Android apps by Klaus Weidner

Hacker's Keyboard

Fri, 20 May 2011 03:26:11 +0000

Are you missing the key layout you're used to from your computer? This keyboard has separate number keys, punctuation in the usual places, and arrow keys. It is based on the AOSP Gingerbread soft keyboard, so it supports multitouch for the modifier keys.

This keyboard is especially useful if you use ConnectBot for SSH access. It provides working Tab/Ctrl/Esc keys, and the arrow keys are essential for devices such as the Xoom tablet or Nexus S that don't have a trackball or D-Pad.

HAVE FEEDBACK, QUESTIONS, OR BUG REPORTS? Please send email to pocketworkstation@gmail.com or check https://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions. I can't help you if you leave questions or comments in a Play Store review, I don’t have any way to contact review authors.

The permissions requested by the application are those needed by the underlying Gingerbread keyboard. It uses the contacts information for completion of names and email addresses, and audio recording for the voice input feature. On Android 4.1, you may see a spurious request for "call log" permission, this is a side effect of an OS change that will be fixed in the next update.

The supported keyboard layouts include:
- Armenian (Հայերեն)
- Arabic (العربية)
- Bulgarian (български език)
- Czech (Čeština)
- Danish (dansk)
- English Dvorak (language "en_DV")
- English (QWERTY)
- English/British (en_GB)
- Finnish (Suomi)
- French (Français, AZERTY)
- German (Deutsch, QWERTZ)
- Greek (ελληνικά)
- Hebrew (עברית)
- Italian (Italiano)
- Lao (ພາສາລາວ)
- Norwegian (Norsk bokmål)
- Persian (فارسی)
- Portugese (Português)
- Romanian (Română)
- Russian (Русский)
- Russian phonetic (Русский, ru-rPH)
- Serbian (Српски)
- Slovak (Slovenčina)
- Slovenian (Slovenščina)/Bosnian/Croatian/Latin Serbian
- Spanish (Español)
- Swedish (Svenska)
- Thai (ไทย)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Ukrainian (українська мова)

Completion dictionaries are provided by plug-in packages, see the "other applications by this developer" section for the currently available list. The keyboard also supports use of dictionaries (but not keyboard layouts) provided by AnySoftKeyboard language packs.

For more information, including the user's guide, FAQ/known issues, alternate version downloads, and the source code, please check out the developer web page: http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/

Known issues include:

- Localization for the keyboard layout is incomplete, currently the Spanish, Finnish, Lao, Romanian, and Thai are only localized in 4-row mode and show the English QWERTY layout in 5-row mode.

- Some languages and layouts may not be usable on your phone if it lacks the necessary fonts.

- Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew) are apparently not fully supported on pre-Honeycomb devices, YMMV.

- Many applications don't react to additional keys since they aren't programmed to handle them.

Recent changes:
v1.33:
- New layouts: Persian (فارسی, fa), Armenian (Հայերեն, hy), Russian phonetic (Русский, ru-rPH)
- Support for devices with MIPS and x86 CPUs
- bugfixes for shift handling and suggestion underlining

v1.31:
- bugfixes including stuck Ctrl key, suggestions bar not staying disabled, and landscape layout preference setting. See the full release notes on the developer web page for details.

Russian dictionary (Русский)

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:20:38 +0000

A Russian completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
Add icon and device compatibility fixes. No need to upgrade if the previous version works for you.

English completion dictionary

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:16:47 +0000

An English completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard. Needed for future versions, release 1.29 still has it built in but I plan to unbundle it to save space.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
In the future, the English dictionary will no longer be included in the Hacker's Keyboard package. Use this external dictionary to provide English completion suggestions.

Spanish dictionary (Español)

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:18:19 +0000

A Spanish completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
Add icon and device compatibility fixes. No need to upgrade if the previous version works for you.

Turkish dictionary (Türkçe)

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:32:38 +0000

Turkish completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Contributed Turkish dictionary, built with data from http://invokeit.wordpress.com/frequency-word-lists/ by Invoke IT Limited

If you find this useful, please consider making a donation to the creator of the dictionary data (not me, I just packaged it) at the above address.

License:
Creative Commons – Attribution / ShareAlike 3.0 license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

French dictionary (Français)

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:15:26 +0000

A French completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
Add icon and device compatibility fixes. No need to upgrade if the previous version works for you.

Thai dictionary (ไทย)

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:28:54 +0000

Thai completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Dictionary for the Hacker's Keyboard compiled by Mark Hollow <mark@lnreader.com>

The word frequencies are taken from a spreadsheet published by Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
Thailand. Published online (January 2011) here:
http://ling.arts.chula.ac.th/TNC/category.php?id=58
No license is shown on the website and it is assumed to be in the public domain.

The dictionary source is the NECTEC LEXiTRON Thai-English dictionary. The full license is at https://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/downloads/detail?name=dict-th-release.apk , reproduced below with section "Definitions" omitted.

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German dictionary (Deutsch)

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:15:23 +0000

A German completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
Add icon and device compatibility fixes. No need to upgrade if the previous version works for you.

Hebrew dictionary - עברית

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:20:40 +0000

A Hebrew completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard. (May not display correctly on older Android devices.)

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res

Recent changes:
Add icon and device compatibility fixes. No need to upgrade if the previous version works for you.

Italian dictionary (Italiano)

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:16:32 +0000

Italian completion dictionary for use with Hacker's Keyboard.

Based on the Cyanogen dictionary as released under Apache 2.0 license at
https://gist.github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/tree/gingerbread/overlay/common/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/java/res