N.B: The setup and usage sections of these instructions have now been superseded by the Instructions in the ZetaType Information App that comes with the ZetaType keyboard. Please refer to this for up to date setup and usage instructions.
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Installation:
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To use a new keyboard of any type on Android please do the following.
1. Go to the Android market and download your keyboard. For ZetaTYPE search for "zeta" and select and install ZetaTYPE from the results. Please be sure to read any instructions.
2. Once installed you need to enable the keyboard.
- From the home screen press the Menu button.
- Now select Settings.
- On Android 1.6 or 1.5 select "Locale & text". On Android 2.0 select "Language and Keyboard". (Software keyboards are not available on versions of Android before 1.5)
- Scroll down and locate "ZetaType" from the list of available keyboards. Select it for usage.
- Optionally there is a Zetatype settings dropdown which you can use to turn on and off certain features (for example, Error Correction).
- Return to the home screen.
3. Now you need to switch to the ZetaTYPE keyboard.
- To do this go in to any application that requires text input.
- Select a text input box.
- Long press in the text input box and a menu of options will appear. One of these options should be "Input Method".
- Select "Input Method". A list of the available and enabled input methods will appear.
- Select "ZetaType".
And that should be it! You can repeat the steps above at any time to switch to another input method or keyboard.
Usage:
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Zeta is constantly being tuned in it usage but currently Zeta works as follows.
The generate a character you need to do the following
- On one of the 3 main (blue, red and yellow) keys you need to either tap to generate the character in the centre or slide diagonally, left, right, up or down towards the the relevant character on the key. From a computer you can watch a Flash demonstration of this at http://www.zetatype.com/demo.html.
- To make a space or delete you can make a long slide across all 3 keys from left to right or right to left respectively.
- Also you can tap the convenience keys at the bottom of the keyboard to generate a space of delete.
- To access the Number/Symbol or Capitalised keyboard views you need to slide up from the bottom of the screen from the delete (for Capitals) and from the space (for Numbers / Symbols). A double slide up will lock the keyboard view. One more slide up will reset it to the default lowercase keyboard view.
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I'm trying to use it on the hero but the predictive feature doesn't work - which is a big deal. This is even after I turned it on and off.
ReplyDeleteHi Augustusloi. Thanks for the feedback. Text prediction is not yet included in Zeta. We do have a form of error correction but this does not function as text prediction does. It learns habitual sliding mistakes a user makes and adjusts the size of sliding zones to compensate.
ReplyDeleteText prediction is being worked on and is high on our list of upcoming features. We are hoping that a version of text prediction will be available within the next few weeks (but we won't rush it if more time is needed).