I wonder if you will be able to replace the stock keyboard with the touchpal one found on the App Store.
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iPhone Touchpal keyboard
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My girlfriend wants swype tho and iswipe sucks.
I think touchpal might be best alternative for a swype keyboard if a jailbreak lets you make it the default keyboard
I think touchpal might be best alternative for a swype keyboard if a jailbreak lets you make it the default keyboard
Yea not sure if there is one.
I was curious if there would be since touchpal is available on the AppStore but won't let you change the default keyboard
Yea I don't really care so much about the other tweaks but if the jailbreak will let you use touchpal as the default keyboard I think it's definitely worth it
There is a Touchpal keyboard in Cydia, actually.
Just search Touchpal, and you will find two tweaks from BigBoss. They are both Chinese, but don't worry, there is an English version hidden in the app. The one you want will say Touchpal Keyboard. Just download it (it's free), and when that's done, you'l see a Touchpal icon on your phone. Ignore that (unless you can read Chinese) because all the settings are in Chinese, and you won't need to change any of them anyhow.
Go into your phone's settings, and add the keyboard "Touchpal (English)". Now go into an app that uses the keyboard, like Messages or something, and press the globe in the bottom left of your keyboard to switch to the Touchpal one (note: the label for the keyboard will be entirely in Chinese). You'll see a keyboard that looks like a phone number pad with letters. Now just swipe from right to left across the keyboard, and boom, there it is: a perfectly functioning Touchpal/Swype English QWERTY keyboard.
I don't know why BigBoss only has this as an option bundled into a Chinese keyboard app, but I'm glad I did the digging to find it. It's so much better than iSwipe. Hope this helps!
Just search Touchpal, and you will find two tweaks from BigBoss. They are both Chinese, but don't worry, there is an English version hidden in the app. The one you want will say Touchpal Keyboard. Just download it (it's free), and when that's done, you'l see a Touchpal icon on your phone. Ignore that (unless you can read Chinese) because all the settings are in Chinese, and you won't need to change any of them anyhow.
Go into your phone's settings, and add the keyboard "Touchpal (English)". Now go into an app that uses the keyboard, like Messages or something, and press the globe in the bottom left of your keyboard to switch to the Touchpal one (note: the label for the keyboard will be entirely in Chinese). You'll see a keyboard that looks like a phone number pad with letters. Now just swipe from right to left across the keyboard, and boom, there it is: a perfectly functioning Touchpal/Swype English QWERTY keyboard.
I don't know why BigBoss only has this as an option bundled into a Chinese keyboard app, but I'm glad I did the digging to find it. It's so much better than iSwipe. Hope this helps!
Nice find!
So you have to hit the globe icon to get the touchpal keyboard? I'm assuming there is no way (as of yet) to make it the default keyboard.
It works extremely well. However there's too many buttons at the bottom, and the punctuation layout is so confusing, its hard to use. Wish there was a way to both integrate this into the Apple Keyboard. But the swype functionality works extremely well.
Uninstall SwipeSelection if you have that installed, and then hold down a button, usually the enter button or backspace then swipe over.
yea I just added this mod. going to test it out for a couple days. it's nice to be able to switch to the original keyboard easily.
this is probably the best Swype alternative
this is probably the best Swype alternative
@mml061010
Thanks a million for letting us know about this. I just installed it and it is working fine.
Will take some to get used to but worth it.
Btw any way to install new words in its dictionary ?
Also is the appstore touchpal better or the cydia one?
Btw for me on iOS 5.1.1 iPhone 4S, the touchpal icon cannot be opened. i just comes on a goes, sort of crashes but the keyboard works.
Thanks a million for letting us know about this. I just installed it and it is working fine.
Will take some to get used to but worth it.
Btw any way to install new words in its dictionary ?
Also is the appstore touchpal better or the cydia one?
Btw for me on iOS 5.1.1 iPhone 4S, the touchpal icon cannot be opened. i just comes on a goes, sort of crashes but the keyboard works.
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Yup appstore one is only app so it will require us to copy text and paste in the other app like message or anything.
Btw i was mentioning the cydia touchpal icon crashes but keyboard works.
The app store touchpal app works fine.
id like to know if within the chinese settings we can add words to the dictionary?? i tred comparing the english vs chinese. but its like reading........well chinese 