Help, Videos, Tutorial.

4. Speech Recognizer.
• New Speech button in the main layout.
• Preference to choose the Speech button instead of Graffiti.
• Automatic detection on devices which do not support speech recognition.
• In Landscape mode both buttons (graffiti + Speech) are displayed.

5. Slide Path
• Length of the "snake" trajectory can be set by the user in the setting list.

6. Deleting Language pack
• When a language pack is removed it is also deleted from the keyboard data-base.

7. Automatic Dictionary Save
• The dictionary modifications are automatically updated at any time.

8. New Dictionary format.
• Messages are displayed when the keyboard version doesn't match the dictionary version.

9. Single letter tapping
• Single letter tapping with the corresponding alternative characters as an example in French when tapping character "e" second choices are displayed : "è","é","ê","ë". Both in Slide and ABC mode.

10. Shortcut messages
• Show messages after Add, Delete or Update a shortcut

11. Faster long press button
• Repeat commands (Delete, Space, Enter etc') are executed faster.

12. Indications on current version and current language in the Setting list.
• Version number is displayed under the About item.
• Current language is displayed under the Primary and Secondary language items


13. Language packs install location
• For Android Version 2.2 (Froyo) and higher it's possible to install the Language packs on
the external storage (Device SD card). The default installation location is external storage.


UI
• Skin Design was modified ( Ex. Shift / Caps ).
• Keyboard enlarged with a new design.
• ABC mode can be accessed from the main layout.
• New Scroller [1/x] button on the Special Character layout.
• Buttons are highlighted when pressed with feedback.
• Better resolution & quality for image layouts.
• Dark blue color for the exactly tapped word.
• New languages (New languages are: Persian, Slovene, Slovak, Turkish, Belgium(Dutch with Azerty layout) , Canada (French with QWERTY), Swiss (French with qwertz layout), Lithuanian, Latvian).
• New Globe button, switch between languages, in the main layout.
• And more others ...

Bug Fixed
• Unicode Treatment for all the languages, no confusions with upper-case/lower-case characters.
• Better treatment related with the 'Enter' button.
• Caps function can be activated only with a long press on the Shift button.
• When adding or updating a shortcut, the shortcut list is not anymore automatically scrolled to the bottom of the shortcuts list.
• Shortcuts Update & Delete procedure is fixed.