Developing Keyman
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Developing Keyboards
Using Keyman Engine for Android to create a custom keyboard app
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…
Developing Keyman
An improved experience with deadkeys on European hardware keyboards
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…
Amharic
Products we will be discontinuing in March 2015
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…
Developing Keyboards
Announcing the Launch of KeymanWeb 2.0 – Open Source
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…
Developing Keyboards
In response to unanswered comments on our blog
I recently discovered a number of comments on our blog that had gone unnoticed, and for which we received no notification. I’m sorry: I want to respond to all the comments and questions. Now that I’ve found the comments, I’ll respond here, even though it’s really too late! Obviously, we’ll Read more…
Developing Keyman
Should I upgrade to Keyman Desktop 9.0?
If you currently use Keyman Desktop 6, 7.1 or 8.0, you may have questions about whether you should upgrade to version 9.0 or not. This post outlines the various upgrade paths and provides information on the pros and cons of each upgrade path. Before getting into the details, Keyman Desktop Read more…
Developing Keyman
Keyman Desktop 9.0 is here!
We are very excited to announce the launch of Keyman Desktop 9.0! Keyman Desktop 9.0 is the world’s leading custom input method tool for Windows, covering thousands of languages in every country under the sun — with keyboard layouts created by the Keyman community and your own creations made with Read more…
Developing Keyboards
Testing the Keyman system-wide keyboard on iOS 8
Marc here. I’ve been trying to use the Keyman keyboard on iOS 8 exclusively for a few days, now that iOS 8 is in gold master. This post is written to give you a bit of an idea of how deep we try and go in working through usability and Read more…
Developing Keyman
Enable custom fonts in Opera Mini
Configure Opera Mini to make Amharic and other custom text visible. 1) In Opera Mini, visit opera:config by typing it into the URL bar: 2) Find "Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts", set it to "Yes", and click "Save": You may also need to switch off "Single column view" in Read more…