The Tecla App is an input method for the Android platform, this is a special kind of application that integrates tightly with the operating system enabling access to most of its functions.
Tecla supports wireless control of Android, via an on-screen keyboard, directly from a powered wheelchair or adapted switches connected to a Tecla Shield.
Features:
- Provides access to the whole device, not just to apps written for it.
- It scans in full-color on the built-in on-screen keyboard, so you don’t have to be looking at a separate screen.
- Affordable, end-to-end, standards compliant solution: Use your powered wheelchair or adapted switches to control your Android device!
- Google Voice Actions integrated: Control the device and enter text using your voice!
- Scanning: Step, auto or inverse scanning with fully configurable scan speed.
- Completely usable via a single switch (and up to 4 switches) with auto-scan or reverse-scan. That means, no switch gestures required (e.g., double click, press and hold, timed sequences).
- Any switch event from Tecla Shield wakes up and unlocks the device (no need for someone to swipe the lock for you before being able to use independently).
- Any switch event from Tecla Shield answers an incoming call.
- Full-screen switch mode: Use the entire screen as a single switch
Download
The latest release version is 0.6 beta. There are a few different ways to install Tecla Access App on your Android-powered device:
- Scan the QR code on the right with your Android phone or
- Visit the Android Market on your device and search for “tecla” or
- If you are visiting this page on your Android phone, you can:
- touch here to install or
- touch the QR code on the right.
- Alternatively, if your device does not have access to the market, you can download the apk file from here and follow these instructions to install it manually.
Scan or touch this QR code to download The Tecla Access App to your Android phone
Getting Started
In this 12 minute tutorial, Komodo’s Technical Lead, Jorge Silva, shows how to quickly configure the Tecla App to control an Android device using the entire screen as a single-switch. When connected to the Tecla Shield, the Tecla App allows control of the device using your adapted switches or the driving controls in your powered wheelchair!
