English Text Expander Keyboard

This is a keyboard for making text expansions, also known as keyboard shortcuts or AutoText. For example, you can use it to create date stamps and time stamps. By default, the first three shortcuts are:

.d → current date
.t → current time
.dt → current date and time

In other words, after typing .d and then pressing the space key, it will expand to the current date, such as "2014-10-06".

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

Few existing Android keyboards are able to do all of these.

You don't need to set anything except defining your text shortcuts and their corresponding expansions. 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 to get the shortcut expanded.

No internet permissions are needed, and your privacy is respected. Actually, almost no permissions are needed.

Additional features:
• Expansion auto-capitalization
• Auto backspacing for punctuation
• Two-finger swipe is available to go to the end of the shortcut list at once
• Physical keyboards are supported. In other words, the shortcuts you create are also available for your physical keyboard
• Shortcut Quick Add: Just long press the
number key 1, and 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 pressing the space key, the shortcut

ap → apple

will be added to your shortcut list in the background. In other words, you will be able to use it immediately

• Additional expansion triggers:
1. Double-tap trigger: by typing the last character of the shortcut once more
2. Almost-auto trigger: any shortcut that contains non-alphabets will get expanded automatically
3. 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:
1. The add shortcut dialog
2. The show-shortcut page
3. The settings page
4. The add event page of your calendar app
5. Your calendar app
• All symbols, except space, are allowed in the definitions of shortcuts
• Long-pressing an alphabet will get its capital version
• Store, import, and export up to 3000 shortcuts
• Multi-line expansions are supported

Extra additional features:
• Auto-capitalization of the single letter "i"
• You can undo an expansion by long-pressing the number 0
• The macro "%clipboard" is added, so if you define a shortcut-expansion pair, for example:

.c → %clipboard,

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