Download External Keyboard Helper Pro Apk [WORK]
Katharyn Kasson
Take full control of your USB or bluetooth keyboard with this wonderful app. Add shortcuts to specific keyboard functions to better improve your workflow capabilities such as opening an app or doing a specific function.
The keyboard I'm using comes with a Control key and a Command key. Whenever I try to map each of those to the other, so as to achieve Mac-like shortcuts e.g. Cmd+A etc., Google Assistant appears instead and EKH doesn't seem to receive the signal from the pressed key. So basically Command seems hardwired to call Google Assistant. Any way to change that?
Now, on to the matter at hand. I type in English and Japanese every day. On my computer, it's not really a problem. When it comes to using my tablet, it used to be a problem. For typing with Colemak in English with my Bluetooth keyboard, I use an app called External Keyboard Helper Pro, which I cannot recommend enough! Caps lock is mapped to backspace, and the right Alt is mapped to Alt-Gr natively. It also has many, many other keyboard layouts. I've had no problems with it whatsoever. It's a paid app, but it's not very expensive.
Whenever I switched to Japanese, the romaji keyboard used the system's default keyboard layout, which is QWERTY. That was quite frustrating for a number a years, so I finally decided to figure out a way to simply change the default layout (at least the letter arrangement) to Colemak's. I found the answer, but you have to be on a rooted device to do it, unfortunately. I did this on my Fire 7 tablet, but I'm sure it'll work on any Android device.
The process is painlessly simple. I think ES File Explorer will get the job done, but I used Root Explorer (also a paid app). You want to first find the system folder. Press that to find usr and press that to find keylayout. The file you want to edit is titled "Generic.kl." It's important to copy this file somewhere , so if you mess up, you can just paste it back (I had to do that a couple of times). Root Explorer has its own text editor, so I used that; but if you don't have a text editor, I recommend Jota Text Editor. Press Generic.kl, and you should be prompted to open it up in an editor of your choosing. Do so. I changed Keys 16-25, 30-39, and 44-50 to their Colemak equivalent and swapped 14 and 58. The reason why I swapped the last two is because you cannot have the same value twice. I found this out the hard way when I tried to change Caps_Lock to Del, but I also had Del at Key 14. If you have the same value twice, it will render your keyboard useless. After you've made your changes, save, and reboot.
Very much appreciate the tips and recommendation as I am shopping for a Bluetooth keyboard. I will try that app and thank you very much! Glad to see Colemak has become mainstream and now comes standard on chromebooks.
Keyman for Android app has not yet been made compatible with Samsung DeX, but Keyman keyboards are still working as expected. You can choose a Keyman keyboard from your Android phone and then you type without any issue on Samsung DeX.
In that case, you may want to do step #4 before you switch over to Samsung DeX. One unnecessary inconvenient behavior I can anticipate is that you may have to get out of DeX and repeat the step each time you want to change the keyboard.
External Keyboard Helper Pro - the program allows you to maintain control over external Bluetooth or USB keyboard for Android. At the time div. / off. external keyboard automatically informs You about it supports a huge number of layouts, and most importantly has lots of settings.
One of the distinguishing features - create up to 16 labels each responsible for a particular key combination: change or off. the Escape key, changing the keyboard layout between the three languages using the keys or combinations of keys, automatic keyboard layout selection in the layout in your Android device and much more.
Features:
- International keyboard layouts.
- Add up to 16 application shortcuts (for example start Google Maps with Alt+M)
- Add up to 16 text strings (for example, insert your e-mail address by pressing Alt+E.)
- Remaps the Escape key to Back (can be disabled)
- Allows you to control which characters should be considered as a combination of symbols.
- "Zero" virtual keyboard for working with a hardware keyboard (Bluetooth and USB).
- Automatically displays a dialog for selecting the Input Method, when you connect or disconnect the Bluetooth keyboard (Android 2.3 +).
- Automatic detection can also work with USB keyboards on some platforms (experimental) (Android 2.3 +)
- application that invokes the input method selection (for easy access)
- Switch between layouts to choose from using keys or combinations of keys. (up to 3 layouts)
- Select a keyboard layout automatically based on language setting in your device.
- pop-up blocker, long press on Android 2.x.
- Change the delay and speed of repeat.
- Ability to change layouts and customize the two custom layouts.
You can adjust the onscreen (software) keyboard on iPhone. If you use an external (hardware) keyboard with iPhone, you can customize keyboard shortcuts and change settings such as the key repeat rate.
For the last 18 months I've been using the Spotify Android TV App on my Sony TV, in combination with an external wireless keyboard connected to the TV's USB port. This has served as a great solution for typing in track names, avoiding cumbersome entry with the TV remote.
Within the last week my keyboard functionality has stopped working correctly - it seems to align with the recent GUI change (new sidebar etc.). I have updated the app to the very latest version (1.30), along with my TV firmware, but to no avail.
Tried the following remedies as per the instructions by @Mihail:
- Cleared app cache
- Re-installed the app with the keyboard connected
- Re-installed the app with the keyboard disconnected
None of these had an effect on the eventual functionality of the external keyboard. While doing this, I noticed another and quite severe issue: the space bar doesn't work at all. So, three very important keys don't work: backspace, delete and space. Also, the caps lock doesn't work as it's supposed to as already mentioned.
Spotify is the only app in my Shield with which I've had these keyboard issues. E.g. YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ all behave as expected.
As others have implied, this is more than a minor inconvenience because having a physical keyboard connected prevents the soft keyboard from appearing on the screen. In other words, if I want to type in Spotify I have to go and physically unplug the wireless dongle from the back of the TV - it's a real pain.
P.S. For those interested, much earlier versions of the app do still work with an external keyboard - look for the version with the jade green backdrop. Sadly the user interface is otherwise far worse (some serious horizontal scrolling which is a bit nauseating!).
There seems to bee a synch issue related to specific set-ups with Spotify on a smart tv and an external keyboard. We've reported this to our developer team and they are currently working on a solution. We recommend keeping an eye out for future updates to the app, but can't set a specific timeframe for when this issue will be fixed.
As a possible workaround we can suggest that you connect the wireless keyboards to a computer and Chromecast from there or remote control the app on your tv from a mobile device via Connect. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this here.
I am using a Droid Bionic and with an Anker K1280C keyboard ( an Apple keyboard clone). I can pair the phone with the keyboard, but the Bluetooth keyboard does not show up in the input method selection list.
I have tried a few applications which do expose a keyboard in the input methods list and connect to the Bluetooth keyboard (BlueKeyboard JP and Blue Input). They allow most of the keys to work, but the key map is not completely correct.
Normally, Android shouldn't need a separate app for that, you're quite correct with that. And normally, it doesn't. But sometimes a little trouble may arise with specific combinations, like e.g. keyboards having a weird layout.
As you write you've got the keyboard basically working, just the layout is screwed: I recommend you taking a look at External Keyboard Helper, which lets you adjust a lot of things to your needs, amongst others the keyboard layout. Though I never used it myself, I already recommended it with a similar question -- and no, I'm in no way affiliated with this app :)
Edit: it looks like iPad (and maybe iPhone 6 plus?) has an extra choice for 'Shortcuts' which are the new icons that sometimes appear. The keyboard chooser and Keyboards settings screen also have a 'Shortcuts' option that can be set to off. You need to set both Predictive and Shortcuts off on iPad to make the bar disappear completely.
I bought an OTG cable for my LG-G2. I connected to the OTG a wireless logitech keyboard (MK 250). In my keyboard layout I got 2 Languages: English and Hebrew.When I press SHIFT-SPACE (language change), I see on the top of the screen the EN(English layout) changes to HE(Hebrew layout) but when I press a button, it types in English while the HE is on the top of the screen. Is there is anyway that this keyboard will type in Hebrew? I tried thitd party apps but it doesn't change anything.
I solved it.I found an app called "external keyboard helper pro". with the app I found a way to change the layout. to switch languages, I just need to change the external keyboard helper to the built in LG keyboard.Thank you Gabe for your help.
1 - go to physical keyboard settingsyou can find it from your keyboard setting (Gboard,swiftkey,etc..) its some option like : "android physical keyboard settings"or maybe you can find it in a location like this : settings->language and input -> physical keyboard settings2 - choose your physical keyboard -> Set up keyboard layouts3 - toggle the language layout options you need
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