There are higher-quality voices available for download.


There are two background notification types: notifications, which are the things in the icon bar, and toasts, which appear over top of the screen, and go away on their own. So there is a way to do that, even if the app doesn't provide it as an option. You're at least in part talking about built-in apps, so that doesn't push the blame elsewhere; I'm just letting you know that there is another option available to developers.


Or the default Android keyboard, in my experience. I never could adapt to Swype or its clones.


Actually, only the executable has to be on the internal storage. Data can exist anywhere. This is at the discretion of the developer, though.