Add German layout neo 2

[dflvunoooooo]

Hi, is it possible to add a layout for the german keyboard?

More information can be found here neo-layout.org.

[Morphior]

I have made an initial draft for neo2 with all six layers. There are a few issues:

• how to handle dead keys
• how to handle the compose key
• how to specify capital ß (ẞ) as currently afaik the app makes its own guess as to what the capitalized representation of a letter is when it’s not in a popup
• how to handle things like backspace on layer 4 of v or the arrow keys etc.

I know apps like Unexpected Keyboard have managed to include dead keys and arrow keys and such in their implementations but I haven’t looked too closely into how that would work.

I was also debating whether or not to include the hyphen key next to the 0 on the num row. I’ve decided to include it for now but we definitely need to think about how to convey which hyphen is which. I wasn’t able to include the soft hyphen so we need to figure out how to do that as well.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Keyboard xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <Row app:isNumbersRow="true">
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyLabel="1"
            app:popupCharacters="°¹₁ª¬"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="1" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="2"
            app:popupCharacters="§²₂º∨"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="2" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="3"
            app:popupCharacters="ℓ³₃№∧"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="3" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="4"
            app:popupCharacters="»›♀⊥"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="4" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="5"
            app:popupCharacters="«‹♂·∡"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="5" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="6"
            app:popupCharacters="$¢⚥£∥"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="6" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="7"
            app:popupCharacters="€¥ϰ¤→"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="7" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="8"
            app:popupCharacters="„‚⟨∞"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="8" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="9"
            app:popupCharacters="“‘⟩/∝"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="9" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="0"
            app:popupCharacters="”’₀*∅"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="0" />
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="right"
            app:keyLabel="-"
            app:popupCharacters="—‑-"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
    </Row>
    <Row>
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyLabel="x"
            app:popupCharacters='…ξΞ'
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="1" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="v"
            app:popupCharacters="_√"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="2" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="l"
            app:popupCharacters="[λΛ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="3" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="c"
            app:popupCharacters="]χℂ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="4" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="w"
            app:popupCharacters="^ωΩ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="5" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="k"
            app:popupCharacters="!κ¡×"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="6" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="h"
            app:popupCharacters="&lt;ηΨ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="7" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="g"
            app:popupCharacters=">γΓ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="8" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="f"
            app:popupCharacters="=φΦ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="9" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="q"
            app:popupCharacters="&amp;ϕ+ℚ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:topSmallNumber="0" />
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="right"
            app:keyLabel="ß"
            app:popupCharacters="ſς−∘"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
    </Row>
    <Row>
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyLabel="u"
            app:popupCharacters="\⊂"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="i"
            app:popupCharacters="/ι∫"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="a"
            app:popupCharacters="{α∀"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="e"
            app:popupCharacters="}ε∃"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="o"
            app:popupCharacters="*ο∈"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="s"
            app:popupCharacters="?σ¿Σ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="n"
            app:popupCharacters="(νℕ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="r"
            app:popupCharacters=")ρℝ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="t"
            app:popupCharacters="-τ∂"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="d"
            app:popupCharacters=":δ,Δ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyEdgeFlags="right"
            app:keyLabel="y"
            app:popupCharacters="@υ.∇"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
    </Row>
    <Row>
        <Key
            app:code="-1"
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyIcon="@drawable/ic_caps_outline_vector"
            app:keyWidth="15%p" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="ü"
            app:popupCharacters="#∪"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="ö"
            app:popupCharacters="$ϵ∩"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="ä"
            app:popupCharacters="|ηℵ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="p"
            app:popupCharacters="~πΠ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="z"
            app:popupCharacters="`ζℤ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="b"
            app:popupCharacters="+β:⇐"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="m"
            app:popupCharacters="%μ⇔"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="j"
            app:popupCharacters=";θΘ"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:code="-5"
            app:isRepeatable="true"
            app:keyEdgeFlags="right"
            app:keyIcon="@drawable/ic_clear_vector"
            app:keyWidth="15%p" />
    </Row>
    <Row>
        <Key
            app:code="-2"
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyLabel="123"
            app:keyWidth="15%p" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel=","
            app:popupCharacters='–"ϱ⇒'
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template"
            app:keyWidth="10%p" />
        <Key
            app:code="-6"
            app:keyEdgeFlags="left"
            app:keyIcon="@drawable/ic_emoji_emotions_outline_vector"
            app:secondaryKeyIcon="@drawable/ic_language_outlined"
            app:keyWidth="10%p" />
        <Key
            app:code="32"
            app:isRepeatable="true"
            app:keyWidth="40%p" />
        <Key
            app:keyLabel="."
            app:keyWidth="10%p"
            app:popupCharacters="•'ϑ↦"
            app:popupKeyboard="@xml/keyboard_popup_template" />
        <Key
            app:code="-4"
            app:keyEdgeFlags="right"
            app:keyIcon="@drawable/ic_enter_vector"
            app:keyWidth="15%p" />
    </Row>
</Keyboard>

[dflvunoooooo]

Thank you very much for your work! How can I test it?

[Morphior]

I guess you’d have to put the contents I pasted above into a file in app/src/main/res/xml and name it keys_letters_german_neo2.xml or something and then compile the app from source. But I’m not sure, there might be other things that need to be done. Maybe @tibbi can chime in?

[tibbi]

will test it later, thanks

[Morphior]

@tibbi any updates so far?