I'm the maintainer for the Cameroon Keyboard (already in MSKLC and XKB, formerly in Keyman), and I am testing Keyman for Android/iOS.
I have:
- Developed a keyboard with a touch Layout (Keyman Developer 9)
- Defined all characters
- Uploaded the font to Github
- defined this font for font and OSKfont.
- Tested the keyboard on Android/iOS devices.
The relevant part of my code is here:
"options" : {
"device" : "any",
"keyboardBaseUri" : "https://github.com/erros84/Cameroon-Keyboard/raw/master/",
"fontBaseUri" : "https://github.com/erros84/Cameroon-Keyboard/raw/master/Fonts/"
},
"keyboard" : {
"id" : "camq_mob_progress",
"name" : "Cameroon QWERTY",
"filename" : "camq_mob_progress-1.0.js",
"version" : "1.0",
"lastModified" : "2017-08-03T21:21:31.154+01:00",
"font" : {
"family" : "Andika Afr",
"size" : "20pt",
"source" : "ANDIKAAFR-R.TTF"
},
"oskFont" : {
"family" : "Andika Afr",
"size" : "20pt",
"source" : "ANDIKAAFR-R.TTF"
},
On Android, the keyboard buttons show up in Andika Africa as expected, but even inside the Keyman app, the text areas (both keymanWeb and Android) use incomplete monospaced fonts that don't display properly. I thought that the Keyman app could use my custom font, at least in some places.
We use decomposed diacritics, and a few IPA special characters that have been in Unicode since v5. Some diacritics such as this one ◌᷆ don't stay on their letters. Here is a sample of our most complex characters/combinations: ɛ́ɔ̀ə̌ʉ̂ɨ᷅ɄƁŒƐ̩ .
https://github.com/erros84/Cameroon-Keyboard/blob/master/Screenshot.png
Was I mistaken that I could add a font (at least for the KM notepad interface), and maybe beyond. I am aware that mobile fonts are neutered so that they can minimize RAM. I chose Andika Afr for aesthetics, regional completeness, and size.
If I can't add a specific font for this, does KM Android install any relatively complete (and non-monospaced) fonts that I can latch onto? I'd be happy with any Andika, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Arial, Noto, Cambria, Gentium, DejaVu, code2000, Arial, Lucida.
Updates in response to Marc:
Ok, so I read through the compile errors, and so I solved a couple of key problems. There is an interesting one: Warning: line 0 warning 209F: The touch layout font should be the same as the On Screen Keyboard font and be the same for all platforms.
The .js file has reference to both Andika and Andika Afr. After a search, the only other file containing a reference to "Andika" (not Andika Afr) is the KVK file (which is not directly editable). Weirdly, removing the KVK from the project and retesting the Android Keyboard set everything back to Courier.
It seems that the compilation of the Touch Keyboard on Android is strangely tied to the Font setting on the KVK, and I can't figure out how to reconfigure the font in the KVK (no code view).
