How to add an extra language input to Android

Question

Is it possible to add extra languages to Android  My current Android phone only supports English and Chinese language input  I would like to have Dutch also  as I can use it for word completion  The question on top of that is  how to switch easily between these languages in the text input  keyboard  GUI

User · Answer

Don t agree with post above  I have a Hero with only English available and I want Spanish   I installed MoreLocale 2  and it has lots of different languages  Dutch among them   I choose Spanish  Sense UI restarted and EVERYTHING in my phone changed to Spanish  menus  settings  etc  The keyboard predictive text defaulted to Spanish and started suggesting words in Spanish  This means  somewhere within the OS there is a Spanish dictionary hidden and MoreLocale made it available   The problem is that English is still the only option available in keyboard input language so I can switch to English but can t switch back to Spanish unless I restart Sense UI  which takes a couple of minutes so not a very practical solution   Still looking for an easier way to do it so please help

User · Answer

On android 2 2 you can input multiple language and switch by sliding on the spacebar  Go in the settings under  language and keyboard  and then  Android Keyboard    Input language    Hope this helps

User · Answer

Sliding the space bar only works if you gave more then one input language selected   In that case the space bar will also indicate the selected language and show arrows to indicate Sliding will change selection   This is easy fast and changes the dictionary at the same time   First response seems the mist accurate   Regards

User · Answer

I just found Scandinavian Keyboard as a fine solution to this problem  It do also have English and German keyboard  but neither Dutch nor Spanish - but I guess they could be added  And I guess there is other alternatives out there

User · Answer

I don t know about sliding the space bar   I have a small box on the left of my keyboard that indicates which language is selected   when english is selected it shows the words EN with a small microphone on top   Being that I also have spanish as one of my languages  I just tap that button and it swithces back and forth from spanish to english

[android] How to add an extra language input to Android?

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