[Q] Using German keyboard layout while in English mode

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Okay so basically I want to do on my Nexus 7 what I do on my Windows PC. Have Jelly Bean display in English but the on-screen keyboard to have a standard German Qwertz Layout.

On a Windows PC this is easy language & keyboard settings are separate. But having a scout around the Android forums on here & the Nexus 7 forums. This is apparently problematic.

Lily

PS. I have never used an android device before & I did use search so please forgive my ignorance.

Check out the Android app store. A search for "Keyboard German" got 348 hits.

For example, Slideit offers 45 free language and layout packs. That just happens to be the first one I pulled up.

Thanks for responding. But I simply want to do this in Jelly Bean without an external app. I'm not going looking for apps unless I know that Jelly Bean isn't capable of displaying in one language & using a different keyboard. Are you saying that android can't cope with such a basic requirement natively? And that I have no choice but to use an independent app & shell out money for a basic OS requirement.

Why would you pay for an App when there are so many free ones?

Go Keyboard, for example, is free with over 90,000 downloads.

If you don't want to use Apps with a Nexus - I am not sure why you want a Nexus.
Apps make Android what it is.

Maybe someone with a pre-production Nexus 7 can tell you what the keyboard supports out of the box. I will say the language on the keyboard has nothing to do with the language the device displays in.

Originally Posted by rmm200

Why would you pay for an App when there are so many free ones?

Go Keyboard, for example, is free with over 90,000 downloads.

If you don't want to use Apps with a Nexus - I am not sure why you want a Nexus.
Apps make Android what it is.

Maybe someone with a pre-production Nexus 7 can tell you what the keyboard supports out of the box. I will say the language on the keyboard has nothing to do with the language the device displays in.

The one you recommended costs nearly 3 quid.

I never said I won't use apps. My question was not about apps. My question was does Jelly Bean support this. I just assumed that a feature this basic must be stock. So I thought I would post the question & hope someone that actually knows the answer would happen along. Or for that matter someone familiar enough with other Android incarnations who could make a best guess. Basic logic dictates that I see what it can do natively before filling it up with unnecessary apps.

Not a recommendation of mine - I said that was just the first one that search pulled up.

Older versions of Android support 13 languages on the multi-touch keyboard, including German.

My post was intended to point out, if by chance, Nexus 7 does not have what you need, there is an app for it...

So does somebody else know or have any actual insight as to whether android can handle this natively? I'd be really grateful for some info from peeps who actually know their way around android. Because I definitely don't.

Just tried it on my Galaxy Nexus (ICS) and what you require is there out the box. You can pick from a variety of keyboard languages without changing the system language.

Originally Posted by rowanparker

Just tried it on my Galaxy Nexus (ICS) and what you require is there out the box. You can pick from a variety of keyboard languages without changing the system language.

You Sir are bloody lovely. Fingers crossed they allow this in Jelly Bean. Thanking you muchly.