Touch Input methods, Brahmic scipts

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akshaysr...@gmail.com

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May 3, 2018, 11:59:52 AM5/3/18
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सर्वेभ्यो नमोन्म:।

Brahmi - IMs for touch-based interfaces (like everywhere else), are severely lacking. For this reason, I made a 'flick'-style keyboard
(borrowing ideas from Kana-input) for Sailfish OS a year back, that I thoroughly loved using.


https://github.com/akssri/krkey

That is until my Sailfish phone reached its EOL. I'm now stuck with horrid unimaginative input methods on Android.

Is there any interest here in making a keyboard like the above for Android ?

- अक्षय:

Shreevatsa R

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May 3, 2018, 1:57:56 PM5/3/18
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This looks very interesting! A keyboard layout like this may be a pleasure to use, especially for heavy users. 

I imagine there's some tradeoff between adapting based on what's been input so far (the most likely things to follow, in the easiest-to-reach places) and being manageably easy to learn/remember (not everything moves around all the time).

If someone develops something like this for Android I'd definitely give it a try and provide feedback, though unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to work on this myself.

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May 4, 2018, 2:07:59 AM5/4/18
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On Fri, 04 May 2018 02:57:44 +0900,
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> This looks very interesting! A keyboard layout like this may be a pleasure to use, especially for heavy users. 

Indeed! The closest in spirit is Swarachakra from IIT-B people, but even that is fairly unusable.

- Switching b/w 10-ish स्वरा: is not very precise on a tiny screen, as you can imagine.
- It dumps all the व्यञ्जनानि onto the layout (in a very ill thought out way), taking up valuable screen real-estate in the process.

The easiest way seems to be fork it and port this IM using their codebase.
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