Fwd: [fosscomm] Just Released : Indic Keyboard for Android

[Shrinivasan T]

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From: Anivar Aravind <anivar....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:35 PM
Subject: [fosscomm] Just Released : Indic Keyboard for Android
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Just Launched https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic


Indic keyboard is a native free and open source Indian language input keyboard application for Android mobile devices. At present supporting almost 15 Indic languages, this application uses fonts in Android system in both direct input (characters mapped to keys) and transliteration. Though support for Indian languages was already available in some phones, Android officially started support with Jelly bean (4.1) version.

Users can directly type in their native language to any app installed in their phone. An installation wizard is included with the app to ease the setup process. Any novice user can install and setup the app for their language easily.
This app extends Android’s default keyboard and adds support for languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. The app supports any device which has Android 4.1 and above installed. Most of the supported languages have 3 layouts - phonetic, inscript and transliteration.Do note that font support for all languages may not be available in all makes and models.

This keyboard requires Android 4.1+, and is developed by Jishnu Mohan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing  with the support of DIT R & D Project undertaken by ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala.

Source code is available at https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard

The keyboard will work with all AOSP variants like cynogenmod, replicant etc

We will soon publish apk  in f-droid too

Playstore link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic

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[Arun Prakash]

I tried that, since there is only three layouts i am not happy with it. I am using Tamil99 keyboard layout with Tamil Visai, it is fine.

2014-03-11 13:23 GMT+05:30 Shrinivasan T <tshrin...@gmail.com>:

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From: Anivar Aravind <anivar....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:35 PM
Subject: [fosscomm] Just Released : Indic Keyboard for Android
To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <dis...@lists.smc.org.in>, Fosscom Network <net...@fosscom.in>, "comm...@fosscommunity.in" <comm...@fosscommunity.in>, Discussions related to Free Software and the Movement <fsmk-d...@lists.fsmk.in>, indlinu...@lists.sourceforge.net

[with usual apologies of cross posting]

Just Launched https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic


Indic keyboard is a native free and open source Indian language input keyboard application for Android mobile devices. At present supporting almost 15 Indic languages, this application uses fonts in Android system in both direct input (characters mapped to keys) and transliteration. Though support for Indian languages was already available in some phones, Android officially started support with Jelly bean (4.1) version.

Users can directly type in their native language to any app installed in their phone. An installation wizard is included with the app to ease the setup process. Any novice user can install and setup the app for their language easily.
This app extends Android’s default keyboard and adds support for languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. The app supports any device which has Android 4.1 and above installed. Most of the supported languages have 3 layouts - phonetic, inscript and transliteration.Do note that font support for all languages may not be available in all makes and models.

This keyboard requires Android 4.1+, and is developed by Jishnu Mohan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing  with the support of DIT R & D Project undertaken by ICFOSS, Govt. of Kerala.

Source code is available at https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard

The keyboard will work with all AOSP variants like cynogenmod, replicant etc

We will soon publish apk  in f-droid too

Playstore link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic

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[Santhosh Thottingal]

On 03/11/2014 05:26 PM, Arun Prakash wrote:
> I tried that, since there is only three layouts i am not happy with it.
> I am using Tamil99 keyboard layout with Tamil Visai, it is fine.

Tamil 99 was added to the layouts y'day night.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic

Santhosh

[Arun Prakash]

Hi,

 

Tamil 99 was added to the layouts y'day night. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic

This looks good and i feel convinient typing too. One issue is that you have used only tamil numerals. This is really good, but i think support for arabic numerals should be there since tamil numerals are not in huge public usage nowadays. 

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[Jishnu Mohan]

Hi,

On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:48:04 PM UTC+5:30, Arun Prakash wrote:

This looks good and i feel convinient typing too. One issue is that you have used only tamil numerals. This is really good, but i think support for arabic numerals should be there since tamil numerals are not in huge public usage nowadays.

Glad you like the keyboard.
Arabic numerals are supported in all Tamil layouts, just that Tamil numerals are set as default. Long press on any Tamil number will show corresponding Arabic number.

[கா. சேது | කා. සේතු | K. Sethu]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Arun Prakash <arunpra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

Tamil 99 was added to the layouts y'day night. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic

This looks good and i feel convinient typing too.

But keystrokes mappings are not yet included, it appears. Tamil99 uses key sequence of alpha_consonant followed by vowel  for generating consonants with vowel diacritics.

for e.g. : key for க followed by key for ஆ should yield கா and similarly க followed by இ to yield கி and so on. But with this in my Samsung Galaxy S2 GT i9100 (Android 4.1.2 bld: XWLSW) I get கஆ, கஇ respectively and so on  and similarly in case of all other consonants!

So please do get sequences included before we test for other important features very specific to Tamil99 standard. 

The current standard for Tamil99  is in this (released by TN Gov in 2011): http://tamilvu.org/coresite/download/Tamil_Unicode_G.O.zip 
with more detailed tables in: http://tamilvu.org/coresite/download/Teder_Document_for_Tamil_fonts_and_kbd_driver.pdf

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[Solomon Sunder]

Hi Jishnu,

Your keyboard with the non bloated Google Keyboard UI is amazing. Used the English to Tamil transliteration. Seems we will need some time to get acquainted with the words. For example, instead of Enga we need to type Engga on this to get the desired output. Glad that you put the Tamil numerals and the ₹ symbol too. Why don't you promote this on TDIL: Indian Language Technology Proliferation and Deployment Centre and MGOV - Mobile Governance Initiative of DIT Facebook pages as well as their websites?

Regards,

Solomon