[Q] Change keyboard on HDX?

[kschang]

I review Android keyboards as a hobby and I was itching to try them on the HDX when I realized that FireOS is hardcoded to have only ONE keyboard... the built-in one.

Is there a way to get a third-party keyboard onto HDX and working?

 

[Montisaquadeis]

Sideloaded keyboards work just fine. Sideload one then go to Language/Keyboard then click on Keyboard Language and you can choose which keyboards to use. I have mine set to English (united states), GO Keyboard, and Sixaxis Controller since I was trying to get a PS3 controller working but it doesn't see the controller even after I type the mac address into the Pair tool on the PC.

 

[fierce_brake]

swiftkeyboard and thumbkeayboard seem to be working fine... only thing is that, on landscape , the nav bar takes away quite some space out from the screen, so you end up having problems trying to reach the rightmost keys...

 

[_Alex_]

Looks like you need to disable navbar as full screen keyboard conflicts with swype and swiftkey in landscape

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[dragonsoul84]

Not All Work

I just got my 7" HDX for Christmas and first thing I had to do was change the stock keyboard. I use one called Jellybean keyboard on my phone, but when I sideloaded it to my kindle and activated it, it doesn't come up English. It looks to be some middle eastern language, but when going into settings to set language for that keyboard it crashes. I'll have to try one some more to find a working one, probably a more mainstream like GO. Thanks for the assistance in finding where to enable new keyboards.

 

[kschang]

Got it. The newly installed keyboard would be hiding amongst the dozens of languages.

Fleksy appears by itself.

Swift Key or Google keyboard would be listed as English -- United States or English (US) or some such choices

Enable them and trial and error. Fire OS hides the keyboard details.