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Android (f/w 4.0.3+, API level 15+) on screen keyboard for multiple languages.
Sign up to beta-channel here. Beta versions are pushed via Google Play Store.
- All kinds of keyboards:
- Supporting lots of languages via external packages. E.g., English (QWERTY, Dvorak, AZERTY, Colemak, and Workman), Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Lao, Bulgarian, Swiss, German, Swedish, Spanish, Catalan, Belarusian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and many more.
- Special keyboard for text fields which require only numbers.
- Special keyboard for text fields which require email or URI addresses.
- Physical keyboard is supported as-well.
- Auto-capitalization.
- Word suggestions, and Next-Word suggestions.
- Automatic correction can be customized, or turned off entirely.
- External packages include word lists that can be freely mixed. You can use a French layout and get suggestions for German and Russian!
- Gesture typing.
- Dark mode, automatic (based on system) and manual.
- Power saving mode, disables various features to save battery.
- Per-app tint, the keyboard changes color depending on the current app.
- Special key-press effects:
- Sound on key press (if phone is not muted).
- Vibrate on key press.
- Voice input.
- Incognito Mode - will not learn new words, will not keep history of what was typed (including emoji history).
- Plenty of emojis - long-press the smiley key. You customize those by clicking the Settings icon in emojis window.
- More on AnySoftKeyboard can be found here.
- Every commit to main branch will deploy a new release to the ALPHA channel in Google Play-Store. You can subscribe to this release channel by joining the Google Groups group, and opt-in by visiting this link.
- Every Wednesday the latest ALPHA will be promoted to BETA. You can opt-in to this channel by visiting this link.
- Once all requirements for a release were finished, a STABLE release branch (in the format of
release-branch-ime-vX.X-rX) will be cut. Every commit to this branch will be automatically published to Google Play Store (STABLE channel) and will roll-out users gradually.
- Every commit to main branch will deploy all addons to closed-testing ALPHA channel in Google Play-Store. If you want to subscribe to this channel, open a (ticket)[AnySoftKeyboard#3391] and asking to join.
- Every Wednesday the latest ALPHA will be promoted to BETA. This is only for supported packs. The BETA channel is an open-testing group, you can subscribe to this release channel by joining the BETA channel for each addon.
- Once all requirements for a release were finished, a STABLE release branch (in the format of
release-branch-addons-vX.X-rX) will be cut. Every commit to this branch will be automatically published to Google Play Store (STABLE channel) and will roll-out users gradually.
- Each new commit to the release-branch will be published to 10% of the users.
- Each day - if no new commit was pushed to the release-branch - we will increase the roll-out.
- When roll-out reaches 100%, an fdroid release will be made.
- Each new commit to the release-branch will be published to 10% of the users.
- Each day - if no new commit was pushed to the release-branch - we will increase the roll-out.
- Our fancy web-site
- Language-Pack add-ons in this repo.
- Theme add-ons in this repo.
- Quick-Text add-ons in this repo.
- Crowdin to translate the app to your language.
- Via Bountysource, users can post bounties and developers can claim them when fixing bugs. This is an external community project and not directly sponsored by the ASK developers!
Want to develop a new feature, fix a bug, or add new language-pack? Read more here. Contributors should adhere to the (Code-of-Conduct)[CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md] document.
Remember: the components in this repository are released under the Apache2 license. By contributing to this repository you give all copyright and distribution rights to the AnySoftKeyboard maintainer.
Copyright 2009 Menny Even-Danan
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