I have Samsung Galaxy S25. I decided to give default Samsung Keyboard a try (I previously used SwiftKey). I type in Polish and English. When long pressing a letter (eg 'a') I expect to choose a single alternative symbol ('!' in this case) and polish letters derived from 'a' ('ą'). Instead I get 1 expectedy symbol, 1 expected polish letter and 10 different a-adjacent characters to choose from, from (I guess) all the languages in the world. How do I make the keyboard to propose ONLY polish letters (and a symbol)?

Two rows of keys have stopped working: 4RFV and 5TGB. Apparently, this is not fixable and I have to buy a new keyboard. But that's not in the budget currently. I'm looking into something called keyboard mapping as a temporary solution,at least I think it's called key mapping. I want to be able to press something like "Alt P", to type "R". I found the External Keyboard Helper app. But I think it's for Bluetooth connections. The Book Cover keyboard is connected by the 3 metal dots at the bottom. Does anyone know of any workaround to get the keys to work through some other keys? There are other options I will look into as a last resort (buying a new keyboard). Im trying to keep this keyboard because it's not really feasible to take notes on a touchscreen. And the great thing about the tablet and the keyboard it came with was that I could take it to classes and meeting. The tablet model name is SM-T736B. The keyboard is EF-DT730. Any help is appreciated!

This question is for a **hardware** keyboard connected via an USB C to C cable. On the OSK I was already good, using "Unexpected Keyboard" which I love. Plugging in the hardware keyboard, I don't know how to type the letter å. I realized that if I go into the settings and disable Unexpected Keyboard and instead use Gboard or AnySoftKeyboard (Hacker's Keyboard didn't work and I couldn't find OpenBoard in F-Droid), I can type dead diaeresis, dead acute, dead grave, dead tilde, and dead circumflex with various keyboard combos enabling me to type words like ëñôéàßç and that's great. That brings me part of the way there. (I live in Stockholm where é, à, ö, ä, å are common (and ü is used in only one word, a common type of breakfast cereal that I refer to often). The one common letter I can't type is å. (I have a few friends with other weird characters in their names but I can just paste those, while å I need to type all the time.)) I've heard people say å is altgr+w but that does nothing. On iPad it's altgr+a but that does nothing here either. On Windows it's alt+0229 and on Unix a couple of different compose sequences could do it. Even with Unexpected Keyboard as my only enabled keyboard and set to control the hardware keyboard, I can type ä and ö (as altgr+u a and altgr+u o respectively), I didn't realize at first because doesn't "show" the dead umlaut the way Gboard does. What a strange and under-documented world this is. Still no å. On Android it's possible to select a Swedish layout entirely but the problem with that is that ^ and ~ and a few other important keys become "dead" keys. It's more important for me to be able to type a normal living ~ or ^ than to type å. In Termux and in Emacs I'm already set, so for medium or long texts I just type there and paste from there. (So no need to post solutions specific to those two apps, I've already got them.) But for chat apps specifically, that is a no go. It's gotten to the point that I type the rest of the message and then unplug just to pop up the OSK to type the diacritics letters. I do have a programmable keyboard (it's an Atreus) but keyboards can ultimately only send keycodes, it can't send any Unicode codepoint. So if typing å means sending Alt+0229 or alt cokebottle horseshoe W, that's fine because I can just set up a macro to do that, but if there's no way to send a living ~ or ^ I'm in trouble. A macro like "tilde + tilde" or "tilde + space" is no good; it works for typing but it'll still break keyboard shortcuts that depend on tilde. But I have no keyboard shortcuts depending on å so a "for typing only"-solution is more appropriate for it. It seems that in the Play Store there's a proprietary app called External Keyboard Helper that'll solve it but that would mean installing a proprietary app that could key log everything I do!😰

I need to input calculus and trigonometric notations in Android. How to input math symbols in Android?

When switching from Huawei's Android 8.0 to Oppo's Android 12 I noticed a keyboard problem that I'm unable to solve. First, here is how the keyboard on Android 8.0 looked like: Then, here is how the keyboard on Android 12 looks like: You see that on the "old" keyboard there are additional symbols above the letters (like ' on c that is not displayed on the new keyboard. However it's not just that the symbol isn't displayed, it's also not available on long-press of c. So my simple question is: *How can I get the "old layout" on my new phone?*

Since I need to use many different input methods at the same time so I wonder if there is a way to switch input method faster than pulling down the notification bar and clicking select input method?

I have a keyboard problem with my Samsung Galaxy Alpha (SM-G850F, I know it's an old model, but it has significant sentimental value to me): after a crash, some keyboard languages disappeared and I am unable to reinstall them, the list of available languages doesn't even load: I saved the logcat when the "Failed to download language list" error appears, and there is an entry which says the version number is corrupted: It seems to try to read it from this hyperlink, which looks broken: https://redirect.client-wifi.com/login.html?redirect=samsungresources.visionobjects.com/13i92/latest.txt . However, the part after the equal sign still works, and the text file remains accessible. I have tried restarting the device and deleting the data of the Samsung Keyboard to no avail. I am not interested in third-party keyboards such as SwiftKey or GBoard, I just want the French Samsung keyboard I'm used to back. Samsung support has not been able to provide a solution, unfortunately, and the same question was also asked on XDA Forums (it seems some other people have the same problem), but so far, no luck either. Does anyone know what the https://redirect.client-wifi.com/login.html ? part of the URL is? Is it a local address? Is it just a case of Samsung fixing the redirection link? Alternatively, is there a way to download the Samsung language pack and install it myself? (Apologies if the question sounds basic, but I don't really have any knowledge in this area.)

When I am using a physical keyboard, there is a toolbar that appears while I am typing that displays 3 words of predictive text available to autocomplete as I am typing. Surely there must be a way to choose a word from the autocomplete list with a shortcut on the physical keyboard? Specifically, I would like to use the center word from the autocomplete list. It takes more time to remove my hand from the physical keyboard to click on the word from the autocomplete list than it does to just finish typing the complete word. See the following screenshot for and example of what I am talking about: In this screenshot, I would like to complete the word "their" using the center word in the autocomplete list without clicking on it. EDIT: This is on a Google Pixel 6 using Gboard.

I have a Moto G5 Stylus 2023 on Android 14. I **need** to be able to enter a backtick, but every Android keyboard I've tried (Unexpected Keyboard, GBoard, Hacker's Keyboard, MS SwiftKey) I use makes the backtick act as a deadkey. This happens even when I highlight text to be used as a code block (markdown) and use the app's UI to convert it to a code block, it still converts the required backtick(s) to diacritic accents. I connected a physical keyboard (USB via USB2Go cable), and the backtick still acted as a dead key. As this is affecting all keyboards similarly, I'm assuming this is some type of system-wide setting/behavior, but I can't see any setting that would control this. What am I missing here?

Say, I want to have the Emoji Keyboard for Facebook and Twitter, but the Google Indic keyboard for my WhatsApp. Is it possible to have a different keyboard for different apps? If it's relevant, my phone is an HTC Desire 820 on Android 5.1.

I've tried using the linux key combination but it didn't work. https://unicode-explorer.com/articles/how-to-type-unicode-characters-in-linux I'm using a Motorola Edge 2022 using stock android Edit: I'm looking for a way to achieve this without root

Same question as https://android.stackexchange.com/q/253455/557726 Closed here and go see there for follow up. I have a Galaxy Tab S7 and a Logitech K810 keyboard. I am used to the US-International keyboard configuration, but I am unable to impose it via any means. I tried Logitech apps, Samsung apps, third-party keyboard apps and it just won't stick. The main writing software is google docs, but any writing doesn't keep the US-International configuration, if it even allows me to choose it. Also I am not competent enough to write an app myself.

On iOS, you can just click Pinyin with traditional characters and it takes all of two seconds. When I pick traditional characters on Android OS, it defaults to Zhuyin which I have no idea how to use. I can't find an option anywhere to change the input method from Zhuyin. How do you get pinyin input with traditional output on Android OS **without** installing 3rd-party apps?

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Since I have a broken back button I have remapped my buttons in such a way that my original volume up button functions as a menu button, and my original menu button as the back button. I've done this by changing the key values in /system/usr/keylayout/generic.kl. The problem is, I've flashed a new ROM so I had to do it again, but now it doesn't work anymore. The changed values are persistent but my phone ignores it, it seems. And yes, of course I've rebooted after making the changes again. Anyone have an idea?

I am using Shelter to create an isolated space for apps which I don't trust very much and to disable them when I am not using. Shelter works by creating a work profile in Android and registering itself as the administrator, thus granting it rights to disable apps. This has been working great in my Android 8 phone, but I recently got a new phone which comes with Android 10, and unfortunately it looks like I can no longer share the same keyboard in work profile apps. This is important to me because I use KeePass2Android to store my passwords and it provides a virtual keyboard to automatically input credentials into any text field. Is there any way to get back the old functionality and be able to use personal keyboards in work apps?

Is there any way to type fractions in a single character like ⅝ using a keyboard in Android?

My new phone has this keyboard My old phone has this one, which I prefer How do I get the old keyboard on the new phone? I think it's a Sony Xperia with Android 14.

Do any versions of Google's "Voice Typing" work completely offline? Note that when I specify ***"completely offline"***, I mean with absolutely no data sent to Google or other parties.

For some reason, I changed my keyboard to Greek, yet my password is in English. I am unable to enter the password to unlock the phone. I can't pair with Bluetooth without unlocking, and there is no option to change the language of the keyboard. The device is a Sony Xperia Z, Android 4.4, not rooted, and using the default keyboard, if it's relevant. Any help is greatly appreciated.