How to add dock keyboard function key support for AOSP (for developers)

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I have added support for the dock keyboard function keys (Wireless, Bluetooth, Touchpad, etc). This required adding support for the non-standard Asus keycode labels (this was the easy part) and adding code to the framework to send the related keyevents to the Asus keyboard service.

Attached is a zip file with the updated source files. In addition you will need to have the Asus Keyboard.apk app resigned with a AOSP cert. You need to either resign it yourself or you can extract it from the zip attached to this post, http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1542502.

Also some ROMs have switched to using the keylayout and keychar files from the above post. DO NOT use these going forward! The entries for the function keys were remarked out of these files to prevent issues which no longer exist now that the Asus keycodes are supported. The function keys will not work if you use these files. You should use the original keylayout and keychar files shipped by Asus.

I have no plans to submit these myself to any of the AOSP projects. If you maintain the TF101 port for any AOSP ROMs feel free to submit the patches to your project.

Just a side not here. The code changes for sending the keycodes to the Asus keyboard service are in PhoneWindowManager.java. While looking through the smali of the Asus implementation I noticed a lot of Asus added code related to detecting if the lid is closed on the dock. I suspect this is where the changes to fix waking up when the lid is closed are going to need to be implemented. Unfortunately I won't have time to look more at it for a few weeks due to work obligations but thought I would provide a pointer to others who may want to.

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Originally Posted by dodava

Just a side not here. The code changes for sending the keycodes to the Asus keyboard service are in PhoneWindowManager.java. While looking through the smali of the Asus implementation I noticed a lot of Asus added code related to detecting if the lid is closed on the dock. I suspect this is where the changes to fix waking up when the lid is closed are going to need to be implemented. Unfortunately I won't have time to look more at it for a few weeks due to work obligations but thought I would provide a pointer to others who may want to.

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Roach already fixed that, but the screen only turns off when the dock is inserted
I made some small changes to that code and implemeted in my rom and the screen also turns off if the tab is not docked. I made this change because of my cover having a magnet to turn the screen off

thank for your work trying to merge it into cna version!
Hmm i got the Asus keyboard working from my build, but still missing mapping of top buttons, maybe i forgot some code from PhoneWindowManager.java

Originally Posted by timbit123

thank for your work trying to merge it into cna version!
Hmm i got the Asus keyboard working from my build, but still missing mapping of top buttons, maybe i forgot some code from PhoneWindowManager.java

Did you remember to use the original Asus keylayout and keychars files instead of what was in my Asus keyboard package?

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Ok forgot that part, thx building a new test again

Great work, man. Thanks!