Install Android 2.3 Gingerbread Keyboard On Any Android Device
Last week, Google introduced the latest version of Android Gingerbread. The new updated version of Android brings with it many changes including a new spiced up UI and a new multi-touch keyboard. The new keyboard not only looks sexy but is a pretty good improvement over the older default Android keyboard.
Now, the awesome modding community of Android has already ripped apart the keyboard from the Android 2.3 Gingerbread SDK.
To get the new Android 2.3 keyboard on your device, users can simply install this (Alt. link) APK file on their Android handset. However, users must make sure that their handset is running on Android 2.2 (Froyo). If for some reason, the APK refuses to install on your phone then users can flash this (Alt. link) file on their phone using CWM (ClockWorkMod) Recovery.
For people, who don’t know what CWM is, I would recommend them to simply try and install the APK file on their handset. The keyboard works perfectly on my Samsung Galaxy S running a custom ROM based on Android 2.2.1. However, the only thing which does not work is the Vibrate On Keypress’ option.
Nevertheless, I will recommend all Android owners to give this new Android 2.3 keyboard a shot.
Source: XDA (Sadly, I lost the link to the thread so if anyone manages to find it, please do link me to it.)
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Used it for two days and then went back to Swype. :p
I tried but it made my nexus one crash. :(