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About

Display the installed Smart Keyboard Pro version and application information.

Help

Open this website for documentation and support.

Language

Current language

Choose the active language and keyboard layout.

Language selection key

Choose which languages and layouts are available when cycling from the keyboard.

Hide language key

Hide the language key even when several languages are enabled.

Show language icon

Control whether a language icon appears in the status bar.

Dictionaries

Enable or disable the built-in dictionaries used for suggestions.

Accents priority

Make long-press choose accented letters before alternate symbols where supported.

RTL suggestions

Reverse suggestion words for Arabic or Hebrew when required by the device display.

Force Latin layout

Keep one selected Latin layout while switching between compatible languages.

Hebrew alt layout

Place Backspace on the left in the Hebrew layout.

Czech/Slovak full layout

Add a top row containing accented letters.

Extended Compact/T9

Show all possible letters on long-press in English Compact or T9 mode.

See all current languages, layout variants and bundled dictionaries.

General settings

Select skin

Choose an installed or built-in keyboard skin.

Portrait mode

Choose Full, Compact or T9 for portrait orientation.

Numbers on top

Choose when to display a number row above the main keyboard.

Show arrows

Choose when cursor-arrow keys appear on the main keyboard.

Physical keyboard

Enable suggestions and layout translation for a connected keyboard; use Shift+Space to change language.

T9 Next key

Show a key that cycles through T9 suggestions.

Show preview popup

Show an enlarged key preview when pressing a key.

Transparency

Adjust overall keyboard opacity.

Cursor with volume

Use the device volume buttons to move the text cursor while typing.

Enable arrow keypad

Add an arrow-pad entry point to the 123 panel.

Arrows style

Choose arrows only, phone-style numbers or calculator-style numbers.

Always caps

Always draw letter labels in uppercase.

Show alt labels

Show the long-press character above the main key label.

Alt symbols

Show alternate labels on keys in the 123 symbols panel.

More symbols

Add a larger set of long-press symbols to the symbols panel.

Long-press duration

Adjust how long a key must be held to trigger its alternate input.

Custom smileys

Use the customizable smiley panel instead of emoji when long-pressing Enter.

Smiley key

Choose when the smiley key replaces Enter; available with Custom smileys.

Smiley editor

Edit the entries shown in the custom smiley panel.

Domain editor

Edit the shortcuts offered by the domain key.

Domain key

Choose when the domain key is displayed.

No landscape fullscreen

Keep the current app visible instead of opening Android fullscreen input in landscape.

Portrait fullscreen

Enable fullscreen input in portrait, useful on very small screens.

Multitap interval

Adjust the timing used to cycle characters when multitapping.

Calibration

Measure touch offsets to improve key targeting.

Key height

Set keyboard height separately for portrait and landscape.

Hide period / Hide comma

Remove either key to make the Space bar wider.

Bottom padding

Add space below the keyboard, for example above system navigation controls.

Text prediction

Auto-capitalization

Capitalize the beginning of a sentence.

Quick fixes

Correct common typing mistakes.

Show suggestions

Display candidate words while typing.

No landscape suggestions

Hide the suggestion strip in landscape.

Auto-complete

Let Space or punctuation insert the highlighted candidate.

Swap punctuation

Move punctuation before an automatically inserted trailing space.

Space after picking

Insert a space after manually selecting a suggestion.

Contacts dictionary

Use names from contacts as local suggestions when permission is granted.

User dictionary

Review and edit words added by you.

Clean user dictionary

Remove entries from the user dictionary.

Smart Dictionary

Learn local word frequencies to improve suggestion ordering.

Learn new words

Automatically add typed words when Smart Dictionary is enabled.

Custom AutoText

Create and edit text-expansion shortcuts.

Always suggest

Keep suggestions available in fields such as search.

Suggest punctuation

Offer punctuation marks in the suggestion strip.

Custom punctuation

Choose which punctuation marks are suggested.

Period on double space

Insert a period when Space is pressed twice.

Compound suggestions

Suggest compound words, mainly for German.

T9 length priority

Prefer T9 candidates whose length matches the entered sequence.

Suggest numbers

Allow suggestions beginning with a non-letter character.

Apostrophe separator

Treat apostrophes as word boundaries.

Touch to correct words

Show correction choices after touching an already-entered word.

Gestures

Swipe left, right, up and down

Assign an action independently to each direction. Available actions include symbols, Shift, closing the keyboard, language changes, cursor movement, deleting a word, emoji and layout changes.

Swipe sensitivity

Adjust the movement required for a swipe to register.

Voice input

Mic button

Show voice input when Android provides a compatible recognition service.

Keep comma

Keep a comma key alongside the microphone key.

Legacy Voice Input

Use the older recognition workflow instead of the standard Google Voice flow.

Restart voice input

Restart legacy recognition until it is cancelled.

Voice input best choice

Automatically insert the top legacy recognition result.

Sound and vibrate

Sound on keypress

Play a sound when a key is pressed.

Volume

Adjust keypress sound volume.

Select sound style

Choose the bundled keypress sound set.

Vibrate

Use haptic feedback on keypress.

Vibrate duration

Adjust the length of keypress vibration.

Space alert

Vibrate only when Space is pressed.

Backup settings

Backup to SD card

Save keyboard preferences to a user-accessible backup.

Restore from SD card

Restore previously saved preferences.

Export / import user dictionary

Move user words using CSV files.

Export / import AutoText

Move custom AutoText shortcuts using CSV files.

Advanced settings

Disable launcher icon

Hide the app icon from the launcher after setup.

Enable debug logs

Write additional diagnostic information; leave off unless troubleshooting.

Show touch points

Display detected touch positions on the keyboard.

Candidate color

Customize the highlighted suggestion color.

Slide popup keyboard

Select long-press alternatives by sliding over the popup.

Space preview

Show a key preview for Space.

Enter sends message

Ask Enter to send rather than add a new line; not supported by every app.

No alt preview

Suppress the popup preview when a key has only one alternative.

Dynamic key resizing

Adjust virtual key target sizes using next-letter probability.

Disable multitouch

Process keyboard touches without multitouch behavior.

Ignore hard keyboard

Show the software keyboard even when Android reports a hardware keyboard.

Hide in portrait

Keep the software keyboard hidden in portrait when using suitable hardware-keyboard devices.

Disable settings shortcut

Prevent long-pressing 123 from opening settings.