Web/Tech – Keyman Blog

Using Keyman Desktop

A simple tool to create key images

This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such as Ctrl+Alt+C Backspace. You can use any Unicode character on Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 11 years ago

Developing Keyboards

Announcing the Launch of KeymanWeb 2.0 – Open Source

We are pleased to announce the launch of KeymanWeb 2.0 as an open source software product, under the Apache License, Version 2.0. What is KeymanWeb? What is KeymanWeb? It’s an open source input method framework for the web, supporting desktop and touch keyboard layouts, which works in all modern browsers. Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 11 years ago

Developing Keyboards

Creating a Touch Keyboard Layout for Amharic with Keyman Developer 9

A widely used Keyman Desktop phonetic keyboard for Amharic (developed by Geez Frontier Foundation) was also compiled and made available for use with KeymanWeb. When used with web browsers on desktop computers, the behaviour of the keyboard was identical to use with Keyman Desktop, but use of the same Amharic Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago

Android

Keyman For Android Devices Is Now Available!

After the successful launch of Keyman for iPhone and iPad, we set our attention on developing the Android equivalent. It's now available on the Google Play Store as Keyman! We've optimized the keyboard layout and design for phone, 7-inch tablets and 10-inch tablets, ensuring an easy to use and seamless Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago

Amharic

Keyman 1.1 eliminates Square Boxes from your iPhone and iPad!

With the recent launch of keymanweb.com and Keyman for iPhone and iPad, more and more of our customers are now using Keyman to type on mobile devices. Some History While the diversification away from the desktop now means you can type on just about any device, it also leads to Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago

Developing Keyboards

Keyman is now available as a native app for iPhone and iPad!

Over the last few months, our team has been working hard on developing a native version of Keyman for iOS, which is now available on the Apple App Store as Keyman! The Keyman app now brings you the power and ease of use of Keyman Desktop to your iPhone, iPad Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago

Amharic

Amharic keyboard for Nokia phones, Opera Mini and Facebook

Update 4 July 2014: KeymanWeb Amharic Mini 2.0 is now online and is much faster to use! Read more… KeymanWeb Amharic Mini is a new website that makes it possible for you to type in Amharic on your Nokia mobile phone, and post your message in Amharic to Facebook. Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago

Developing Keyboards

KeymanWeb 2.0 Beta Progress

Since the release of the KeymanWeb 2.0 beta, we haven't been sitting around. We have in fact released 7 updates to the beta in the last month! Today, we consolidated a lot of that effort into build 335, and I'm happy to be able to report on some of the Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago

Developing Keyman

KeymanWeb 2.0: The Development Story

When we started planning version 2.0 of KeymanWeb, we had a couple of major objectives. First, we wanted to clean up a big chunk of code that had grown beyond its original design and was getting very difficult to maintain and extend. And second, we knew that touch devices – Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago

KeymanWeb

KeymanWeb 2.0 now open for beta!

For the last few months, my colleagues and I have been working on KeymanWeb 2.0. This new release of KeymanWeb is a rebuild from the ground up of KeymanWeb 1.0, building to the latest web standards and adding support for tablets and mobile devices! Together with KeymanWeb itself, we've built Read more…

By jkirkham, 12 years ago