English Expansion Keyboard Pro

a keyboard for making text expansions, aka keyboard shortcuts, or AutoText

Keyboard Pro Features

• Supports also Cangjie Input Method for Traditional Chinese characters (繁中倉頡輸入法)

• The Cangjie mode is a mixed keyboard layout mode, which allows you to type English and Chinese in the same sentence, without switching to another layout.

  倉頡版面採用混合鍵盤設計，即是中英文「一版過」，單頁可同時打中英文，毋須切換鍵盤頁面。打了字母後，如果按「左空格鍵」，就會出英文；如果按「右空白鍵」，則可生中文。

Note: The default mode is English. To activate the English-Chinese mixed layout, tap the key at the left of the space key.

This app has a free trial version "English Text Expansion Keyboard", which includes the following features:

Keyboard Features

This is a keyboard for making text expansions, aka keyboard shortcuts, or AutoText. This keyboard is useful if you need

1. text expansion;
2. date and time stamping;
3. backing-up your shortcut-expansion pairs, or transferring them to another device;
4. batch-inputting or batch-editing your shortcut-expansion pairs;
5. creating or editing your shortcut-expansion pairs on a desktop computer, before importing them into your Android phone.

You don't need to set anything except defining your text shortcuts. For example, you can define

hay → How are you?

Then, every time you type "hay", it will expand to "How are you?"

Note: After typing a text shortcut, you need to press the space key in order to get the shortcut expanded.

No internet permission is needed.

Additional features:

• Expansion auto-capitalization
• Auto backspacing for punctuation
• Two-finger swipe is available for you to go to the end of the shortcut list at once.
• Physical keyboards are supported. In other words, the shortcuts you created are also available for your physical keyboard.
• Shortcut Quick Add: Just long press the number key 1, then the add-a-shortcut dialog will pop up. After defining your shortcut-expansion pair, it will send you back to the original text editor at once.

• Shortcut Super Quick Add: Define shortcuts on the fly, WITHOUT ever leaving the text editor that you are using. For example, by just typing

  .ahk.ap.apple

  and then press the space key, the shortcut

  ap → apple

  will be added. In other words, you will be able to use it immediately.

• Additional expansion triggers

  • Double-tap trigger: by typing the last character of the shortcut once more
  • Almost-auto trigger: any shortcut that contains non-alphabets will get expanded automatically
  • Swipe Trigger: for a 2-letter shortcut, swipe from the first to the last letter
  • You can enable some or all of them in the Settings page.

• Built-in mini-launcher: Long-pressing the number keys 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 will launch

  • the add shortcut dialog
  • the show-shortcut page
  • the settings page
  • the add event page of your calendar app
  • your calendar app
• Store, import, and export up to 3000 shortcuts.
• Multi-line expansions are supported.

Extra additional features:

• You can undo an expansion by long-pressing the number 0.

• The macro “%clipboard” is added, so that if you define a shortcut-expansion pair, for example,

  .c → %clipboard

  , every time you type “.c”, the text from clipboard will be pasted.