diff --git a/uiautomator2/__init__.py b/uiautomator2/__init__.py
index 36f9671..6ded921 100644
--- a/uiautomator2/__init__.py
+++ b/uiautomator2/__init__.py
@@ -584,6 +584,23 @@ def set_clipboard(self, text, label=None):
             label: User-visible label for the clip data.
         '''
         self.jsonrpc.setClipboard(label, text)
+    
+    def clear_text(self):
+        """ clear input text """
+        self.jsonrpc.clearInputText()
+    
+    def send_keys(self, text: str, clear: bool = False):
+        """
+        send text to focused input area
+        
+        Args:
+            text: input text
+            clear: clear text before input
+        """
+        if clear:
+            self.clear_text()
+        self.clipboard = text
+        self.jsonrpc.pasteClipboard()
 
     def keyevent(self, v):
         """
diff --git a/uiautomator2/_input.py b/uiautomator2/_input.py
index f867067..a753077 100644
--- a/uiautomator2/_input.py
+++ b/uiautomator2/_input.py
@@ -96,20 +96,8 @@ def _must_broadcast(self, action: str, extras: Dict[str, str] = {}):
         if result.code != BORADCAST_RESULT_OK:
             raise AdbBroadcastError(f"broadcast {action} failed: {result.data}")
 
-    def send_keys(self, text: str, clear: bool = False):
-        """
-        Args:
-            text (str): text to set
-            clear (bool): clear before set text
-        """
-        if clear:
-            self.clear_text()
-        if re.match(r'^[-+*\/_a-zA-Z0-9 ]+$', text):
-            self.shell(['input', 'text', text.replace(' ', '%s')])
-        else:
-            self.__send_keys_with_ime(text)
-
-    def __send_keys_with_ime(self, text: str):
+    @deprecated(reason="use send_keys instead")
+    def _send_keys_with_ime(self, text: str):
         try:
             self.set_input_ime()
             btext = text.encode('utf-8')
@@ -152,7 +140,8 @@ def send_action(self, code: Union[str, int] = None):
         else:
             self._must_broadcast('ADB_KEYBOARD_SMART_ENTER')
 
-    def clear_text(self):
+    @deprecated(reason="use clear_text() instead")
+    def _clear_text_with_ime(self):
         """ clear text
         Raises:
             EnvironmentError
diff --git a/uiautomator2/abstract.py b/uiautomator2/abstract.py
index 867a997..8f52733 100644
--- a/uiautomator2/abstract.py
+++ b/uiautomator2/abstract.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import abc
 from typing import Any, List, NamedTuple, Tuple, Union
+import typing
 import adbutils
 from PIL import Image
 from uiautomator2._proto import Direction
@@ -41,6 +42,12 @@ def shell(self, cmdargs: Union[List[str], str]) -> ShellResponse:
     @abc.abstractmethod
     def adb_device(self) -> adbutils.AdbDevice:
         pass
+    
+    @property
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def jsonrpc(self) -> typing.Any:
+        pass
+    
 
 class AbstractXPathBasedDevice(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
     @abc.abstractmethod
diff --git a/uiautomator2/assets/sync.sh b/uiautomator2/assets/sync.sh
index 46efedc..8e9cb1e 100755
--- a/uiautomator2/assets/sync.sh
+++ b/uiautomator2/assets/sync.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -e
 
 APK_VERSION=$(cat ../version.py| grep apk_version | awk '{print $NF}')
 APK_VERSION=${APK_VERSION//[\"\']}
-JAR_VERSION="0.1.3"
+JAR_VERSION="0.1.4"
 
 cd "$(dirname $0)"