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[Android Apps and Games] free3dom:
FC on Wildfire

Hi,

I'm using 'gbkb-en.apk' and get FCs as soon as I touch (or release?) a key. The stuff in the suggestion area above the keys do work.

Running on HTC Wildfire Stock 2.1-update1 (Eclaire) v1.16.421.1

Logcat attached (after two recorded FCs).

I have tried it with all combinations of settings, and still no luck.

Thanks for the effort
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
that's the one i've been trying to use, but for some reason it's not giving any suggestions when i set the language to greek. i'm getting the same thing for hebrew, which at first made me think it has problems with non-latin alphabets, but russian is working fine... if anyone has any ideas what the problem could be, please let me know. i'm running out of ideas on this one.

hmm, that one might take some time to figure out... it just says there was an unhandled exception, not what type of exception it was. i can probably just have it skip over the code where the exception is happening without causing too much badness, but i don't want to do that for all devices, just ones that have this problem... i think it may be because of the wildfire's much lower than normal screen density, so i think for now i'll use that as the criterion for whether to skip that code or not.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
Does this one make any difference?

Why cant you use the greek dictionary from the htc_ime keyboard source code?
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
that's in some weird binary format, and i can't even tell if it includes word frequency data or not.

that doesn't appear to contain any dictionaries.

also, i have a greek dictionary that should work. the problem is that it isn't using it. it's extremely unlikely that using a different dictionary will fix that.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
Could you at least add the greek layout on the languages list in the keyboard even without having suggestions?

Thanks for the fast responses and the interest you're showing :)
[Android Apps and Games] marinos35:
Greek layout available with renamed, but not with original. Running cm7 unnofficial nightly
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
I'm on stock 2.2.1 with nexus one and there is no option for greek language on this keyboard!
[Android Apps and Games] ezio84:
Thank you very much, this keyboard works like a charm on the new Vodafone official rom.

I did an italian only version with Apk_Manager_4.9:

- decompiled;

- removed all non

-IT

files in RES dir;

- edited xml files to solve the "&amp" and ">" problem (changed

&amp

to

&

and

&lt;

to

<

);

- recompiled;

- signed;

- zipaligned

Is this last step (zipalign) useful?

Italian apk attached to this post :)
[Android Apps and Games] wallla:
Zipaligning doesn't hurt. It's recommended.

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/zipalign.html
[Android Apps and Games] ezio84:
Thank you! :)
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
the problem with that is that greek isn't in the list of available locales returned by your rom. even if i add it to the list, the normal locale functions for getting stuff like language name and country name won't work. so i have to re-implement a bunch of java.util.Locale to add languages on the devices where they don't show up in the list.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
I see... thanks for the response! Can't wait to see this implemented :)
[Android Apps and Games] essjay09:
Getting a force close on a Desire HD. Have no idea why!
[Android Apps and Games] spirol:
Works flawless on my X8 (2.1) :-D

Real nice with the Scandinavian layout ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] BozQ:
I've been trying to point this out many times.

You can work around this by going into the keyboard settings, and turn on/off "Show Settings Button". Somehow, the presence/absence of one key will actually set the keys right. At least that how I managed to get it fixed on my Milestone.
[Android Apps and Games] Raadius:
Is the Gingerbread keyboard better than the Froyo? The Froyo keyboard is a nightmare. It never learns any of my texting, gives me wrong words or cant keep up, its a mess lol.
[Android Apps and Games] chainedangle:
ty , i tried it it works
[Android Apps and Games] Marco.Lai:
hello

i am using htc desire, the rom is oxygen rc6, android 2.3

and i wanna know do you have CHT keyboard?
[Android Apps and Games] TechNoir:
Just want to add my 2 cents and thank the OP for the work of getting this keyboard out to us. I am pretty sure this is the same Gingerbread keyboard version that is also bundled in Darky's latest ROM, and it works a treat so far, both the haptic feedback aswell as dictionaries. I will be using this for the forseeable future, thank alot for your work!
[Android Apps and Games] ogre_x:
I just did the same for a Swedish version, keeping only raw-sv and raw-en.
[Android Apps and Games] marinos35:
Actually the greek layout doesn't appear on other Greek devices with their stock 2.2.1 or 2.1, which is hard for me to believe that they don't have greek locale since everything is in greek at those roms.
[Android Apps and Games] gcimpers1:
Beautiful keyboard, only problem is that Hrvatski (Croatian) layout needs Z and Y replaced :D
[Android Apps and Games] essjay09:
Bit more of an explination.

I've installed both files and each time I can get the keyboard to appear but once I type any text I get the force close error.

Can anyone advise me as to what to try next?
[Android Apps and Games] wallla:
Post a log, like told in the first posting.
[Android Apps and Games] destroman:
Force Close on DHD. is there a fix for this ? Im trolled through about 30 pages here and alot of people having the same issue but no answers.
[Android Apps and Games] Rrryan2:
Doh. Appreciate all your efforts and I love the accuracy, but without voice recognition it's back to the stock keyboard for me. Or maybe I just need to bite the bullet and switch to Cognition I guess.

(Samsung Captivate 2.1, stock ROM)
[Android Apps and Games] Terranigmus:
I'm sorry this probably has been asked before but the thread is huge.

For German I need the bigger one, right? The 7mb file.

After installing it on my Galaxy S I9000 I need to long press any input field, right?

Only Samsung Keybord and Swype Keybord are showing :(

Froyo.
[Android Apps and Games] ekie84:
Did you active it on the setting>keyboard?
[Android Apps and Games] Terranigmus:
I am dumb.

Thank you for pointing that out.
[Android Apps and Games] testerqwerty:
My experience

I was also working on the Gingerbread keyboard but not not for the same purpose at the programmers of this project. I am making a new keyboard layout "celluar input method" and now it is in google market.

Because I met the same problem as the developers so I shared some experience with you here.

The reason for "force close" on htc wildfire, HD etc. I guess it is the problem of platform compatiblity on the code LatinKeyboard.getTextSizeFromTheme()

TypedArray array = mContext.getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(

style, new int[] { android.R.attr.textSize });

int textSize = array.getDimensionPixelSize(array.getResourceId(0, 0), defValue);

return textSize;

}

check groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/6355d554d256b38a/94fd0a71851d772f?lnk=raot

I simply swallowed the exception and gave an default value. HTC will fix it someday I suppose.

For the key is too small problem I think the reason is the usage of inch as size:

check the dimens.xml

<!-- key_height + key_bottom_gap = popup_key_height -->

<dimen name="key_height">0.290in</dimen>

<dimen name="key_bottom_gap">0.035in</dimen>

<dimen name="popup_key_height">0.325in</dimen>

<dimen name="keyboard_bottom_padding">0.06in</dimen>

It is not fully supported on some types of phones. I changed to the old dip instead.
[Android Apps and Games] ekie84:
is your keyboard compatible with the milestone?
[Android Apps and Games] redox57:
Have you tried to rename the values directories by adding the main regional code associated to the language ?

That's what I did for the gbkb I put in my MIUI version, and every language is now shown.

values-da-rDK values-el-rGR values-es-rES values-fr-rCA values-fr-rFR
values-ja-rJP values-nl-rNL values-rm-rIT values-sr-rSR values-tr-rTR
values-zh-rTW values-cs-rCZ values-de-rDE values-en-rUS values-es-rUS
values-fr-rCH values-it-rIT values-ko-rKR values-nb-rNO values-pl-rPL
values-pt-rPT values-ru-rRU values-sv-rSE values-zh-rCN
[Android Apps and Games] eldis:
Thanks a lot, redox57. That trick enables me to see Finnish on my Milestone 2.1-u1 with this renamed GB keyboard.

Edit: added Finnish version (includes Finnish and English dictionaries and layouts)

Edit2: new version of the Finnish layout with numbers in top row popups

Buy me a pint.
[Android Apps and Games] nrd\:
hi, just want to say this is a very nice keyboard, i prefer it to swype and stock android keyboard. its very accurate and easy to type on.

not sure if someone can answer a quick question, i cant see a option in the settings but is this keyboard in landscape mode, able to show non-full screen i.e. you can view the text box when you type in landscape rather than it show the whole keyboard on the screen?

if not can this be requested?

thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
How do you do this? I want to enable Greek on this keyboard for nexus one stock 2.2.1 .
[Android Apps and Games] testerqwerty:
As I know originally milestone is android 2.0. This application can only support 2.1 or above.
[Android Apps and Games] ekie84:
All milestone has been updated to 2.1.1
[Android Apps and Games] testerqwerty:
Maybe my answer in this post can help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=915756
[Android Apps and Games] kalex12:
Sorry for noobs question,

what I must change? Can I make it myself? Or it need deep knowledges? I cannot find where I can make this changes.
[Android Apps and Games] Atmoforce:
Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum.

I've an Archos 70 with android 2.2, and I've installed this gingerbread keyboard (gbkb.apk). The device install the keyboard, and after that I select "Gingerbread Keyboard" from the options. The problem is that the keyboard appears, but it don't show the letters of the keys, but however it allows me to write "using my memory", because the keyboard fisically appears.

Anyone else has found this problem?

Thanks for your answers. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Crash2k:
hey, do you still plan on releasing a new version with the fixed font size?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
i do, but it looks like i probably won't be able to do it until friday or saturday at the earliest.

lots of stuff going on with family right now, and between looking for a job and working on various android projects i haven't been getting nearly enough sleep.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
Do you also plan to release a new version with the new directories values that redox57 mentioned? Plz :)
[Android Apps and Games] Math-Uhhh-Sarus:
Not letting me download it

I tried downloading the keyboard (gbkb.apk) from my phone. It says:

"<Unknown>

xdaforums.com

Cannot download. The content is not supported on this phone."

I have a rooted 2.1 LG Ally and I'm using Trident's (on androidfourms.com) Velocity 0.4.

I'm going to try and download it to my comp, put it on my sd card, and try installing it from there. I'll let y'all know if it works :] Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] StrathoDroid:
Tnx Ezio, great job!
[Android Apps and Games] Math-Uhhh-Sarus:
It worked! Typing on it now :] thank-you so much!
[Android Apps and Games] redox57:
Please find attached my version with resources directories renamed.

I do not know why, but on MIUI, only 18 languages are shown, although my apk contains 21 languages... (seems to be ja, ko & zh languages that are missing !)
[Android Apps and Games] bsweetness:
Working great on my Droid X. It's so much easier to type on. I might have to give Swipe a rest for a bit. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rabidrotty:
You rock this keyboard kicks @ss thank you even my wife likes is and she's not really into techy stuff keep up the great work

Nexus One stock froyo 2.21

Simply amazing guys thank you again
[Android Apps and Games] f150fan:
I really like this port, thanks! But like some other Motorola users, it looks pretty small on my Droid X. Anyone have a fix for this?
[Android Apps and Games] bulldog212:
This is cool. I'm no keyboard whore but I've been using the Vlingo keyboard for awhile now and this Gingerbread looks very much like a Vlingo ripoff. (Though the Vlingo may be a ripoff of something else, I have not sampled many).
[Android Apps and Games] anupamdeoarya:
Many thanks

I've been looking for some really functional keyboard for touch screen typing for a while now but could not find anything thats free. Many thanks to you...boon for me..literally...:)
[Android Apps and Games] terrence1019:
hi

WORKS GREAT!!!

btw, can u fix the glitch on the motorola droid x keyboard? the same & and &lt glitches?
[Android Apps and Games] shauder:
Is this keyboard supposed to be full multitouch? I have problems when holding shift and another key to capitolize it the keyboard sort of bugs out. Does anyone else have this problem or know how it really is supposed to work on the 2.2 or 2.3 devices?
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
that's the result of a bug in apktool. every time you unpack an apk that has any xml files with "&" in them, it turns them into "&", so "&" and "<" (which show as "&" and "<") become "&amp;" and "&lt;" (which show as "&" and "<"). you just have to go through and change them back before you rebuild the apk.

no, it doesn't do multitouch.
[Android Apps and Games] zigackly:
has anyone found the enter (return) key ?
[Android Apps and Games] jackzepplin:
Works on the HTC Hero CDMA w/6.1.1 cyanogen mod. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
just go to type anywhere there's a multi-line text input (the xda app, tapatalk, any web page with a textarea...) and it should show it.
[Android Apps and Games] ironlood:
Okay I understand... I thought that it would be easy to do but realized that they just pushed out the Gingerbread Source.

Also I noticed that the gingerbread keyboard uses a newer text editor will that be portable as well

Sent from my futuristic phone
[Android Apps and Games] psychomaniac189:
i had to uninstall the old keyboard to get it to work.
[Android Apps and Games] asyyy:
Fc on HTC legend 2.2 upon touching the keyboard after bringing it up for text field
[Android Apps and Games] armantaleser:
it doesn't work in my mdj froyo 4.4 with htc sense. can anybody help me with this please.

i need this keyboard. hate the htc one.
[Android Apps and Games] Almighty1:
I tried using the 2.2 version on my Motorola DROID 1 running froyo 2.2.1 FRG83 and it force closes as soon as I select it as a input method and it keeps force closing upon bootup until I change the input method to something else.

A logcat can be found at:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=LA1dZGsx
[Android Apps and Games] rabidrotty:
Found one flaw no enter/return key on text messages I wonder if this is a gingerbread flaw or was something overlooked on this port?

Nexus One stock 2.2.1
[Android Apps and Games] kingcy23:
Thanks OP!

Nice and usable standard keyboard. My only beef is with the letter popups, they are far too long making it difficult to anticipate the next letter since the space popup is black and fills 1/3 of the screen with pressed. i turned it off for now...
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
that's not a flaw, that's how it's supposed to be. you already have a "send" button right above the keyboard.
[Android Apps and Games] hotaru:
looks like it's having problems loading the native library (.so file)... should be able to fix that by compiling it from source.
[Android Apps and Games] artisticcheese:
Can not install this one. Installation fails "Application not installed". I'm on ATT Captivate 2.2
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
Same thing here... Nexus one stock 2.2.1
[Android Apps and Games] redox57:
Can you please try this one ? It seems that I forgot to sign it correctly...
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
It's working perfectly fine!!! :) Well done! :) I have Greek layout now!

Let's only hope for a dictionary in the near future! But really happy to have this one now! thanks a lot

PS

Can you actually do the same thing for the english dictionary only version? I dont need all the other dictionaries! :)
[Android Apps and Games] artisticcheese:
Excellent job. Thanks, finally can see Russian as available language.
[Android Apps and Games] blakeaholics:
Hey, I've got a Motorola Milestone, running 2.1 and I tried this keyboard which does work just not properly. It installs, it shows up, but its teeny tiny.

Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] cosotas:
here gingerbread keyboard with Greek language ;)
[Android Apps and Games] eldis:
Try turning the 'Show settings key' in the Gingerbread keyboard settings to 'Always hide'. That works for me, but if I switch to landscape mode the letters become tiny again.

ps. You can still find the settings from the comma-popup.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
Is there also greek dictionary or just the layout? Because I already have the greek layout. :)
[Android Apps and Games] cosotas:
and dictionary.
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
I dont even have greek layout when i install this version! Thanks anyway!

redox57's version works fine :)
[Android Apps and Games] cosotas:
you have make a mistake on something. the keyboard works fine on me. Greek layout and dictionary. check the gingerbread keybord settings-language & keyboard and check the ελληνικα.open the sms to write a message. from here go to input method and check again the gingerbread keyboard. sorry for my bad english
[Android Apps and Games] paulprog:
hi.. Greek layout is working fine for me, but the dictionary is not. In the settings it shows that the dictionary is available but when i'm writing a message nothing shows up.. the English dictionary works fine by the way.
[Android Apps and Games] cosotas:
and the dictionary works. it show to bar up to the letters.
[Android Apps and Games] paulprog:
yes but it wont work for me.. i can't figure out why.. may be 'cause i'm using Oxygen ROM.. thanx
[Android Apps and Games] dancer_69:
greek dictionary

Did I missed something?

On first post, as you see, there isn't any mention for greek dictionary.

How could be available?

In language input screen there isn't any "dictionary available" lebel on greek.

Do you have a different version that that on first post?

EDIT:

Oups, sorry. I just see the link of cosotas.

I missed some posts in previus page.

I will try it now.

Thnks
[Android Apps and Games] adamspir:
I have already done the same things... But i dont even get an option for greek in the languages list. It has to do with the rom. I'm on stock 2.2.1 on nexus one.

With redox57's version i get greek as a an option in the languages list but i just dont have a greek dictionary. redox57 changed something on the languages values to make the greek language appear as an option in all roms.
[Android Apps and Games] dancer_69:
I just tried greek version and greek dictionary doesn't work.

I can see that the greek dictionary is available in language input screen, but it doesn't work in messages. English dictionary works fine, but greek doesn't. Appear only some greek contact names instead of dictionary words.
[Android Apps and Games] Quilombo:
Just installed this on my HTC Inc and it looks nice. Real nice indeed. Thanks for posting.
[Android Apps and Games] Magic2010:
Really nice on HTC Magic :cool:

Thks
[Android Apps and Games] azturbomini:
Works pretty good so far. A bit small though. Samsung Facinate "Unrooted"
[Android Apps and Games] blakeaholics:
the settings for the keyboard won't change. I set them and they reset.
[Android Apps and Games] oOnEe:
It doesn't work on my Desire...

If I choose both english & french versions, it crashes w/o showing up. If I only choose the french version, it crashes when I press a key.

I'm running the rom DHD Baadnwz 1.7 on my Desire. Do you have any idea on what I could do to make it work ?
[Android Apps and Games] kalex12:
Works great

O thanks. Now Russian is available for me.
[Android Apps and Games] sacschumac:
i love the keyboard, much better than anything ive tried before (trust me I have tried MANY!) only one thing, can i customize it any further? the orange black theme is starting to bore me:(
[Android Apps and Games] theeedy:
Small letters on Sony Ericsson X10 @2.1
[Android Apps and Games] luhu:
Same on my brothers defy!
[Android Apps and Games] matgarro:
italian??

but how can I have the italian language? i've got htc desire hd root with miui rom (froyo 2.2) thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] kalex12:
I think the same other languages: go into Gingerbread keyboard settings\ input language and choose Italino.
[Android Apps and Games] 95EGCoupeVTEC:
the new version is much smaller onscreen than the old version for 2.1, but the other problems are fixed. the keyboard is like a row of keys smaller! everything functions great besides the smaller than stock onscreen size. i can't use it like that lol. i'm running a Samsung Moment with Radioactive FroYo 1.8.22 Rom and ixane 5.5 kernel. its a vanilla rom.
[Android Apps and Games] PacificV2:
I have been using this in lieu of my stock keyboard and so far I'm loving it. However it seems I can't use autocomplete with a Portuguese dictionary. Can someone with lots of dictionaries installed confirm it doesn't work? Thanks in advance.

I'm running ota 2.2 sense on my desire.
[Android Apps and Games] lexluthor:
How is what's in this thread different from this?

http://www.appbrain.com/app/keyboard-from-android-2-3/com.moo.android.inputmethod.latin.free

I installed that one yesterday and really like it.

Is this better or different?
[Android Apps and Games] geertbro:
Fantastic, it works on my HTC Desire. Only problem is my internal phone storage is running out of space. How can I solve this?

I have been looking around for the APK with just FR-Belgium as this would make the APK smaller in size. (like gbkb-en.apk 1.03Mb)

I tried opening,resigning the package but Java seems too complicated for me. Any ideas?

Thankx for the great upload
[Android Apps and Games] eldis:
geertbro, try using the Apk Manager. It was fairly easy. Just put the big apk found in the first post in this thread to the 'place-apk-here-for-modding' folder and decompile it. Then remove unnecessary raw, values and xml-folders, compile and sign. No Java skills necessary.
[Android Apps and Games] bobbyphoenix:
That's for 2.2 or higher. This one is for 2.1
[Android Apps and Games] lexluthor:
Otherwise, it's basically the same thing?

It looks and works great, I think. I use swype mainly, but when I don't this is the best standard keyboard I've used yet.
[Android Apps and Games] wilydodger:
Right Arrow Tab Button by spacebar

"What is this right arrow/tab button and how do I get rid of it?"

"Does anyone know what the purpose of this thing is? It seems to just eat into the spacebar."

Seriously, does anyone know how to get rid of that tab button by the spacebar? I makes it near impossible to type a modified search on google. I keep fat fingering it and jumping around on the page...
[Android Apps and Games] tosonny:
How can I remove dictionaries for any languages I am not going to use?
[Android Apps and Games] funny74:
here is the fix: (must be rooted)

edit the "/system/build.prop" file to add "qemu.sf.lcd_density=240"
[Android Apps and Games] pp63.1:
Download signapk.zip from a Google search

Rename the apk with ".zip" suffix

Unzip the file to a temporary directory

Remove any unwanted dictionnary (in the res subdirectory) and the meta-inf directory

Zip the files to "gbkb.zip".

Unzip in the same directory the signapk.zip ; have a look at the readme file. Please download and install the latest Java JRE from Oracle.

From the temporary directory, open a command prompt and launch : java -jar signapk.jar testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 gbkb.zip gbkb-signed.zip

Rename the gbkb-signed.zip to gbkb.apk.

That's all
[Android Apps and Games] Crash2k:
@hotaru

any updates on an ETA for a keyboard with fixed font sizes for the motorola milestone?

thanks, your work is greatly appreciated