BlackBerry keyboard as default?

asked 2016-02-03 15:54:42 +0300

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Hi there,

BlackBerry now offers his famous virtual keyboard as Android apk. Is it possible to set these keyboard as default in SailfishOS? If yes, how it works?

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answered 2016-02-03 16:04:02 +0300

martonmiklos

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http://balubati.atw.hu/bl...

The virtual keyboard layouts are written in QML for Sailfish, so almost everything is possible. I am not familiar with that keyboard (I have a BB Playbook but that keyboard was not special I think), but if you have some video about how it works post it here.

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I use the BB OS 10 often for my freelance work. I love the keyboard of the BB, with Jolla's own I'm not so happy (but also with Android and iOS). As I know the Playbook has never seen BB OS 10? But I'm not sure about it. Fleksy is also a option as Android apk. It's near to the BB virtual keyboard.

pema ( 2016-02-03 16:16:51 +0300 )edit

Are you refering to this kind of auto completition? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6iNAeXson8

martonmiklos ( 2016-02-03 17:27:47 +0300 )edit

I agree with pema. I have also Z10 and the keyboard is much better (never used this auto-complete staff) than the one in SFOS.

sepuka ( 2016-02-03 17:45:18 +0300 )edit

Okay, but what feature do you miss from the SFOS keyboard? The adaptive movement of the key areas?

martonmiklos ( 2016-02-03 17:58:23 +0300 )edit

It's the way of swiping the words, the multi language support without to change the keyboard layout, the AI based learning of words which I write and often use. You are simply faster and more correct in typing your words then with another virtual keyboard.

pema ( 2016-02-03 18:03:33 +0300 )edit

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answered 2016-02-03 17:19:36 +0300

molan

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Certainly not by just installing an APK - this would need some multi-windowed Android emulation and I don't think we'll ever see something like this (lot's of work to implement, low user demand, security/privacy risk). It also wouldn't make much sense to run Alien Dalvik just for a virtual keyboard (in my opinion)...

There are some custom keyboard available at OpenRepos.net (like OKBoard, Dolphin Keyboard) and many various layouts. To re-create something similar to the great but closed-source BB-keyboard wouldn't be an easy task though.

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As I understand correctly I can use the BlackBerry virtual keyboard only for Android apps (without a bigger change in the system)? If I will use it on SFOS completely I have to use a virtual keyboard from OpenRepros for example?

pema ( 2016-02-03 17:58:20 +0300 )edit

Not exactly. The Android keyboard is deactivated in Alien Dalvik (Android support). So you use the Sailfish keyboard in Android apps, incl. copy/paste features which works very well. See this screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ns6p506g7o3zikp/Screenshot-16-02-03-22-07-28.png?dl=0

I don't know if it is possible to use Android keyboards in Android apps and haven't heard of anyone trying. Maybe it's possible to change something in /opt/alien/system/build.prob - but I really don't know :-/

molan ( 2016-02-03 23:09:42 +0300 )edit

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