saravanan-vdg / florisboard

An open-source keyboard for Android. Currently in early-alpha/alpha stage.

FlorisBoard

An open-source keyboard for Android. Currently in early-alpha/alpha stage.

Feature roadmap

Basics

• Implementation of the keyboard core (InputMethodService)
• Own implementation of deprecated KeyboardView (base only)
• Caps + Caps Lock
• Key popups
• Extended key popups (e.g. a -> á, à, ä, ...) (needs tweaks for emojis)
• Key press sound/vibration
• Portrait orientation support
• Landscape orientation support (needs tweaks)
• Tablet screen support

Layouts

• Latin character layout (QWERTY)
• Other character layouts (both latin and non-latin) (Currently QWERTZ and AZERTY are supported besides QWERTY)
• Adapt to situation in app (password, url, text, etc. )
• Special character layout(s)
• Numeric layout
• Numeric layout (advanced)
• Phone number layout
• Emoji layout (popups buggy atm)
• Emoticon layout
• Kaomoji layout

Preferences

• Setup wizard
• Preferences screen
• Customize look and behaviour of keyboard (currently only light/dark theme)
• Theme customization
• Theme import/export (?)
• Subtype selection (language/layout)
• Keyboard behaviour preferences
• Text suggestion / Auto correct preferences
• Gesture preferences

Composing suggestions

• Auto suggest words from precompiled dictionary
• Auto suggest words from user dictionary
• Auto suggest contacts
• Multilingual typing

Other useful features

• One-handed mode
• Clipboard manager (?)
• Floating keyboard
• Gesture support
• Glide typing (?)
• Full integration in IME service list of Android (xml/method) (integration is internal-only, because Android's default subtype implementation not really allows for dynamic language/layout pairs, only compile-time defined ones)
• (dev only) Generate well-structured documentation of code
• ...

Note: (?) = not sure if it will be implemented

Used libraries and icons

• Google Flexbox Layout for Android by google
• Google Material icons by google
• Moshi JSON library by square

License

Copyright 2020 Patrick Goldinger

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.