Switch Language on Keyboard

[jfbaro]

Hi,

Most SMS I send are in Portuguese (Brazil), is there any way I could set the stock keyboard to suggest Portuguese words instead of English?

I have set it to Portuguese (as a general setting), but the suggestions on the keyboard are still in English.

I would like to have the general language to be English and be able to change the language for the keyboard as needed.

Sorry if that's a basic question.

Regards

 

[KlaymenDK]

AFAIK, the stock Android keyboard follows the OS language setting. (As I prefer the OS to be in English even though I'm in Denmark, the stock dictionary fights my Danish typing.)

What I did was to install an additional keyboard (Scandinavian Keyboard in my case, but you could use any other) -- because this allows you to set a different language for that other keyboard. In this way, you can change your "Input Method" on a field to switch between dictionaries (and keyboard layouts and features ).

There may be keyboards out there that support several dictionary languages, but I haven't found any (that met my needs).

Good luck!

 

[shrink57]

Hi,

Most SMS I send are in Portuguese (Brazil), is there any way I could set the stock keyboard to suggest Portuguese words instead of English?

I have set it to Portuguese (as a general setting), but the suggestions on the keyboard are still in English.

I would like to have the general language to be English and be able to change the language for the keyboard as needed.

Sorry if that's a basic question.

Regards

Smart Keyboard has a downloadable Portuguese dictionary for their keyboard. Another keyboard with Portuguese keyboard support (supports Portuguese characters) is AnySoftKeyboard. Both of these are available in the market.

 

[Lombas]

In the iPhone the keyboard and the system languages are separated, so this is not a problem... but in the Android it is.

Installing a new keyboard with a different layout and/or different language solves the problem, allowing the phone to be in language A and for the text typed and the suggestions to be in language B.

But the problem is that the original Android keyboard for the language B is awesome and has great word suggestions.. and all the keyboards in the marketplace for language B are crap.

So, is there a way to copy the original Android keyboard in language B and install it as a different keyboard?

Thanks

 

[Pedanius]

This thread is old but this might help:
There's a keyboard layout called "Brazilian". Maybe that's what you're looking for.
- A guy that just spent a few minutes figuring that out

 

[KBU2]

Hi,

Most SMS I send are in Portuguese (Brazil), is there any way I could set the stock keyboard to suggest Portuguese words instead of English?

I have set it to Portuguese (as a general setting), but the suggestions on the keyboard are still in English.

I would like to have the general language to be English and be able to change the language for the keyboard as needed.

Sorry if that's a basic question.



Most SMS I send are in Portuguese (Brazil), is there any way I could set the stock keyboard to suggest Portuguese words instead of English?

I have set it to Portuguese (as a general setting), but the suggestions on the keyboard are still in English.

I would like to have the general language to be English and be able to change the language for the keyboard as needed.

Sorry if that's a basic question.

Regards

You can just use Google Gboard to switch keyboards and languages. Just tick the global on Gboard and it will highlight at the bottom to add language keyboard for many languages from A to whatever language is closest to Z.

 

[KBU2]

I'm sure if check you can find one that fits your needs