Newbie question - auto text?

Steve66

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Hello,

I apologize up front if this has been covered somewhere else. I am currently a BlackBerry user and I'm planning to switch to the Evo 4G in a couple of weeks. I've done a fair amount of reading about Android software, but I was curious if a frequently-used BlackBerry feature is available. I do a ton of email and make heavy use of the BlackBerry's "auto text" feature. This lets you type a user-defined shortcut and it will expand it to whatever text you want. For example, type "btw" and it gets automatically expanded it to "by the way".

Is this kind of functionality available on the Android? Thanks in advance.

Steve
 
Hello,

I apologize up front if this has been covered somewhere else. I am currently a BlackBerry user and I'm planning to switch to the Evo 4G in a couple of weeks. I've done a fair amount of reading about Android software, but I was curious if a frequently-used BlackBerry feature is available. I do a ton of email and make heavy use of the BlackBerry's "auto text" feature. This lets you type a user-defined shortcut and it will expand it to whatever text you want. For example, type "btw" and it gets automatically expanded it to "by the way".

Is this kind of functionality available on the Android? Thanks in advance.

Steve
I'm a Berry user eying up android as well and as far as I know autotext is not native. However I did find a keyboard replacement app called smart keyboard pro that has autotext built in ;)
 
Great - thank you for the info!
No prob ;) There are a lot of useful things that RIM has built into its OS so I've been digging around to find whats available with android that offers similar functionality before I try to replace the Berry :D
 
I'm a Berry user eying up android as well and as far as I know autotext is not native. However I did find a keyboard replacement app called smart keyboard pro that has autotext built in ;)

is this the predictive text?
 
is this the predictive text?
No. The autotext system is set up by the user and replaces something that you set, like

mysig

with a word or block of text like

maxiang
maxiang@myemail.com
(123)-456-7890
~Sent via Carrier Pigeon~

Or anything else you want to use. It makes typing something that you use often very quick and easy.
 

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