Alex, comments for Android applications and games, Androlib, Android Applications and Games directory

by Alex the 12/7/2011

Alternative English Layouts

Best DVORAK App I've been able to find. I compared this to the other DVORAK app by xenionsh, and I I like this one much better. Although the other app has a larger vertical key size than this one, making this app slightly more prone to vertical errors, I found that the autocorrect on this app works so well that it more than makes up for this small deficiency. Also, I really love the extra features that take up the additional vertical space: the dictionary words, which can be helpful for typing long words, and the left and right arrows are both really useful additions. I wrote a more thorough review on the main app's page for AnySoftKeyboard. I think this keyboard app as a whole is outstanding.

by Alex the 12/7/2011

AnySoftKeyboard

Very well-designed, comprehensive, good for DVORAK I downloaded this app because I wanted to use the alternative layouts extension pack for it, so that I could use the DVORAK layout. I was not disappointed. This is a feature-rich app that is well-designed. Little details are what seals the deal for me, making this 5 stars. The keys are a tiny bit small in the vertical direction, but this is made up for by the fact that the autocorrect works very well, and the popup key feature to get accents and other details also works well. I notice that one of the recent updates seems to have made the popup keys work well. This keyboard has just about everything you'd need. I love the third screen of unusual characters, I love the little left and right arrows at the top, I love the words pulled from the dictionary, which is a time saver for very long words. And I especially love that this app seamlessly and quickly adds new words to the dictionary, asking you first (not doing it without permission) but making it only take a single click. On the DVORAK app, this one really blows away the other free DVORAK app available. The other app does seem less error prone vertically with individual keystrokes, but it lags behind in all other areas.

by Alex the 9/13/2011

SeptaDroid

Unusably slow. Info available elsewhere. Useless. Unusably slow. Most functions take 15 seconds or more to load, sometimes a full minute or more. All the scheduling information is available through google maps' transit option, but google maps is smarter and MUCH faster. The real-time train info is available on SEPTA's website, again, faster and more responsive than this app. The system map is just the basic map available everywhere. There's no complete system map. The app also crashed / locked up once in my few times of trying it out. Useless.