[APP] Russian/German/etc for dock keyboard (Updated 2012-03-11)

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I haven't found any keyboards for ICS Asus Transformer which allow to switch input language on the dock keyboard, so I hacked standard ICS keyboard to allow russian and english layout to be used on the dock keyboard. Here is the apk, enjoy.

What works:
* All standard features, like soft keyboard and voice input should work correctly.
* Switch between russian and english using Ctrl-Space, or Ctrl+Shift (I can potentially change it to any other key combination)
* Russian and German and a few others layouts on dock keyboard
* NO ROOT required, the keyboard can be installed in addition to standard keyboard.

TODO:
* load kcm files
* add layouts for some other languages if anyone is interested
* pick up a sane name for the keyboard modification
* caps lock is ignored in russian mode
* Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Shift changes layout, but doesn't update the selected keyboard subtype in list of keyboards.

Changelog:
2012-03-12 - azerty for french, fixed ENTER key to work correctly with search widget.
2012-03-11 - Restored back qwertz for German layout
2012-03-10 - Using TF101 Original KCMs provided by @bouod. German kcm layout uses qwerty instead of qwertz. Is it fine?
2012-03-09 - Added alt-<key> combinations to german layout.
2012-03-06 - added experimental German support (to enable - enable German language in keyboard settings)

there's an app called "Russian Keyboard", it works almost perfect. Just set it to "external qwerty"/

Originally Posted by lw_temp

there's an app called "Russian Keyboard", it works almost perfect. Just set it to "external qwerty"/

I've just tried the "Russian Keyboard":
* it works
* soft keyboard is pretty crappy (I like ICS keyboard much more, I should probably add a layout switch key to it, which is the one thing I dislike about it)
* Location of 'ё' key is unknown.

My version:
* standard ICS keyboard
* slight changes to switch dock key layouts

sounds good to me

i have been trying for 2 days to get asus keyboard working on Eos and got it but not in the dock part

I would love to write "Arabic" in my doc
appreciate your help

thanks

Ivan, btw, you're my тезка=), can you change language switching method to ctrl-shift or fn-shift? It would be awesome.

For rukeyboard you can assign ё key, but you have to disassemble its apk.

Originally Posted by lw_temp

Ivan, btw, you're my тезка=), can you change language switching method to ctrl-shift or fn-shift? It would be awesome.

For rukeyboard you can assign ё key, but you have to disassemble its apk.

Added Ctrl+Shift as another language switching method.

Originally Posted by bouod

sounds good to me

i have been trying for 2 days to get asus keyboard working on Eos and got it but not in the dock part

I would love to write "Arabic" in my doc
appreciate your help

thanks

I have taken a look at the arabic keyboard on wikipedia and tried to type arabic on android. It looks much more complicated and I'm not sure I fully understand how it supposed to work. I can give you my modifications if you want to try yourself.

Nice modification mate !

Could you please share the source of your decompiled apk ?
Or even better, a full eclipse project would be nice !
BTW, with what thingy of editor are you reverse engeneering the keyboard apk ?

I would love to see this mod for german users :)

Gesendet von meinem Transformer TF101 mit Tapatalk

I could do that if he would give the source to me.

Or if he does by himself :P .

I could provide the translated layout files.