Lazy? Don’t you think that’s a bit of a stretch?
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not at all. The sdk + instructions were freely available on github. Greg is a one man operation and was able to implement it in Drafts. There was really no excuse for any text based app to not provide TE support. It’s a shame now that apps can’t use TE Enhanced to promote themselves above their competition as the TE Keyboard works everywhere including external keyboards on the iPad.
The last time I checked developers were free to do what they want with their apps. Just because the code was on GitHub doesn’t mean that it was easy to implement or that it fit into where those developers were going with their product road maps. On another note, that does beg the question; since it’s so easy, did you do it? Post the link to your app…
Apologies for hurting your feelings. 
link to your app?
With all due respect, that’s nonsense.
I disagree… and apparently a lot of great devs did also. but why talk about the past? Smile took the devs out of the loop. Now all apps have TE capability for people who want or need it.
Yep, all those ‘great devs’ who did the extra work did it for nothing, and may now need to do work to remove it. And those ‘lazy devs’ who did nothing can now reap the benefits.
But saying devs are “lazy” and there was “no excuse” to do extra work to support a niche product is nonsense, wether you agree or not. It’s easy to spend other people’s time and effort.
And if there really were “a lot of great devs” who implemented this, why did Smile see the need to change?
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No I’m indifferent. Your baseless claim on the ease and Necessity of integrating the app and then calling those who don’t “lazy” is absurd. I probably should have just kept quiet once I saw your explanation. My bad; carry on…
Edit: I don’t have an app. I didn’t justify it being trivially easy based on some code being on GitHub. Think how mindlessly ridiculous that comment is. “Code on GitHub? 
Can’t be lazy…. Quick! Get it in the next release!!!”
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its not a niche product but by all means continue to froth…
please continue to go on and on about my post. I edited it when I realized how sad I made you.
I don’t understand. Why are you trying to make it look like I said something that was never said? No one was “sad” about your post, it was just wasn’t based in reality. Just like your last post.
A couple alternatives that haven’t been mentioned:
- Espanso, if you are looking for a free solution that works on Mac and PC (but not iOS)
- Keyboard Maestro, which of course only works on Mac
Rocket Typist is coming out with an iOS version this month (October). I’ve been testing it, and it works really well across macOS and iOS. It’s a keyboard like TextExpander 7. I don’t do a lot of macros though, so not sure how it compares there to TextExpander.
are you in the TestFlight for iOS? Do they have an invite page? The macOS version is good alternative for Setapp people. $20 to unlock the pro features.
I am. I emailed the developer a while ago and just got access this week. I think the plan is to launch soon, but you could try emailing as well to see if he still needs people to kick the tires. 
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- The CSV files have quote marks that will mess up the import into Alfred. Use a text editor (like BBEdit) to delete all ’ characters.
Sorry about that (that’s my GitHub account) - I completed my TE-> Alfred migration about five years ago & haven’t maintained anything. Glad you found a workaround.
I’ve been prototyping an iOS app which allow creation of new Alfred snippets from iOS, and have a custom iOS keyboard to expand Alfred snippets on iOS. At this point it requires Dropbox. Would that interest you?
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I use a script ( Sync macOS Shortcuts to Alfred Snippets) to get the keyboard shortcucts I use on iOS into Alfred snippets, and run the script daily (in my case, set up through the Lingon app)
It’s one-way, though: changing or adding Alfred snippets doesn’t translate to updating iOS/mac keyboard shortcuts
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That would definitely interest me! I was hoping Alfred would get around to creating an iOS app one of these days, but this would be great
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Glad to hear from the author! Of course only need to use it once, but might you fix the quote problem? I don’t write much on my iPhone so am not concerned with dealing with shortcuts there.
Typinator is really, really excellent. Particularly the new release. I’m really happy with it. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why TextExpander gets so much love on MPU and Typinator is largely ignored. I have used both and Typinator is far and away the better option for me, particularly when you consider TextExpander is a subscription service.
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