[How To] Port Note keyboard to S2 [dedicated number row]

Christian ported this keyboard to S2 but this is a how to do it yourself, prepared it from scratch after a lot of research

1) Extract SamsungIME.apk from the ROM that you prefer that has the default S2 Samsung keyboard
2) decompile the apk
3) in the extracted/decompiled folder, browse to res\xml-sw320dp-hdpi\properties.xml
4) search for the following line and change the value to "true" as seen below

<Property key="USE_ADDTO_NUMBER_KEY_FIRST_LINE" value="true" type="bool" />

5) add the following line at the bottom of the same file

<Property key="NOTE_KEYPAD_TYPE" value="true" type="bool" />

6) next browse to /res/xml-sw320dp-hdpi/qwerty_en.xml and add the following code at the top. Blue color code is what was added to the top to add the numeric row. Modified file attached.

<Row android:keyHeight="0.0px" android:horizontalGap="0.0px" android:verticalGap="@dimen/qwerty_first_line_vertical_gap">
<Key android:keyWidth="100.0%p" android:codes="-257" android:keyLabel="StrEmpty" />
</Row>
<Row android:keyHeight="@dimen/qwerty_number_key_height" android:rowEdgeFlags="top">
<Key android:horizontalGap="@dimen/qwerty_first_col_horizontal_gap" android:codes="0x31" android:keyEdgeFlags="left" android:keyLabel="1" />
<Key android:codes="0x32" android:keyLabel="2" />
<Key android:codes="0x33" android:keyLabel="3" />
<Key android:codes="0x34" android:keyLabel="4" />
<Key android:codes="0x35" android:keyLabel="5" />
<Key android:codes="0x36" android:keyLabel="6" />
<Key android:codes="0x37" android:keyLabel="7" />
<Key android:codes="0x38" android:keyLabel="8" />
<Key android:codes="0x39" android:keyLabel="9" />
<Key android:codes="0x30" android:keyEdgeFlags="right" android:keyLabel="0" />
</Row>
<Row>
<Key android:horizontalGap="@dimen/qwerty_first_col_horizontal_gap" android:codes="113" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_q" android:keyEdgeFlags="left" android:keyLabel="q" />
<Key android:codes="119" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_w" android:keyLabel="w" />
<Key android:codes="101" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_e" android:keyLabel="e" />
<Key android:codes="114" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_r" android:keyLabel="r" />
<Key android:codes="116" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_t" android:keyLabel="t" />
<Key android:codes="121" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_y" android:keyLabel="y" />
<Key android:codes="117" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_u" android:keyLabel="u" />
<Key android:codes="105" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_i" android:keyLabel="i" />
<Key android:codes="111" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_o" android:keyLabel="o" />
<Key android:codes="112" androidopupCharacters="@string/default_umlaut_p" android:keyEdgeFlags="right" android:keyLabel="p" />
</Row>

7) most of the ported keyboards did not have 5 rows in the symbols page. I preferred to match 5 rows on the symbols page like the note keyboard. So, I had to make changes to qwerty_number_symbols.xml file. I remapped the keys and hence attached xml file to the post.

8) Finally I preferred to increase the height of the numeric keys and so I change "qwerty_number_key_height" in dimens.xml to 48 from default value of 31 or 32

I change it both under \res\values\dimes.xml and also \res\values-sw320dp-hdpi\dimes.xml

9) decompile back the apk and then replace the original file with the modified apk file in \preload...\app\

Note: these are the steps to be performed to English language keyboard. For other languages, you need to edit the corresponding qwerty_xx.xml and qwerty_number_symbols_xx.xml file. Thanks to Christian for highlighting this.

Hoping not to missed anything. Got ideas from Korean website.
http://www.matcl.com/?m=bbs&bid=usermoim&cat=팁&uid=191755

corruptionfreeindia said:

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Should not we recompile the apk at last?


BTW nice guide


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Corrected, thanks

mma173 said:

How to make it independent from Touchwiz or Samsung Firmware? In other words how to make it work on AOSP and other ROMs variations?
Thanks'

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Does not seem possible because of the Samsung framework

kmdangi said:

Thanks for very useful guide. I could edit the code and got number row working on my Samsung default keyboard on Galaxy S3 Korean variant. I was looking for this guide from many days. Thanks again bro.
One thing, there are no keys beneath the number rows, can you guide how to add these ? only number rows are seen

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You might want to check "sip_key_bg_number.9.png" and "sip_key_bg_number_qwerty.9.png" under res\drawable-sw3**** folders. For landscape layout, you need to also make changes in folder "res\drawable-sw***-land***" folders

kmdangi said:

thanks josephpatrick,

I deleted <Property key="USE_ADDTO_NUMBER_KEY_FIRST_LINE" value="true" type="bool" /> from properties.xml and the problem was solved !!

Can you help me, How to disable the secondary keylabels seen on the number buttons ?

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Glad u figured it out. Normally the number row has a different background image/color.

For the symbol part, system/csc/feature.xml ==> remove following lines

<CscFeature_Sip_UseSymbolInCMKey>true</CscFeature_Sip_UseSymbolInCMKey>
<CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>de;en_US;en_GB</CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>

Use root explorer and edit the file