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Is There A Keyboard Layout Creator for Android?

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I have created a keyboard layout for the language I speak on windows using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. I want to port the same layout to Phones. Before the cursing starts, I have done a quick research.:) according to which: - all keyboard layouts are located at \system\usr\keylayout - all keyboard character map files are located at \system\usr\keychars - I went through the official documentation on [Key Layout Files](http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/key-layout-files.html) **Where Do I Stand Now?** Well, as I said in the start I have worked with a MS based app for creating keyboard layouts on Windows (obviously), The whole thing in Linux world is a bit gibberish to me at the moment because of lots of manual text file editing I guess. So, my ultimate question is, Is there such a tool which can help me create a new layout or import the existing layout which I created for windows to Android? **Update 2** I couldn't update my answer before because I didn't get the time. I finally found a tool which helped me a lot. It's called [Keyboard Layout Editor](https://github.com/simos/keyboardlayouteditor) . Please don't forget to star this guys repo. KLE is really easy to use and functional and I could achieve my goal easily. Oh by the way this one is for Ubuntu(Linux). For Android though, I cloned the Sample SoftKeybord from [Android source](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+/master/samples/SoftKeyboard/) . You can download tar [here](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/development/+archive/master/samples/SoftKeyboard.tar.gz) . It's not a layout editor but the actual keyboard. You just edit it to suit your needs.
Asked by Junaid Qadir Shekhanzai (111 rep)
Sep 2, 2013, 03:25 PM
Last activity: Nov 18, 2022, 05:04 PM