Note: You must have a license for Keyman Engine for Android in order to access the resources documented in this blog. (Purchase a license) Keyman Engine for Android allows you to use any Keyman touch keyboard in your Android app, or even to create your own system keyboard app for Read more…
This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such as Ctrl+Alt+C Backspace. You can use any Unicode character on Read more…
For many years, Keyman Desktop has adapted layouts to work more accurately with European hardware keyboards. For example, a US English keyboard has a top alphabetic row of QWERTYUIOP, but a French keyboard has instead AZERTYUIOP. Keyman makes sure that if, for example, you are typing Greek on a French hardware Read more…
Earlier this month, we conducted an internal review of our product offerings and development status. As a result of this review, we determined that we would stop developing and distributing several products. This is important to help us focus on improving our core products without spreading ourselves too thinly. This Read more…
No more square boxes on the web! We are pleased to announce the launch of both Keyman Pro 2.1 for iPhone and iPad and Keyman Pro 2.1 for Android. In this release we have added support for your language to websites that you visit on your phone or tablet. Keyman Pro Keyman Pro Read more…
Test or install the Urdu Touch keyboard The recent availability of Google’s Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft font has made it possible to render Urdu correctly (and beautifully!) on touch devices as well as on desktop computers. We had a number of Urdu keyboard layouts designed for desktop computers. We did Read more…
The other day, we received a review on the iTunes Store for Keyman, which was really a support request. Now the problem with asking for help in the iTunes reviews is that Apple provide no means for us to respond to you. This is unfortunate, especially when, as in this Read more…
In response to your feedback, we have improved Keyman for iPhone and iPad: we no longer require the Allow Full Access option to be switched on. Some background What is Allow Full Access? This is an option in iOS that gives Keyman (and other third party keyboards) access to the Internet Read more…
We are pleased to announce the launch of KeymanWeb 2.0 as an open source software product, under the Apache License, Version 2.0. What is KeymanWeb? What is KeymanWeb? It’s an open source input method framework for the web, supporting desktop and touch keyboard layouts, which works in all modern browsers. Read more…
This post builds on our last post about testing Keyman touch layouts. Now, we provide an alternative test platform for your keyboards, running on your desktop computer rather than your touch device. Google Chrome includes a mobile emulator for web pages, for various devices including iPhones, iPads and Androids. Recent Read more…