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USB keyboards layout

I have managed to connect a USB keyboard to my danish Advantage. What I cannot figure out is, how to change the keyboard layout. It seems that the phone has one setting for the software keyboard and one for the built-in keyboard, but there must be a separate setting for the USB keyboard.
My danish settings are not revealed in the registry, the settings says US layout (0409) but the built-in one is danish. Has anybody figured out the relation between these three keyboards?
// Johan

keyboard layouts

is it possible to have more than 1 keyboard layout installed and switch between them? or maybe have the software keyboard have a different layout than the hardware keyboard?

anyone any idea?

I have never managed to use the hardware keyboard to write Greek characters but there are many options for software keyboards. I use Language Extender.

some guy told me to use PocketCM Keyboard, which i did download and install, but i just prefer stuff thats not an addon as it slows things down etc.

[Q] Fast way to change or switch your Keyboard Language?

I've been hunting this issue on XDA but I've not found a solution, it's the eternal issue of keyboard switcher. I speak several languages, like a lot of people here. It is a royal pain to manually switch from english to french to spanish and back and forth. everytime i want to write in one language i have to change the entire locale.
So far, I found this:
-apowersms (if you go to setting, there is a language filter, which is very interesting because you can choose which language keyboard you need) (and the keyboard layout isn't so bad looking)
- softkeyboard (for the keyboard button, when you press it long, you can directly change to the language you want)
I'm trying to find, how to create a custom shortcut maybe to switch between the languages that I speak. something like this, so that I can switch languages for my gingerbread keyboard.
Does anyone out there have a better solution for my problem. let me know.
thanks

Using stock keyboard, go to the keyboard settings and search for something like "languages". Select the languages you want to use. Now swipe your finger on the space key to switch between the selected languages
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Download AnySoftKeyboard (free), or SmartKeyboardPro (paid).

[Q] Switch between keyboard layouts

Hi,
is it possible to switch between custom keyboard layouts on the Droid 3? E.g. I would like to add a cyrillic keybaord layout and be able to switch between the default and the cyrillic layout quickly as I type.
thanks,
.

nickexel said:
Hi,
is it possible to switch between custom keyboard layouts on the Droid 3? E.g. I would like to add a cyrillic keybaord layout and be able to switch between the default and the cyrillic layout quickly as I type.
thanks,
.
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If you long press in the text box you are typing in, you should get a popup menu. If you select "Input method" you can select any keyboard that you have installed.

Thanks, but I meant for the hardware keyboard.

No English (UK) layout for Physical Keyboard (Bluetooth)

Hi,
I've just connected a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo to my Nexus 7, it works great apart from the lack of a keyboard layout for English (UK). the only English layouts are US and US Dvorak style. Does anyone know of a way to get the keyboard to use a UK layout? The built-in Android keyboard has one and works fine.
Paul.

I'm going to second this question. The US layout is usable but when you have to use the " key to get an @ it starts to get annoying.

Workaround that works!
I had the same problem, having just bought a UK layout bluetooth keyboard from Amazon.
There is a workaround - "External Keyboard Helper Pro" in Google Play. It costs a couple of quid.
You can try out "External Keyboard Helper Demo" first, to show that it works - this is free to try out.
A word of warning - it took me a while to get this to work - it was quite fiddly, but it DOES eventually work!
A hint:
In Language & Input, these are the settings that work for me:
Default: External Keyboard Helper Pro
SELECTED: Android Keyboard: English (UK)
SELECTED: External Keyboard Helper Pro
Under choose input method, select:
Hardware Physical Keyboard OFF
English (UK) Android keyboard - NOT SELECTED
External Keyboard Helper Pro - SELECTED
By SELECTED I mean ticked in the above.
I found that choosing the English (Dvorak) layout in External Keyboard Helper Pro and having "Sound on keypress" on helped my work out when the app was intercepting the bluetooth keyboard input and remapping correctly. Once that you know it is working, switch off the sound and select "English (GB)" as the layout in External Keyboard Helper Pro.

I tried this solution and it works (though I have no idea why).
The problem is that you seem to have to go through the suggested routine every time you connect the keyboard.
Has anyone found a way of setting it up so that it automatically sets it self up with the English layout when you connect the keyboard and then reverts to the on-screen keyboard when you disconnect?