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Textspansion

1393 Designs Productivity

Access your commonly typed phrases with Android’s first “text expansion” app!

Rating
2.8
156 ratings
Downloads
10K+
on Google Play
Price
Free
No in-app purchases
Updated
Jul 24
2012 · v2.1.1
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About Textspansion

Access a database of your commonly typed phrases with Android’s first “text expansion” app!

Whether you’re browsing the web or writing an email, you can access Textspansion by long-pressing your device’s search button to access your database. Clicking on the desired phrase will immediately copy it into your device’s clipboard and send you back to what you were working on. From there you can paste it where you like! Store anything you like into the app that you want to be accessible!

Future features:
- Encrypting the exported xml file
- Support for Ice Cream Sandwich
- Gesture recognition to open the app
- Opens a dialog on top of the app you were on previously

What's up with the name? Textspansion is a portmanteau of "text" and "expansion". It was originally inspired by TextExpander (by Smile Software, LLC.). Due to OS restrictions, we can't have our app actively detect keyboard input. The "short name" was inspired to be the text snippet that the app recognizes to expand.

About us: 1393 Designs is a small group of friends (currently only 2) who make things to fill a void in our daily lives.

What’s new

Version 2.1.1 · Updated July 24, 2012

Be prepared! A huge UI update is in the works! V.2.1.1: Fixed a bug where the snippet textbox would push the okay button away when adding/editing a snippet Added a button to more easily view tokens V.2.1: Added date and time tokens! Now %x will turn into today's date. Check out the new tutorial to find the full list. V.2.0.3: Added another option to import. Can import txt files formatted like: [Short][Long][Short][Long]... etc.

User reviews

Hasnah Abdullah
Hasnah Abdullah
Good
A Google user
A Google user
OK, it's not a true text expander, nor a predictive text app, nor a text shortcuts handler, nor a clipboard manager. It's a snippet vault, with an additional clipboard managing capability. But a snippet vault in the first place. It's kind of a clipboard filler, but it works fine. I use it as an alternative in Androi...
A Google user
A Google user
Thanks for making this app, it's life saving 👑
A Google user
A Google user
It's really really good. I just wish there was a way for me to like login and save my data somewhere so that even after I accidentally uninstall the app or my phone undergoes factor reset settings.
A Google user
A Google user
Easy to use. Excellent. Free for now. Thanks. 🌷
A Google user
A Google user
Use daily on my Samsung Note 4 and now on galaxy tab S2 9.7. Always works and easy to use. Like another reviewer, I exported data list from my phone to my tablet via email and data automatically loaded; excellent undocumented feature. On galaxy tab S2 9.7 no menu 3 dots is available but holding the lit back icon b...

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