topic Re: keyboard layout question in XZ Series

keyboard layout question

Wastingtime — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:43:56 GMT

Is there a way to change the layout on the keyboard on my xz so it looks like the old one on my z5? Mainly so the alt page with The numbers have the old layout

Re: keyboard

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:51:17 GMT

/t5/Xperia-XZ/Xperia-keyboard-on-XZ/td-p/1181342

Re: keyboard layout question

Emir1 — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:24:04 GMT

Hi @Wastingtime, welcome to our community!

I am sorry to say that Xperia XZ uses a different keyboard than Xperia Z5. Z5 uses our previous Xperia Keyboard, while your Xperia XZ uses SwiftKey. Unfortunately, Swiftkey has a different layout as you have noticed, and I am sorry to say that there is no setting to make the alternative keys use the same layout as Xperia Keyboard to my knowledge.

I understand you correctly in that you want there to be number rows at the top, and then alternative keys such as @#*" and so forth beneath? To my knowledge there's no setting to make it identical to Xperia Keyboard.

If you dislike the layout of Swiftkey however, you may try some other keyboard alternatives from Google Play Store to try to see if you can find one which suits you more!

Let me know how it went!

Re: keyboard layout question

Sant_XZR — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:28:10 GMT

I installed Google keyboard, which is similar to previous Xperia Keyboard.

Re: keyboard layout question

Emir1 — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:43:57 GMT

@Sant_XZR that is one of the beauties of Android, you can experiment and find the one app which suits you!