If you are missing the familiar keyboard layout used on a PC or laptop, Hacker`s Keyboard is exactly the application that will allow you to achieve the same functionality. virtual keyboard on the screen of any android gadget. Separate row of numeric keys, cursor control buttons and all the familiar function keys in their places. Multi-touch support provides modifiers (Alt, Ctrl, Shift).
This keyboard is ideal for SSH access to other devices using ConnectBot. Esc, Tab and others familiar to standard PC keyboards will allow you to achieve full functionality on your smartphone or tablet, as if you were holding a laptop or desktop with a full keyboard. Spelling checker with support for 14 languages is implemented through additional plugins, any of which you can download and install if necessary. The modular principle of connecting dictionaries saves the memory of your device and allows you to optimize the work with the keyboard to the extent necessary. Due to the large number of keys, the application is more convenient to use on tablets or smartphones with a large screen diagonal. To improve the convenience of your work, you can independently set the dimensions of the keyboard and the size of the symbols on the keys.
Key features and functions
- full-size PC keyboard on the screen of the gadget;
- functionality of modifier keys (multi-touch support);
- connecting dictionaries and layouts with separate plugins;
- Russian language support (dictionary and layout);
- the ability to connect dictionaries from third-party developers;
- designed for tablets.
In landscape orientation, the layout of this keyboard is almost completely similar to the usual 101-key computer keyboard, which gives good advantages when typing.
Before you start using Hacker "s Keyboard, you need to configure everything correctly. Let's divide each action into points:
- After launching the application from the desktop or Application Menu, click on the Configure input method button. You will be taken to the Language and input system settings section, where you need to check the box next to Hacker "s Keyboard. A standard warning will appear, which you can safely ignore (at of this application there are no rights to collect the information you enter, so don't worry about data security).
- After that, go back to main screen by pressing the Back button on the device. Then click on the button below - Set current input method. In the pop-up window, mark this keyboard as the main input method.
- The keyboard is now configured as the default keyboard, but that's not all, as additional dictionaries need to be loaded. To do this, click on Get dictionaries and download the dictionaries you need from Google play(the weight of one dictionary does not exceed 1 megabyte).
- After successful download, go back to the main screen and click Input Languages. Now select the languages in which you will type the text from the list. This completes the setup.
As you can see from the screenshots, the layout Hacker "s Keyboard very similar to a computer keyboard. A nice moment was to see the block of arrows, which helps to move through the text much faster than just clicking on the desired point. The tongue is changed by holding your finger on the space, and then shifting to either side. The Fn key provides access to the dial, as well as standard buttons for computer keyboards: block of keys F1-F12, Home, End, PageUp and PageDown and others. Unfortunately, using the F1-F12 block will not work, since they are simply not programmed for use in these applications (I mean the Gmail client). When entering the text, which is in the screenshot, I made 3 mistakes, and then only because I was not yet used to the location of the buttons. I typed with both hands and did not feel any discomfort. The keyboard stands out a lot from the others, and I hope you share this little joy with me. Enjoy your use!
There is a non-standard for devices mobile communications layout of buttons, and also added some buttons from the computer keyboard, such as "Ctrl", "Shift", "Alt", F2 "," F10 "and others. It should be noted that this application is completely free, which allows users to enjoy the virtual keyboard at any time.
Installation and use
Installation of "Hacker" s Keyboard "is quite convenient and simple. After launching the program, you need to put a check in front of this application in the device settings. After that, the program must be selected as the main input method. similar programs"Hacker" s Keyboard has a wider functionality. There is a computer layout of the keys, as well as the corresponding punctuation marks, a separate digital block and much more. Such a keyboard will be very useful in certain applications that require such elements.
What is the game
It should be noted that "Hacker" s Keyboard "supports more than twenty languages, which is very convenient for most users. This kind of virtual keyboard will suit those users who are accustomed to the computer layout and do not want to get used to it. Many users have already appreciated the advantages of this virtual keyboard. keyboard, as evidenced by the number of downloads and numerous positive reviews.
In this article, we will look at how to install a keyboard on a device running Android OS, which will allow us to easily change the input language to the desired one.
On this moment already exists big choice keyboards on Android devices that take into account the different functional and taste preferences of people. We will not dwell on the many keyboard options, comparing their capabilities, this article is more intended to help beginners understand how to install and use the keyboard on Android.
Our choice fell on a convenient on-screen keyboard - Hacker "s Keyboard.
This keyboard is very similar to a computer keyboard. It contains separate keys with letters, numbers, punctuation marks, arrow keys and even Fn keys.
Hacker "s Keyboard supports various keyboard layouts that can be easily changed by simply swiping over the spacebar:
Armenian (Հայերեն)
Armenian (العربية)
Bulgarian (български език)
Czech (Čeština)
Danish (dansk)
English Dvorak (language "en_DV")
English QWERTY (QWERTY)
English / British (en_GB)
Finnish (Suomi)
French (Français, AZERTY)
German (Deutsch, QWERTZ)
Greek (ελληνικά)
Hebrew (עברית)
Italian (Italiano)
Lao (ພາ ສາ ລາວ)
Norwegian (Norsk bokmål)
Persian (فارسی)
Portuguese (Português)
Romanian (Română)
Russian (Russian)
Russian phonetic (Russian, ru-rPH)
Serbian (Srpski)
Slovak (Slovenčina)
Croatian / Bosnian (Slovenščina) / Bosnian / Croatian / Latin Serbian
Spanish (Español)
Swedish (Svenska)
Thai (ไทย)
Turkish (Türkçe)
Ukrainian (Ukrainian mova).
Let's move on to the process of installing and configuring this keyboard:
1) The first thing we need to do is install this keyboard from the Play Market.
For those who have a QR scanner installed, you can use the code:
2) Go to Android settings... To do this, you need to click on the clock at the bottom right. There will be a drawing of three stripes with bars on them.
3) In the settings we find "Language and input". In the "KEYBOARD AND INPUT METHODS" section, select the required keyboard. In our case, this is Hacker "s Keyboard.
Put a check mark in front of Hacker "s Keyboard, as shown in the first figure. Checkboxes from other additional keyboards must be removed (the Android keyboard does not count - it is preinstalled in the android).
4) Select our default keyboard.
5) If you click on the settings button, as shown in the third figure, you will be taken to the settings of the keyboard itself (fourth figure). There you can change the display methods, themes and select the required input languages.
The following pictures show how to install the languages you need:
Happy settings!
With active correspondence, constant typing on smartphones and tablets, the requirements for the software keyboard increase. In this guide, we will explore the keyboard skins available on Google Play.
The information will also be useful to those who find the standard keyboard inconvenient for many reasons, be it inconvenient key layout or lack of necessary languages, layouts, functions.
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Smart Keyboard is a multilingual keyboard with support for themes and alternative layouts. The adjective "Smart" in the name, apparently, is explained by the fact that this shell can automatically correct typos, guess words and work with a custom dictionary. However, like many other reviewers.
To turn on the keyboard, go to system settings Language & Input, activate Smart Keyboard and select it as the default input method.
Russian is present in the list of supported locales, in the "Language" settings of the application, you can mark the layouts available for switching when typing. For the Russian language, QWERTY-layouts in 3 or 4 rows, T9 and phonetic keyboard are available. Accordingly, where there is QWERTY, the usual layout for the Cyrillic alphabet is assumed (hereinafter in the guide).
For full support of the Russian language in Smart Keyboard, you can go to Google Play and download the corresponding dictionary. The Text Prediction section provides options to help you speed up your text input and reduce the percentage of typos. These include: common error correction, hints, word completion, and punctuation. Separately, it is worth noting the smart autocomplete option - that is, the tips take into account the frequency of the word use.
Custom dictionaries and autotext can be imported / exported in CSV format. The program can copy both dictionaries and user settings to the cloud, synchronize via Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and other web services.
When working with text, Smart Keyboard allows multi-touch (i.e. multitouch) and gestures (swipe left, right, up and down). Various actions can be assigned to them: changing the language, switching to compact mode, text editing, and more. dr.
Through the general settings of Smart Keyboard, you can change the keyboard style. The list contains quite recognizable themes: iPhone, Android, Galaxy, HTC, in various colors, plus you can download other themes on Google Play.
On small screens, you can activate the full-screen keyboard. Also, for accurate typing, it is not difficult to increase the height of the keys in landscape and portrait display. Separate keys (arrows), fields and rows are configured for each layout.
Summary... The Smart Keyboard shell will be interesting as a replacement and addition to the standard keyboard. This is a kind of universal option without "frills", which will suit many users.
MessagEase is significantly different from most of the keyboard skins on Google Play. First of all, the traditional QWERTY layout is missing. But, as you know, the QWERTY layout is not optimal everywhere and not for everyone. For devices with a small screen, it makes sense to test alternatives.
According to the developer, the maximum speed achieved when writing text in MessagEase is 82 words per minute, which is not so little. To study the structure of the MessagEase keyboard and further accelerate typing, you can download the MessagEase Game educational game on Google Play. Also, after installation, it will be useful to familiarize yourself with the tutorial and look into the help section, which describes in detail the functions of the application.
MessagEase's interface is represented by a keyboard with 9 large buttons. They are arranged so that text entry is intuitive: the most common letters of the alphabet are placed in the center of the keys, and to enter them, you just need to touch the center of the buttons. Other letters are entered using gestures (circular motions, swiping to the side, etc.). You can use multitouch, draw shapes in combination with modifier keys. Thus, it is easy to enter not only letters, but also numbers, special characters, and use editing commands.
In MessagEase, you can connect dictionaries to guess words. They are available as add-ons on Google Play, including a Russian-language dictionary. In the settings section "Autoswitches" there is more settings for text: correction of letters to lowercase, punctuation, correction of errors in words, etc.
For quick entry, MessagEase provides macros. True, these are not so much scripts as abbreviations, abbreviations of expressions. They are convenient when entering frequently occurring text fragments, some values (date, time, contact) and some macros inside others.
And finally in additional parameters you can activate the "Turbo speed" mode - a synonym for sloppy input. Using this method, you only need to enter basic characters in the layout, MessagEase corrects typos on its own.
The MessagEase application flexibly configures the appearance of the layout. Through the settings, you can change the color and shape of the keys, fonts, remove unnecessary symbols on the buttons. In addition, the shape and size of the keyboard itself changes. Left- and right-handed keyboards are available for tablet and landscape modes. You can switch between modes on the fly - directly when entering text.
Summary... This exotic solution can take root on Android, although it requires some retraining and getting used to. This approach has both pros and cons. The advantages of MessagEase are undeniable: an optimized and convenient layout, many important points: customization of the interface, full support for languages, gestures. In general, all this ensures fast and correct text entry. However, such addiction can lead to the opposite effect: you will have to relearn the QWERTY layout again.
The application is interesting at least because of what it collected through crowdfunding, despite the fact that it was planned 10 times less. The Minuum Keyboard is described as a "small keyboard for the thumb" - which is obviously attractive.
Minuum Keyboard offers not so much an alternative layout as its other layout - a checkerboard QWERTY keyboard. This allows you to free up the screen and, at the same time, have a full set of letters and numbers at hand. It is most convenient to use such a keyboard in landscape display and on a tablet: all letters are clearly visible, the distance is optimal and there is access to the bottom row of characters. Pressing any button turns on scaling.
In case of sloppy typing, words are automatically corrected. To demonstrate how Minuum Keyboard handles typo fixing, you can run a small tutorial inside the program.
Alternatively, there is a full QWERTY layout and others: alphabetical, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Colemak or Dvorak. In the shell settings, you can enable bonus panels by expanding the keyboard with various options. These include: clipboard management, search, input speed, cursor control, etc.
In addition, you can change the keyboard layout: normal, left or right, floating keyboard. The height of tooltips, space, compact and standard layouts is adjustable.
As for editing text, there are not so many options in Minuum Keyboard: fix capital letters, smart punctuation, word guessing.
By default, in the list of languages for which dictionaries can be downloaded, there are only German, French and Italian. To add the Russian language, you must enable Internet access and wait for the corresponding line to appear in the Language & layout section.
Despite its strikingly minimalist look, Minuum Keyboard offers many themes. They are divided into flat, soft, diamond-shaped, natural and others. Particularly curious are chameleon themes that change the background color of the shell depending on the current application.
Summary... Minuum Keyboard will appeal to tablet owners and those users who value typing speed and the ability to auto-correct typos. At the same time, the smartphone version is quite suitable for comfortable work with text, since in Minuum you can change the layout and adapt the keyboard to the size of a small screen.
Hacker's Keyboard
Hacker’s Keyboard is a program for those who need to make a kind of "mobile hack" to return a standard PC keyboard to the device. Almost all of the keys on this keyboard are present (for example, the function keys F1-F12) and are in place.
For the Russian language in Hacker’s Keyboard, regular and phonetic layouts, 4 and 5 rows of keys are available. A Russian-language dictionary is available separately on Google Play. When typing, you can include hints, word suggestions, auto-completion, punctuation.
There are enough interface settings in the keyboard: you can change the height of the keyboard, the number of rows, the size of the text, themes. You can customize gestures and reassign individual keys.
There are separate settings for the ConnectBot SSH client in the application - the PC keyboard, among other things, allows you to work in the terminal without restrictions.
MultiLing Keyboard is a lightweight multilingual keyboard for Android. There is a Russian layout, in addition, it is presented here a large number of alphabetic layouts: T9, compact, phonetic Cyrillic, left- and right-handed, Qwerty / Azerty / Qwertz, Dvorak, Neo and others.
For auto-completion, you need to download an additional dictionary on the developer's website. The setup process is not as convenient as in other programs: you need to spend a few minutes trying to find the required dictionary, making your way through the advertising modules. Nevertheless, in fact, everything works, the support for the Russian language is well implemented. Autocorrection is available, abbreviations can be used, hints work. The application custom dictionary is imported and exported.
You can use gestures and hard keys for quick input. For certain buttons (space, period, Shift, etc.), the action is configured when they are pressed for a long time.
As for the visual settings, you can change the theme, change the height of the keys and the distance between them, the size of the fonts. Thus, the MultiLing Keyboard adapts well to any fingers. It should be noted here that setting up the display is not that convenient: there is no way to quickly look at the keyboard and test the text input.
Besides setting appearance, you can activate split mode: split keyboards for landscape or portrait display. Split is especially convenient on tablets.
First of all, Go Keyboard is a keyboard that focuses on visual diversity - icons and themes. By the way, there are more than 1000 themes available in the market for every taste and color. True, by default, the choice in the program is small, and it is not so easy to find a suitable one among hundreds of topics. In addition to themes, in the settings, you can easily change some parameters of the keyboard display: height, font sizes, and so on. A separate section of parameters is reserved for sounds - here are collected nothing other than funny voice acting options. There are also extensions (plugins) in GO Keyboard, formally there are only three of them and they do not offer anything significant.
The program is intuitive: at the beginning of use, the user is shown "by the hand" how to switch the text input, after which in the settings you can turn on the Russian language and download the dictionary for auto-completion. The Russian layout is presented in two versions - YASHERT (phonetic layout) and in 4 rows. In general, the support of the Russian language is implemented well, but the impression is spoiled by the quality of the Russian localization: there are mistakes that are misleading.
On the functional side, Go Keyboard, perhaps, cannot offer flexible settings. However, the following features are noteworthy: predictive input, lexicon, autocomplete, hints. If necessary, you can export or import the lexicon to the SD card, but there is no online synchronization of settings and dictionary.
Fleksy developers claim their development is the fastest mobile keyboard in the world.
After installing Fleksy, it is suggested not only to turn on the keyboard and download the dictionary, but also to watch an interactive lesson on using gestures - even the lazy will show interest. The application does not burden the user with many combinations and gestures for memorization - instead, a basic set for mastering is provided. After that, it becomes clear that Fleksy has enough gestures to simplify typing and editing text. For example: swipe down - correct a word, up - undo the correction, swipe left - delete a word, double space - smart punctuation.
Although Fleksy's interface is not localized, Russian input is supported. In the settings, you can enable auto-correction of errors, display of options, correction of capital letters, study of words (saving to the dictionary) and import of contacts. There are not so many other settings in Fleksy, which again indicates minimalism.
The keyboard design is flat and minimal, with 30 color themes available to choose from. In addition, the transparency is adjusted, the size of the keyboard buttons (3 sizes), the space bar is removed, which makes the layout even more compact.
Fleksy supports extensions, and some interesting ones should be noted among them: the addition of a number row, the ability to quickly hide the keyboard, shortcuts, hotkeys, etc. free version a maximum of three expansion slots can be used.
