Hackerskeyboard: Feature request: reordering accented letters
Would it be possible to customize accented letters order? I'm from Portugal and it takes too long for me to pick letters like ó ô õ ê é à ú which are very common, as they are too far. It would be awesome if I could rearrange them myself to my own needs.
avariado
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unfortunately, you can't change accented letters order as a user, but if you are a familiar with Android studio or eclipse I can guide you to rearrange them by yourself, let's take the e key in the french keyboard as an example:
go to the french (fr) keyboard XML in your resource folder java/res/xml-fr/kbd_qwerty.xml and look for android:keyLabel="e" Line40, the accented letters are in the android:popupCharacters if you are on the right path the line must be looks like this android:popupCharacters="@string/alternates_for_e" Line42, now we have to change the order from the alternates_for_e , you can find it in java/res/values-fr/donottranslate-altchars.xml Line22, now the only thing you have to do is changing the letters between the tag (3èéêë€ in our case) <string name="alternates_for_e">3èéêë€</string>
hope this is helpful for your issue.
yassine987
on 15 Oct 2016
yassine987 WOW... that's awesome. I'm kind of newbie on those issues, but I'm aware of those softwares and even tried editing apk before with APK Multi-Tool, so I understand what you're saying and definitely will try it anytime soon. Thank you so much for taking your time to share with me those amazing tips, I really appreciated that. :)
avariado
on 15 Oct 2016
YES! I knew I would get there, thanks to your help I "hacked" Hacker's Keyboard, haha :D
I used the tool I knew (APK-Multi-Tool-WIP-2.0), perhaps not the best method but it did the job. Made the changes on \res\values-pt\strings.xml, recompiled, and then I was afraid not to be able to sign the apk but the script option nº 20 worked fine.
So this is perfect, now I can write faster than ever on this great keyboard, thank you so much, yassine987!
avariado
on 16 Oct 2016
Nice to hear that ^_^
yassine987
on 16 Oct 2016
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unfortunately, you can't change accented letters order as a user, but if you are a familiar with Android studio or eclipse I can guide you to rearrange them by yourself, let's take the e key in the french keyboard as an example:
go to the french (fr) keyboard XML in your resource folder
java/res/xml-fr/kbd_qwerty.xmland look forandroid:keyLabel="e"Line40, the accented letters are in theandroid:popupCharactersif you are on the right path the line must be looks like thisandroid:popupCharacters="@string/alternates_for_e"Line42, now we have to change the order from the alternates_for_e , you can find it injava/res/values-fr/donottranslate-altchars.xmlLine22, now the only thing you have to do is changing the letters between the tag (3èéêë€in our case)<string name="alternates_for_e">3èéêë€</string>hope this is helpful for your issue.