How to add an extra language input to Android?

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Android Problem Overview

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?

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Solution 1 - Android

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.

Solution 2 - Android

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.

Solution 3 - Android

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

Solution 4 - Android

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.

Solution 5 - Android

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.

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