Create own virtual keyboard

Did you search this forum before posting your question?

See https://together.jolla.com/question/21510/howto-adapt-sailfish-virtual-keyboard-vkb-layout/. This not only shows you how to adapt your keyboard but also points you to other sources and tells you where to find the code for the keyboard.

When searching, you also would have realised, that you created 3 new tags while you did not use the default tag for this subject -- meaning, your question is not found when searching by tag.

Of course I searched the forum and I even stumbled over the link you provided. But because (almost) every subheading includes "layout" I didn't realize it would be relevant to my question (concept != layout, e.g. swype-like != esperanto layout). But you are right, at the end of the post there are some pointers to source code which are worth a look.

Thanks for the default tag hint. In future posts I will choose them more carefully (I just used the autocompletion).

@eric: Please check the "keyboard" tags. As I see, only "vkb" is used at the moment. The keyboard combinations hence could be deleted.

@yurumi:

• Yes, autocompletion should usually be ok (so it is not your fault to have applied the wrong tags). Unfortunately, it is not always reliable: Disused tags are not deleted automatically.

• The keyboard project is called "maliit", so all keyboard code should be located in and below /usr/share/maliit (some deeper folder of this tree section is referenced in the link above and when looking into the code samples provided there you see that all files of a certain subdirectory are included in the country specific vkb layout descriptions).

@jgr: done.