TextExpander touch SDK Now Available

SmileOnMyMac is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TextExpander touch Software Development Kit (SDK). This consists of a free TextExpander engine library and sample code demonstrating how third party developers can add TextExpander functionality to their iPhone applications.

TextExpander is most useful when it’s available for text entry everywhere, as it is on Mac OS X. Given the current restrictions of the iPhone SDK, it’s not possible to make TextExpander touch work that way. We’ve focused on making TextExpander touch work well for composing text, then sending it directly to Mail, Twitter clients, or via copy & paste to any other application.

It is possible for other iPhone applications to offer TextExpander functionality. When a TextExpander touch user uses an application which supports the TextExpander engine, their snippets will expand when they enter their abbreviations in that application.

We believe this is a win-win for both TextExpander touch and for iPhone application developers. Having additional applications with integrated TextExpander functionality makes TextExpander touch more useful on the iPhone. Applications which support the TextExpander engine make text entry easier for their users.

We welcome feedback from developers, and we encourage you to download the TextExpander touch SDK. Please let us know if you’re going to use the SDK so that we can keep you apprised of updates.

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8 Responses to “TextExpander touch SDK Now Available”

  1. Jarin Udom says:
    August 25, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    This is awesome, gonna put this in our iPhone apps ASAP :)

  2. Milind says:
    August 26, 2009 at 3:47 am

    Awesome news. Any developers who implement this in their apps, do send us a note at our PR email address.

    Milind Alvares
    Smoking Apples

  3. Colin says:
    September 23, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I’ve been nudging SimplyTweet’s developer (great guy, btw) to implement this. He seems interested/receptive to the idea. I think any Twitter or any other text-oriented app that implements this will have an immediate edge over the competition.

  4. Brendan Duddridge says:
    December 2, 2009 at 2:22 am

    I just integrated Text Expander touch into Tap Forms. Wow, that was easy!

    Thanks for a great SDK!

    Brendan

  5. XCool says:
    January 14, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    I’ve just added TextExpander touch support for iType2Go!

    iType2Go Free with TextExpander support has just been approved for sale and shall be available soon in the iTunes App Store.

    iType2Go Pro update with TextExpander is now in review and shall be available soon.

    Loving the simply great SDK!

    XCool

    iType2Go Pro – http://bit.ly/itype2go
    iType2Go Free – http://bit.ly/itype2go-free

  6. Cameron Desautels says:
    March 25, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    I added TextExpander touch support to Raconteur within a single sitting at Dallas NSCoder Night last night—very easy.

    Version 1.2 of Raconteur, with TextExpander touch support, has been submitted to Apple for approval and should be available soon.

    Raconteur — http://teaapps.com/raconteur/

  7. Jean says:
    March 25, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Cameron: Great news. Send me an email at jean@smileonmymac.com when it’s approved and we will add it to our list at http://bit.ly/telist.

  8. Alco Blom says:
    May 10, 2010 at 3:26 am

    I’ve just added TextExpander touch support to SMS touch, the text messaging app for iPhone OS.

    Version 1.2 of SMS touch, with TextExpander touch support, has been submitted to Apple for approval and should be available within a couple of days.

    Thanks for this cool SDK!

    Alco Blom – http://www.smstouch.info

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