Keyboard Master for Android
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There are piles of keyboards/input methods out there for Android devices. But it stands to reason that some keyboards are much better for some tasks than others. Imagine a hypothetical app which never accepts alphabetic input. When running this app, you don't need a full QWERTY keyboard - something like a 10-key pad would be much more efficient. So you may find yourself regularly switching between keyboards whenever you use a certain app. But doing so in Android is something of a pain involving at least several steps each time you switch.
Keyboard Master exists to save you this time and hassle! It permits your device to "remember" (called a mapping) that you want to use a specific keyboard each time you run a specific app. And when that app becomes the active task, Keyboard Master takes care of making the keyboard swap and then swapping back when the app is no longer being used.
Keyboard Master operates, by default, in a free mode. In free mode you can establish only a single mapping at a time so you can test how well the app works on your device. This single mapping may be adequate for some users and, if so, please enjoy Keyboard Master at no charge.
Users with more advanced needs will appreciate the Pro Upgrade which you can purchase within Keyboard Master (see the options menu). Purchasing this upgrade will enable the following additional features of Keyboard Master:
All of this power and convenience comes at a technical price. Not only does this app require ROOT, but it also must be installed as a "system" app (as opposed to a normal or downloaded app) because only a system app is permitted to swap keyboards in this way. So once you have downloaded Keyboard Master, you MUST move it to the location on your device where system apps reside. And it must be moved back prior to full uninstall.
Please see the app's Help for all the details.
I want to thank the author of this app who's published code hinted at how Keyboard Master could accomplish all of this.
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Gives me an error saying I don't have busybox (I have Superuser), but works perfectly. I used "/system/app mover" by j4velin to move this after install. Now I have the system keyboard set for Snapchat, and Swiftkey for everything else. (Swiftkey doesn't work right in Snapchat.)
Stopped working after lolipop upgrade. Even bad that System App cannot uninstall.
Msks
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Excellent
complains that my rooted phone with busbox needs root and busibox. The fact that it doesn't say which reflects rather poorly. I won't waste any more time and will uninstall.
2013-12-1 BionicJB. Works, though causes problems with lastpass. Unfortunately it checks for license far too often, causing it to fail when no internet connection (frequent when travelling). Not worth the money unless this check is changed to *at most* once a day. I'm tempted to reverse engineer this just to remove the check (I've bought the app)- apps like this abuse the network permission, and net use is a performance/battery killer.
Gives me an error saying I don't have busybox (I have Superuser), but works perfectly. I used "/system/app mover" by j4velin to move this after install. Now I have the system keyboard set for Snapchat, and Swiftkey for everything else. (Swiftkey doesn't work right in Snapchat.)
App works fine, switches keyboards to match my mappings, but constantly nags that root or busybox isn't working. I can start the service but can't enable keyboard termination.
keyboard service takes 20 mb ram, why so big?
Excellent
complains that my rooted phone with busbox needs root and busibox. The fact that it doesn't say which reflects rather poorly. I won't waste any more time and will uninstall.
2013-12-1 BionicJB. Works, though causes problems with lastpass. Unfortunately it checks for license far too often, causing it to fail when no internet connection (frequent when travelling). Not worth the money unless this check is changed to *at most* once a day. I'm tempted to reverse engineer this just to remove the check (I've bought the app)- apps like this abuse the network permission, and net use is a performance/battery killer.
Gives me an error saying I don't have busybox (I have Superuser), but works perfectly. I used "/system/app mover" by j4velin to move this after install. Now I have the system keyboard set for Snapchat, and Swiftkey for everything else. (Swiftkey doesn't work right in Snapchat.)
App works fine, switches keyboards to match my mappings, but constantly nags that root or busybox isn't working. I can start the service but can't enable keyboard termination.
keyboard service takes 20 mb ram, why so big?
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