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[EZTYC]

Hi there!
I recently installed the keyboard app via the play store.
When the keyboard shows up, the keys on the right are distorted/misaligned:

 

[twistedumbrella]

The text size has been adjusted for above average font size settings. Max will still look off, but that is the cost of max. All of Android looks off at that size

 

[twistedumbrella]

Just happened to be testing some other things and noticed the keyboard was now working with MultiStar and Good Lock

The navigation bar pushes everything to the top of the screen, but it's progress. I'm hoping they update, since they also have the recent app bug (meaning you have to clear the app from recent to launch from the main display after using it on the cover).

I may need to place suggestions vertically due to size limitations. I can't make the keys any shorter, but they can be thinner.

 

[twistedumbrella]

There is a weird issue that causes the keyboard to become stretched out that I haven't quite pinpointed. I can't tell if it's from installing it through Android Studio during testing or how it gets launched in general. If this happens to you, it is being worked on. Knowing how it was installed (Google or GitHub), which wallpaper shows up on the main app (cover or main screen), and if a reboot changes anything would be the relevant info for it.

 

[twistedumbrella]

The size of the cover screen really limits how easy it is to type. Seems like handwriting recognition would be a good fit here. Instead of worrying about hitting the right keys, we can all start worrying about how to spell "rhetorical"

 

[Dr.Lost]

A good way I've gotten around not using the keyboard at all is to use my watch 4 as a keyboard when needed. Wireless, attached to my wrist. Not to bad

 

[twistedumbrella]

The lifetime sales for this app still come in less than a single lifetime license to other launchers, so I have no reason to be worried that anyone is being forced into a purchase they don't actually want.

Anyway...

The handwriting recognition tests are included in all versions. The open space in the bottom of the app settings allows writing and will attempt to read the text after a 2 second delay without input. It struggles, but hopefully there are some settings to be tweaked with the recognition library that will improve it.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Additional language support for predictive input is now just a matter of finishing the word lists and setting the key layouts. Unfortunately, handwriting is restricted to English. The limitation comes from Google, which is a bit ironic considering the original implementation they released was a Chinese keyboard. It was Pinyin, though, which I believe is based on using Roman characters to form Chinese words.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Wrong thread...

 

[lodvn]

Does the Google Play keyboard app work with the current version of UI? I have it enabled but no keyboard shows up on the cover screen of any apps.

Edit: Got it to work after all, only issue I'm having is after I close the keyboard or send my message, the keyboard reopens but its cut off/can only see half of it.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Does the Google Play keyboard app work with the current version of UI? I have it enabled but no keyboard shows up on the cover screen of any apps.

Are both accessibility and the keyboard enabled? It seems a lot of people miss accessibility, which is needed to override the restriction on input for the cover screen.

The newest version (1.5.9) also includes a failsafe to combat Samsung's malicious ChimeraPolicyHandler. Once accessibility has been enabled, the keyboard will prompt that it is unavailable if it is attempting to run and was terminated.

Samsung went against Google's API standards and has added their own modified task killer, named ChimeraPolicyHandler, to kill anything Samsung hasn't excluded. This means foreground services and other "normal" methods to provide an ongoing service are subject to being randomly killed off without any explanation. It has also been found to remove items from the "Never sleeping apps" exclusion list.

 

[twistedumbrella]

Edit: Got it to work after all, only issue I'm having is after I close the keyboard or send my message, the keyboard reopens but its cut off/can only see half of it.

I keep chasing that one. It seems to come and go for everyone at different times. When it happens, launching the app part of the keyboard fixes it for a while. That's not really much of a solution because it defeats the purpose of working on the cover, though. Hopefully I can get it ironed out shortly. So far, the latest tests have been unable to get that particular issue to reappear.

 

[Dr.Lost]

You think a swipe type keyboard would be a good idea?

 

[twistedumbrella]

They never appealed to me personally, but the main reason for not attempting that sort of thing so far is the screen size. The accuracy is already a bit low on keys, but adding in gestures without a really, really effective correction / prediction algorithm would be a train wreck. The algorithm being used now is as basic as it gets, since the way the keyboard has to be added is already a lot more than if it were natively supported. It doesn't include any sort of spell check, which would be a necessity.

 

[Dr.Lost]

They never appealed to me personally, but the main reason for not attempting that sort of thing so far is the screen size. The accuracy is already a bit low on keys, but adding in gestures without a really, really effective correction / prediction algorithm would be a train wreck. The algorithm being used now is as basic as it gets, since the way the keyboard has to be added is already a lot more than if it were natively supported. It doesn't include any sort of spell check, which would be a necessity.

As I expected

 

[twistedumbrella]

@lodvn Has the keyboard stopped stretching beyond thee screen for you on the newest update? I believe I finally tracked down the issue.

For anyone that is interested in the "behind the scenes" junk, the interaction between the cover and main screen is a little buggy. Rather than a straight 0 or 1 for the current screen, it is more like 1111001111011111. What this ends up doing is more or less throwing a random full inner screen resolution into the mix at random intervals when things are idle. The trick is to keep invalidating the layout when it is added to make sure the measurements are the current ones and not a random injection.

 

[lodvn]

@lodvn Has the keyboard stopped stretching beyond thee screen for you on the newest update? I believe I finally tracked down the issue.

Yeah it seems to be working good now

 

[twistedumbrella]

The next update to hit will be hands down one of the biggest improvements since thee original release. It appears some of the documentation was a bit misleading and the accessibility service was reporting lost connection at incorrect times. This has now been fixed and was a major cause of the keyboard not appearing and other false positive reports that it was unavailable.

 

[twistedumbrella]

I make no promises about how this will pan out, but the alternate languages have been enabled for T9. It should automatically select the appropriate word list based on your default language settings. French, Italian, and German are available. English is the default for anything else.

 

[greg190684]

Bonjour j'ai installé l'application tantôt mais j'ai ce message la qui ce met et le clavier des fois ce met mais alors du coup après je ne sais pas revenir en arrière normalement... si quelqu'un peut m'aider ce serait gentil.