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
text expansion;date and time stamping;backing-up your shortcut-expansion pairs, or transferring them to another device;batch-inputting or batch-editing your shortcut-expansion pairs;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-capitalizationAuto backspacing for punctuationTwo-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 moreAlmost-auto trigger: any shortcut that contains non-alphabets will get expanded automaticallySwipe Trigger: for a 2-letter shortcut, swipe from the first to the last letterYou 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 dialogthe show-shortcut pagethe settings pagethe add event page of your calendar appyour calendar appStore, 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.