Stock Android Keyboard now in Play Store

[trmiv]

The Google Apps were never open source in the first place.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Menu>Settings >advanced on the S3 and S2

Not there on the S4. Fisher Price.

 

[WelshBloke]

Not there on the S4. Fisher Price.

Do you want the .APK from the S3?

 

[poofyhairguy]

Do you want the .APK from the S3?

No its ok I can hack on the AOSP browser. Thanks though.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The Google Apps were never open source in the first place.

AOSP keyboard is open source. By moving it to a separate Play Store app it may not be anymore. I don't know. It seems like something they're moving towards too like with the Calendar.

Gtalk was open source. Hangouts is now completely proprietary. Granted people are reverse engineering it.

Um, I'm pretty sure the Play Store (and other Google Apps) are the few things that aren't open source.

If it's bundled with Android, it has to be open source. If it's Gapps, they don't have to be, although some are. Same with Play Store.

 

[gmaster456]

Best Keyboard out here in my opinion. Glad it can be had on other phones.

 

[Red Storm]

If it's bundled with Android, it has to be open source. If it's Gapps, they don't have to be, although some are. Same with Play Store.

The Gapps aren't open source, you have license them if you want to include them on your Android device AFAIK.

Anyway getting back on topic, Google decoupling their keyboard is good news for users. This has been their way to counter manufacturers and carriers holding back updates. It also got rid of the need to wait for one big annual update (ala Apple) and instead updates release straight to the apps in the Play Store when ready.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

The Gapps aren't open source, you have license them if you want to include them on your Android device AFAIK.

Anyway getting back on topic, Google decoupling their keyboard is good news for users.

Do you ever read what you write? I never said Gapps are open source. They CAN be open source. However bundled apps with Android, like the apps that come along in CyanogenMod for example are open source. So Gtalk for example was open source. It no longer has to be when you move it to a Play Store app.

I'm pointing out the downfalls of this trend. I'm not saying it means the overall change is bad. Of course you can keep regurgitating what people say "Wow this is great." That's not helpful at all.

 

[trmiv]

AOSP keyboard is open source. By moving it to a separate Play Store app it may not be anymore. I don't know. It seems like something they're moving towards too like with the Calendar.

Gtalk was open source. Hangouts is now completely proprietary. Granted people are reverse engineering it.



If it's bundled with Android, it has to be open source. If it's Gapps, they don't have to be, although some are. Same with Play Store.

The keyboard isn't really what I would consider part of Google Apps. And them releasing it on the play store doesn't mean it's suddenly not open source.

Also Google Talk itself wasn't open source, it just used open source protocols. The app itself was not open source

 

[Red Storm]

Do you ever read what you write? I never said Gapps are open source. They CAN be open source. However bundled apps with Android, like the apps that come along in CyanogenMod for example are open source. So Gtalk for example was open source. It no longer has to be when you move it to a Play Store app.

I'm pointing out the downfalls of this trend. I'm not saying it means the overall change is bad. Of course you can keep regurgitating what people say "Wow this is great." That's not helpful at all.

I don't see the downfalls, I see progression from what we had before. I don't use or run custom ROM's so to me this all good stuff to see.

 

[WelshBloke]

Do you ever read what you write? I never said Gapps are open source. They CAN be open source. However bundled apps with Android, like the apps that come along in CyanogenMod for example are open source. So Gtalk for example was open source. It no longer has to be when you move it to a Play Store app.

I'm pointing out the downfalls of this trend. I'm not saying it means the overall change is bad. Of course you can keep regurgitating what people say "Wow this is great." That's not helpful at all.

I don't think Gtalk was open source. Its servers used an open protocol but I don't think that the actual client was open source.

Edit. Whoops was already mentioned by trmiv. Just ignore me.

 

[Wyndru]

Definitely a nice option, and free, but I'd use either SwiftKey or Swype over stock...but hey, it's better than the one included with Sense.

I've had it for a week or so on my kindle fire, and I think I like it more than swype. The only thing I miss is the cursors to move around your text.