HTC has uploaded its Sense keyboard to Google Play, but if you were thinking you could get a bit of HTC razzmatazz on any old Android blower then you’re fresh out of luck: it only works on handsets running Sense 6 (for the now).
The move is an increasingly common one by Android manufacturers including Google and Motorola, but also those with their own bespoke UI and app suites such as Sony. Rather than having the complication of pushing updated software straight to devices, often as part of a larger and relatively infrequent firmware patch, they can simply host these individual components on Google’s storefront and let Google’s auto-updating functionality do a big chunk of the work for them.
That means that only HTC devices with the keyboard pre-installed will be getting updates pushed from Google Play – you can’t just go and install the Sense keyboard on your Sony Xperia, for example. Specifically, the keyboard in question is also for HTC Sense 6, meaning it’s the keyboard seen on the HTC One M8, HTC One, and some new Desire handsets, amongst others – you can’t get it on older HTC handsets lower than Sense 6. A keyboard update is currently rolling out, although this one is just some bugfixes. Here’s the changelog:
1. Support Google extract view in landscape mode.
2. Add the prompt when adding none word into personal dictionary.
3. Show .ru/.ro/.nl on Russian/Romanian/Dutch URL keyboard.
4. Enable Handwriting manual submit mode.
5. Fix Zhuyin “ㄦ” cannot be typed issue.
by pbriden via Featured Articles
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