All the news yesterday made our heads spin. We knew it wouldn’t take too long for some of the new features described in Android 4.2 to find their way over to other devices. The one we are really hoping gets modified up is the Photo Sphere ability in the new camera. That might be asking a little to much so early after the announcement. It does look like one of the new goodies is out in the wild though. The new swype style stock Android keyboard app is now available for just about anyone to install. It will depend on your device and a few other things though.
First off, you will need to be on Android 4.0+ to even think about installing it.
If you are utilizing a stock device by Samsung, HTC, Sony or any other number of manufacturers where the stock keyboard from Google is disabled, you should have no issue downloading the apk and installing like normal even without ROOT. It may also work on some stock built ROM’s but any straight build from Google is not going to work in this manner. You can always give it a shot, worst case scenario is it won’t install.
Download – Android 4.2 Keyboard APK
Now if it fails on you then you will need to flash the little zip file below instead. Of course that means you will need root and need to know how to flash a zip file. As a precaution, you should make a backup of the app just in case anything goes wrong or you absolutely hate it. You can also just make a backup of your whole ROM if you want.
Download – Android 4.2 Keyboard flashable ZIP
Once you get it all installed and running, be sure to let us know how it compares to which ever keyboard app you already use daily, especially if that keyboard is Swype.
Original story and files from AndroidPolic
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I thought it was a keyboard from the Play Store
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Install this sucker its awesome. Works perfectly on galaxy note with CM10. Very cool how the word appears as you are swiping. Recommended.
This keyboard looks surprisingly similar to the stock keyboard that came with my Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-i747 AT&T). I of course rooted and flashed CyanogenMod 10 on it so I don’t have it anymore atm, but interesting that Samsung would include this keyboard as stock in their TouchWiz 5 Android 4.0.4 ICS-based release stock ROM. Maybe I’m just seeing the screenshots wrong, but that’s what it looks like from the picture.
What you’re thinking of is “swype” which Samsung has used for years but this is Googles own version.
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So why you need root to flash the zip? Only custom recovery needed on sgs3.
So looks like the first link worked for me. Loving the new keyboard.
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This KB is sick, I installed and am loving it. I have been die hard SwiftKey for the last 6 months or so, but I am going to run this for a while. Kudos on the find. I like.
Finally there’s a KB that can sway me away from my all time fave FlexT9. Sorry old friend, you’ve been upgraded.
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Works like a charm, flashed the zip file and am definitely replacing swype for this. Very fluent and a better looking UI. Im running a nightly of AOKP JB and have had no issues!
It installed fine on my HP TouchPad running CM9. AMAZING! It’s running a bit slow on that hardware though, so I’m curious to see if a reboot will help.
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