The fever of virtual keyboards with the possibility of typing without lifting your finger has arrived thanks to the presentation that Google made just a few days ago. And it is that those of Mountain View showed the public their new version Android 4.2, where you could see the inclusion of a new type of keyboard that resembled the well-known Swype and that "" still in beta form "" can be installed manually. Similarly, the keyboard used by one of Sony's top sellers, the Sony Xperia S, also has that function: typing without lifting your finger. And we show you how to install it on your device:
Android 4.2 arrives on November 13. Or at least the new Google equipment: the Nexus 4 smartphone and its sister in the form of the Nexus 10 tablet. Many are the users who want to write in a more comfortable way. As can be done with the Swype application, a virtual keyboard with which you can write texts on the terminal by sliding your finger over the letters. This option is available in the version that Sony installs on its Android terminals. And thanks to the XDA-Developers forum, it can be installed on any advanced mobile with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich version at least.
To begin, the user must download the following file that is compressed in ZIP. It will not be necessary to unzip it, since it must be copied "" literally "" in the internal memory of the smartphone to be updated. After this step, you must have active Root or superuser access. And it is that you will need to be able to access the Recovery mode with the ClockworkMod Recovery program, after turning the equipment off and on.
Once inside the program, the user must be guided with the volume keys and choose the option " install from SD card " or "install from sdcard" in English. Choose the compressed file that was previously copied to the phone "" the same one that was downloaded "" and let the entire installation process work.
After finishing the whole process, you must select to exit and restart the mobile. After all these steps, the smartphone will start its power-on process with complete normality and can be activated from the "Settings" section of the mobile, the keyboard that Sony integrates in its terminals, where in addition to being able to select the type of text input, it can also it can be customized with different options.
In case this option does not work, the forero in charge of offering the Sony Xperia S keyboard to other users has also explained the way in which the installation should be applied manually. First, you must unzip the files on your computer. After this, the "Apps" folder is copied to the mobile. Within the applications folder, you must choose the following files: textinput-tng.apk and textinput-chn.apk . These should be copied, thanks to a program like Root Explorer (file manager), into the following destination: system / app .
After this step, the file lib / libXT9Engine is copied and pasted into the / system / lib folder. And, the file usr / xt9 inside the folder / system / usr . After this, the smartphone has to be rebooted and the keyboard should appear and work correctly. We remind readers that both processes will be done under the responsibility of the user.
