![]() We also retired MobileMe sync, as Apple retired the MobileMe service. We added default values for fill-ins, the ability to expand snippets when filling a fill-in, and the ability to switch apps while filling a fill-in. We introduced three new types: multi-line text fields, popup menus, and optional text sections. TextExpander 4.0, released in June 2012, focused on enhanced fill-in support. We introduced single line fill-ins, Dropbox sync, capitalization correction, and hotkeys to create new snippets and to edit the last expanded snippet. Version 3, released in March 2010, marked TextExpander’s escape from the confines of System Preferences into a full-fledged application. Now, we’re able to make basic TextExpander expansion available in any app. ![]() The real game-changer on iOS was when Apple introduced custom keyboards in iOS 8. Today, some of the best productivity apps for iOS, including OmniFocus, Drafts, and Bear, include native support for TextExpander. On one of our BART rides into San Francisco, Peter suggested developing an SDK so that third party apps could add support for TextExpander directly in their apps. He attended WWDC 2009 and stayed at our house. One of the greatest side effects to our acquisition of TextExpander is that I became good friends with Peter Maurer. Initially, it could only expand snippets in the Notes section of the app. We built TextExpander for iPhone, which debuted on August 26, 2009. I wasn’t entirely sure they were joking, so we got on it. At our WWDC Smile party, Dave and Roustem from AgileBits, makers of 1Password, told us that if we did not produce TextExpander for iPhone, they would. Check it out in all of its stripey, System Preference pane glory, and note the example email address from aol.com: TextExpander 2.0Īt WWDC in 2009, Apple announced support for cut/copy/paste in iOS 3. TextExpander 2.0, released in October 2007, began to flesh out the product, adding: snippet groups, group import, hotkeys, printing, AppleScript snippets, and MobileMe □ sync. But, that app’s updates weren’t reliable, so we decided if we were going to have an app that our company needed, we could make it ourselves. One of the ways we found to help was through the use of a text expansion tool. We were a very small team at that time, and having to be full time developers and full time suport and run a company was challenging. One of the instigating factors of producing TextExpander was, in fact, our need of it, similar to PDFpen. Our original blog post does a good job of telling the origin story. Smile shipped TextExpander 1.3 on May 23, 2006. Originally called Textpander, it was developed by Peter Maurer, now of Many Tricks. TextExpander was Smile’s first acquisition. In this series we’re looking back at some of our history. On June 12, 2018, Smile celebrates our 15th birthday.
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