Download Velocity from the Android Market. After the download is completed, the Velocity icon will be displayed on your phone's app menu. Tap on the icon to start the installation process.
Once you tap the Velocity icon, the screen will display the Velocity license agreement. Tap on the "Accept" button to continue installation.
Once you accept the Velocity License, tap on the "Select Language" button and choose any one of the offered languages. The selected language will be downloaded if you have an Internet connection and set as the default language for Velocity.
Note: You must select at least one language.↑ Go to top
Once you select the language, tap on the "Enable" button to continue.
A note will appear. Please tap on the "OK" button to continue.
Tap on the "Velocity" check button.
Here an Android warning message appears: the input method may be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data like passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
However, Velocity doesn't store any personal data such as your password, credit card numbers, etc.
Press "OK" to continue.↑ Go to top
Press the "Back" button of your Android phone to continue installation.↑ Go to top
Tap on the "Set" button to display the input method picker.
Tap on the "Velocity" radio button to set it as your default input method.
Here are some points to understand before using Velocity: ↑ Go to top
Velocity creates a list of candidates for each key pressed by the user. The options are displayed in the candidate view which is placed above the keyboard. Tap on the word you wish to select. Otherwise continue typing to refine the suggestions.
Note: If the user presses the space key then the typed text is committed (irrespective of the words in the candidate view) and space is provided after the text. ↑ Go to top
Velocity helps the user to complete the entire sentence (i.e. phrase completion) by giving predictions for the next word. That word can be selected by tapping on the candidate view.
Note: This will be seen only after some learning has happened.
Velocity allows new words to be entered with ease.
A new word can be easily added by tapping it from the candidate view. Not tapping the new word prevents it from getting added to the custom dictionary, thus enabling the user to selectively save desired words.
For extended characters, do a long key press on the specific key. For special characters, use the symbol key (denoted by "?123").
Here are some tips to know while using Velocity: ↑ Go to top
Long key press of backspace (delete key) to delete entire word. ↑ Go to top
Swipe Up: To change the keyboard layout from alphabetic to numeric (123).
Swipe Right: For case-sensitive languages swipe right to change case;
For case-insensitive languages swipe right to change keyboard.
Swipe Down: To close the keyboard. ↑ Go to top
Long key press of 123 key to select settings option.
Long key press of space key to select change language. If Velocity has only 2 languages then the language will be changed automatically.
Up,down,right,left navigational keys are added in Numeric (123) keyboard layout.
When Velocity is opened, the screen will display the following options:
Tap on this option to view the options available in the "Language Settings" screen.↑ Go to top
Allows the user to enable/disable the key tone and vibration mode while pressing the keyboard keys and selecting the word from the candidates.
Allows the user to enable or disable the spelling correction mode. If enabled, Velocity will suggest spelling corrections for the text entered in the candidate list.
Allows the user to select the theme for keyboard.
Allows the user to copy data to/from external storage memory (sdcard).
This option provides information about Velocity. ↑ Go to top
When this option is opened, the screen will display the following options:
Shows the list of languages downloaded to the device. The user can select any one of these languages as the current language. ↑ Go to top
Sets the language information to the default.
The submenu allows selection of the current language, the custom dictionary
(used to store words frequently used by the user that do not belong to the language dictionary), or both.
Note: The training done (if any) on the data will be lost.
This option shows the list of additional languages that the user can download to the device by tapping on the desired language. ↑ Go to top
This option allows the user to remove any language installed on the device (for Velocity). Tap on the language that you wish to remove from the device. ↑ Go to top
Allows the user to enable the soft keyboard view even if the device has a hard keyboard. This option appears only if the device has a hard keyboard and a language with a non-latin script (e.g. Hindi, Tamil, etc.) is selected.
Allows the user to select the layouts (e.g. QWERTY, AZERTY, etc.) for keyboard. This option appears if current language has support for multiple keyboard layouts.
You may get a License Error the first time you start the application. This happens if the application is not licensed or the device does not have Internet connectivity to verify the licensing information. Please ensure that the Internet connection is stable and that you have purchased the application, otherwise Velocity will not show any word suggestions.
You may get a Network Error when you "Select Language" or when you "Add more languages" to the application. This happens if the application does not have Internet connectivity to download languages. Please ensure that the Internet connection is stable, otherwise languages will not be downloaded.