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Adaptxt Keyboard for Android smartphones review and hands-on video

2012-06-14
what's going on folks is Clayton over to Android Authority calm today I've got an app review of the adapt text beta keyboard now we're just going to be using the lg optimus 4x HD and I'm gonna compose a memo to show you the adapt text keyboard now as you can see here it has a nice clean layout it's very cool looking and you can see that we have our suggestion bar on top which is one of the main features of the adapt X keyboard it is really pushing for the suggestions and the predictions and then we also have automatic text replacement which is a very cool intuitive feature but we'll just walk through some of these simple steps with the adapt X keyboard to start off now this is our adapt text menu if we long press but if we don't long press we can just access our numbers and our punctuation and we've got two pages of that I'll just go through there we can go back as you can see every single key if you long press it accesses the icon in blue above the letter or the piece of punctuation whenever you're using we have our voice input we've got our capitalization this is a very cool share to networks social media sort of option that I'll show you here in a second and then we have our suggestion bar with drop-down menu to show us the rest of these suggestions now I'll go into the Adaptec settings before actually done with the keyboard by long pressing the adapt X button there see we have our private mode off which stops the keyboard from learning the words you type so if you want to type some naughty messages to your girlfriend or whatnot um we've got our layouts we can remove the accents and diacritics we can access our settings and we can access our ATR options so I'll just go to the settings super quick we have our my dictionary which is the list of words that the adapt X keyboard has learned from your use we have our add-on manager and the add-ons have a lot of different options we can see here that we have the English us selected as the current keyboard language you can also choose a business us and because they're Industry specific there's like medical and there's IT industry also got our English for the UK there's a bunch of different languages you can all download from the Play Store and then we can print out prioritize our add-ons so if we have more than one we can choose which one is actually the priority in which one it will predict more than often than not so we can go back we can personalize our suggestions by logging into some social accounts such as Facebook or Twitter or we can also import the Android keyboard into learn such as the words we've already typed on the Android keyboard before using the adapt X beta we have our automatic text replacement on which I'll show you here in a minute where we can go to our shortcuts and expansions so as you see here HR you when you type it in would expand to how are you but I'll actually add one just so we can demo it in the video and I'll do I AF loops a which will expand to I am fine so we'll just save that for further use here in a minute anyways we have our auto correction and we have the auto correction mode we can have extended character bubbles and we can choose our interactive feedback settings whether we want the haptic feedback the vibrate or the sound on press then we can go to a liking adapt text on Facebook and we can rate them but anyways we'll just demo some of the actual keyboards use on the memo here so I as I begin typing we can actually see that it'll protect typing and I'll put a comma the adapt text keyboard learns what I type as you can see there it suggested some stuff there in the suggestion bar and we can also drop it down to some just more but we cannot go down here and I'll show you some of the ATR the automatic text replacement where we can press each are you and will just press the one with the plus button and expands to hi how are you and we can do the iaf whoops always hitting you know I AF I'm fine so we have our automatic text replacement feature which is very cool it's an intuitive feature by the adapt text keyboard now to access the languages we're actually doing this in we can long press the English there and if we have more download that we can access them there or we can drop down the keyboard and if we've long press here it will just go away but anyways you can um let's see have a status worthy sentence and if I want to post that I can long press the social media button and we can post to Facebook Twitter and more now if you want to log in with your Facebook you can do so or you can log in with your Twitter but you can simply just click one of those and it will post to your social network of choice so that's basically the adapt text keyboard guys you can check out the beta version of the Play Store right now and so I would suggest checking it out and if you like the videos stay updated with Android Authority by subscribing to our youtube check out our website as well
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