Set Up Typing Hero

The first time you open Typing Hero, it guides you through setup. Setup ends with your first Text Snippet working.

Start setup

1. Open Typing Hero.
2. Tap Get started.
3. On Privacy at a glance, tap Continue.

Give Typing Hero access

The Use your replies in other apps page asks for two kinds of access:

• Run in the background stops Android from closing Typing Hero to save battery.
• The accessibility service lets Typing Hero detect and replace Keywords in any text field.

When you turn on the service, Android warns that it gives the app full control of your device. Android shows this warning for every accessibility service.

Typing Hero uses the service only to detect Keywords, expand Templates, add text you copy to Clipboard, and run Actions, all on your phone.

Android's own screens and labels can differ by phone.

1. Tap Allow.
2. When Android asks to let the app always run in the background, tap Allow.
3. Tap Open Settings.
4. On Allow accessibility service use?, tap Allow.
5. In Android's accessibility settings, tap Typing Hero. Don't choose Typing Hero (retiring soon).
6. Turn on Use Typing Hero.
7. When Android asks to allow full control of your device, tap Allow.
8. If Android doesn't bring you back to Typing Hero, go back to it.
9. When both steps show a check mark, tap Continue.

If you tap Decline in step 4, Typing Hero closes, because it can't work without the service. Open it again to continue.

If Advanced Protection is on, Typing Hero's accessibility service stays off. Step 3 shows Continue instead of Open Settings. After you allow accessibility service use, Typing Hero doesn't open Android's accessibility settings. Setup skips Try it, so it doesn't save the ,thx Text Snippet.

See When Advanced Protection is on.

Try a Keyword

The Try it page saves a sample reply as your first Text Snippet, with the Keyword ,thx.

1. Keep the sample reply, or edit it. To start from another sample, tap Use another example. Its Keyword changes with it.
2. Tap Continue.
3. Type ,thx in the field, or tap its suggestion.

The Keyword is replaced with your reply, and the page shows It works.

Configure Suggestions and Quick Access

Below the field, the Try it page asks two questions, one at a time. Each one turns a feature on or off.

1. Show Suggestions while typing? Suggestions show matching Text Snippets while you type, so you can tap one instead of typing the whole Keyword. This starts as Yes.
2. Show Quick Access in notifications? Quick Access adds a notification that opens your Text Snippets, Clipboard, and Actions. If you choose Yes and notifications are off, Android 13 and later asks you to allow them. If you don't allow them, the answer changes to No.

To change your answers later, open the Settings tab. Suggestions are under Suggestions, and the Quick Access notification is under Notifications and vibration.

Finish setup

The last page may offer Premium and free trials to new users.

A free trial with Subscription lets you use every Premium feature, such as unlimited Text Snippets, Form, and Actions, before you pay. You can cancel anytime in Google Play.

To compare plans first, see Choose Lifetime or Subscription. To keep the free version, tap Continue free with 20 Text Snippets.

Typing Hero then opens the Text Snippets tab, labeled Text, which lists your ,thx Text Snippet.