Xposed Module: Keyboard Suggestions Blacklist

[nick.spacek]

Hi folks,

This is a little module that started out as a PoC but turned into something that I find useful. I use swiping on the Google Keyboard and found that sometimes it would detect words or offer suggestions that I would never type. I had previously used Swype and so not being able to remove suggested words drove me crazy.

This Xposed module adds blacklisting to the Google Keyboard.

Features:

• Long-press on suggested words from the keyboard interface
• Add words to the blacklist through the module itself

The project is open source, you can view it on GitHub.

I'd prefer bugs/feature requests to go into the GitHub tracker, but if all else fails you can get in touch with me through XDA for support/bugs/feature requests.

There's also a Reddit thread if you're into that.

XDA:DevDB Information
Keyboard Suggestions Blacklist, a App for the Google Nexus 4

Contributors
nick.spacek

Version Information
Status: Stable

Created 2013-12-13
Last Updated 2013-12-13

 

[Lucas00]

Found this the same day i was trying to delete words..There is no other way really? I was swyping wrong words everytime


Thanks for you module. Some words still there, and i cant delete by long-press, but its really better now.

 

[nick.spacek]

Can you explain the problems you're having a little more detailed? When you long-press, you should get a Toast message saying that the word was added. Are you seeing that?

It currently doesn't delete the word that was entered though. Is that what you mean?

What phone/ROM are you on?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

 

[mauam]

Great work, keep up:good:

 

[Lucas00]

Can you explain the problems you're having a little more detailed? When you long-press, you should get a Toast message saying that the word was added. Are you seeing that?

It currently doesn't delete the word that was entered though. Is that what you mean?

What phone/ROM are you on?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Wait a minute... this is suposed to work with N4 only? I tought it was working but i dont think so. all words i black-listed still showing in my suggestions. My way of black-listing was adding through the app itself.

I dont see any toast message when i long-press a suggested word.

Im running Omnirom 4.3 in my S-Advance.

 

[nick.spacek]

It should work with other phones and Roms, but hooking methods by name and signature is iffy. It could be that a particular ROM has changed the package or class name. It's hard to say.

At this point, I personally have only tried on vanilla 4.4 on a Nexus 4, but I know at least one person has it working fine on Note 2 or 3.

I'll have to add some error handling logic, in the case that something unexpected is encountered. I'll log some bugs on the GitHub that you can track.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

 

[kennyboyismr47]

Google keyboard has had a couple of updates and this no longer works, any chance of an update?

 

[nick.spacek]

Google keyboard has had a couple of updates and this no longer works, any chance of an update?

Sure I'll take a look at it this week if I get a chance, thanks for letting me know!

 

[kennyboyismr47]

Sure I'll take a look at it this week if I get a chance, thanks for letting me know!

Awesome thank you.

 

[kennyboyismr47]

Sure I'll take a look at it this week if I get a chance, thanks for letting me know!

Hey mate did you get a chance to look at this? New keyboard update again but don't think there's a lot of difference this time.

 

[Elluel]

Hey mate did you get a chance to look at this? New keyboard update again but don't think there's a lot of difference this time.

Really want this to work, too.

 

[nick.spacek]

Hey mate did you get a chance to look at this? New keyboard update again but don't think there's a lot of difference this time.

Sorry, I have not. I really would like to get this working but I won't have the time this week for sure.

 

[Zenzic]

Can this work with the android keyboard, not the playstore Google one? At the moment i doesn't appear to work and I could do with removing these American spellings from my keyboard.

 

[nick.spacek]

Can this work with the android keyboard, not the playstore Google one? At the moment i doesn't appear to work and I could do with removing these American spellings from my keyboard.

I'd like to build in support for multiple keyboards soon. I am working now to fix it for the Google Keyboard first, then I'll look at the Android one.

 

[nick.spacek]

I have it working again with the latest Google Keyboard. I refactored the code some so in theory it should be a little easier to add support for other versions of the keyboards. I should have a new build up before Monday.

 

[Elluel]

I have it working again with the latest Google Keyboard. I refactored the code some so in theory it should be a little easier to add support for other versions of the keyboards. I should have a new build up before Monday.

Looking forward to it [emoji1]

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

[nick.spacek]

Released now, let me know how it's working!

 

[pl1997]

Hello, any chance to get this module updated ?

Thanks