Here are some more things I wanted to say about OS 3.0
1. Apple has provided support for Greek Keyboard in 3.0. It looks pretty much the same as what I had but the good thing is that its in-built. So I would be discontinuing any upgrades or support for the Greek Keyboard. It would still be there in bigboss repository though till he decides to remove it.
2. Now comes the important part on how Apple has chosen to ignore so many Indian users. Just look at the following
(a) 3.0 has got all asian keyboards starting from Chinese, Japanese and all the way to Malay, Thai, etc. but not a single Indic language. Not even Hindi (6% of world population speaks the language).
(b) Even the simplest of Nokia sets available in India has got a Hindi/Regional language texting feature...
(c) No improved support for Indic fonts rendering either... C'mon apple, how much effort does this take ?? And you have plenty of Indian programmers in your teams... still??
(d) What more, Apple is fighting to make jailbreaking illegal too...
I guess that leaves me with just one choice... get a G phone the next time ... ;-)
or you can go to following link and tell Apple to put one for the next OS release
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Say 'Hindi Keyboard' in subject and 'Enhancement Request' in feedback type....
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Keyboards and OS 3.0
Hey All
iphone OS 3.0 is out and many of you may have upgraded already. You may also have noted that none of my keyboards (hindi, easyhindi, punjabi and greek) work on 3.0. That's because 'ikeyex', the keyboard framework extender by KennyTM isnt compatible with 3.0 yet. He is working on it and it might take some time. Once the 3.0 version is out I will update the keyboards as soon as possible. You can come back here for updates or subscribe directly to his feed at
http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/issues/detail?id=83
The keyboards still work fine with OS 2.2.
Thanks for all the nice and encouraging e-mails :-)
iphone OS 3.0 is out and many of you may have upgraded already. You may also have noted that none of my keyboards (hindi, easyhindi, punjabi and greek) work on 3.0. That's because 'ikeyex', the keyboard framework extender by KennyTM isnt compatible with 3.0 yet. He is working on it and it might take some time. Once the 3.0 version is out I will update the keyboards as soon as possible. You can come back here for updates or subscribe directly to his feed at
http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/issues/detail?id=83
The keyboards still work fine with OS 2.2.
Thanks for all the nice and encouraging e-mails :-)
Saturday, April 18, 2009
EasyHindi keyboard for iPhone
Now all main characters supported in one page itself (see screenshots). The active letters are shown as 'black' whereas inactive are shown in 'blue'. Pressing the 'shift' key turns inactive letters to active. So you don't have to search for letters back and forth anymore.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Punjabi Keyboard for iphone
Punjabi keyboard add-on for the iKeyEx keyboard extender.
Now available in Cydia in BigBoss repository.
An intuitive and easy to use Punjabi Keyboard.
1. The characters are placed in alternate fashion in two layouts which can be toggled using shift key
2. Special characters and numbers can be accessed using 123 key.
3. For typing half-letters, type the letter you want followed by the 'halant' (on the back of 'a'). They may not display as half-letter on iphone but will display properly when read on a computer (i.e. in e-mails).
4. For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear. Some special and rarely used characters are also supported this way.
Now available in Cydia in BigBoss repository.
An intuitive and easy to use Punjabi Keyboard.
1. The characters are placed in alternate fashion in two layouts which can be toggled using shift key
2. Special characters and numbers can be accessed using 123 key.
3. For typing half-letters, type the letter you want followed by the 'halant' (on the back of 'a'). They may not display as half-letter on iphone but will display properly when read on a computer (i.e. in e-mails).
4. For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear. Some special and rarely used characters are also supported this way.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Hindi Keyboard 0.0-2
Updated Hindi Keyboard - minor bug fixes
1. Allows you to search user names in Hindi for both SMS and e-mail apps.
2. Works well with Hindi --> English translation in almost all translator apps using Google service.
Thanks for your response and bug reports.
Thinking of making keyboards for other Indic Languages
1. Allows you to search user names in Hindi for both SMS and e-mail apps.
2. Works well with Hindi --> English translation in almost all translator apps using Google service.
Thanks for your response and bug reports.
Thinking of making keyboards for other Indic Languages
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Greek Keyboard for iphone
Available in Cydia Now
Greek keyboard add-on for the iKeyEx keyboard extender.
The keyboard uses standard modern Greek keyboard layout and is thus pretty straightforward to use.
For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear.
Special thanks to kennytm for packaging help
Greek keyboard add-on for the iKeyEx keyboard extender.
The keyboard uses standard modern Greek keyboard layout and is thus pretty straightforward to use.
For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear.
Special thanks to kennytm for packaging help
Hindi Keyboard for iphone
Available in Cydia Now
Hindi keyboard add-on for the iKeyEx keyboard extender.
An intuitive and easy to use Hindi Keyboard.
1. The characters are placed in alternate fashion in two layouts which can be toggled using shift key, e.g., pressing shift will convert 'ka' to 'kha'; 'ga' to 'gha' and so on.
2. Special characters and numbers can be accessed using 123 key.
3. For typing half-letters, type the letter you want followed by the 'halant' (on the back of 'a'). They may not display as half-letter on iphone but will display properly when read on a computer (i.e. in e-mails).
4. For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear. Some special and rarely used characters are also supported this way.
5. See screenshots for any doubts.
6. To enable go to Settings--> General--> International--> Keyboards and turn on the hindi keyboard (supported on 2.2 only)
Hindi keyboard add-on for the iKeyEx keyboard extender.
An intuitive and easy to use Hindi Keyboard.
1. The characters are placed in alternate fashion in two layouts which can be toggled using shift key, e.g., pressing shift will convert 'ka' to 'kha'; 'ga' to 'gha' and so on.
2. Special characters and numbers can be accessed using 123 key.
3. For typing half-letters, type the letter you want followed by the 'halant' (on the back of 'a'). They may not display as half-letter on iphone but will display properly when read on a computer (i.e. in e-mails).
4. For characters with accent, tap and hold the respective key till the options appear. Some special and rarely used characters are also supported this way.
5. See screenshots for any doubts.
6. To enable go to Settings--> General--> International--> Keyboards and turn on the hindi keyboard (supported on 2.2 only)
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