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Android Expert
I received an email from Swype this afternoon saying that the Beta I'm using (I'm a registered Beta user) will expire "in a few days," and urging me to download the new installer, which will then download and install the new version of Swype. But I had to uninstall the old installer and version first.
I did.
And the new installer didn't work. I tried it a dozen times, and every time I received a message saying that the "Installer is out of date."
There's a note from a Swype tech on the Swype forum (posted at about 5:30pm) saying that they knew there's a problem and that we'll all get mailed out a new installer "within 24 hours."
Until then, I limp along with the stock keyboard.
EDIT: Never mind. By 11:30pm CDT it was fixed. THANK GOD.
According to the email, here are the changes:
- added German and Portuguese
- added auto-space suppression short-cut gesture (from spacebar to backspace)
- added quick language switch short cut gesture
- improved word prediction algorithm
- improved handling of several gesture collisions (incl want/wasn't, to/too and others)
- Android IME no longer sometimes hangs/crashes when Swype scrapes the user's address book for dictionary entries
- tips and help menus now accessible when a password field is active
-backspace now works in applications which use raw key imput instead of an editable tet field (e.g. terminal emulator)
- The single character "i" is no longer incorrectly auto-capitalized in non-English languages
- tons of other minor bug fixes, including many device-specific issues
I did.
And the new installer didn't work. I tried it a dozen times, and every time I received a message saying that the "Installer is out of date."
There's a note from a Swype tech on the Swype forum (posted at about 5:30pm) saying that they knew there's a problem and that we'll all get mailed out a new installer "within 24 hours."
Until then, I limp along with the stock keyboard.
EDIT: Never mind. By 11:30pm CDT it was fixed. THANK GOD.
According to the email, here are the changes:
- added German and Portuguese
- added auto-space suppression short-cut gesture (from spacebar to backspace)
- added quick language switch short cut gesture
- improved word prediction algorithm
- improved handling of several gesture collisions (incl want/wasn't, to/too and others)
- Android IME no longer sometimes hangs/crashes when Swype scrapes the user's address book for dictionary entries
- tips and help menus now accessible when a password field is active
-backspace now works in applications which use raw key imput instead of an editable tet field (e.g. terminal emulator)
- The single character "i" is no longer incorrectly auto-capitalized in non-English languages
- tons of other minor bug fixes, including many device-specific issues