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I feel a bit sad too. I looked at it last week, it was a really nicely designed syllabic alphabet and well suited to the phonology of the language. I planned to

I feel a bit sad too. I looked at it last week, it was a really nicely designed syllabic alphabet and well suited to the phonology of the language. I planned to learn it this week for the fun. I don’t think developing a keyboard for it is too difficult. Actually I could try to do it myself. The problem is probably more about making users install it when it’s not preinstalled on the device and thus requires downloading an application. Heck, even languages such as Chinese or Japanese requires a (first party) download on Android. I found iOS handles better multilingual input and is less confusing to get started with new keyboards.

knolax 7y ago
> I don’t think developing a keyboard for it is too difficult. I've made IBus input methods for conlangs before and it's literally as simple as making a plaintext table of physical keys and corresponding characters. I can't imagine it'd be any more difficult on IOS or Android. Despite this I can't find any Inuktitut keyboards on the Play Store.
- tasogare 7y ago
  Well it’s depends. On desktop OS plain text file method has limitations, for example on macOS it may not work if the name is too long and it ignores leading 0 for conversion which is super annoying. Then there are third party middleware like Open Vanilla which are more customizable and finally there is the solution of using native frameworks which is hellish. On mobile OS, at least on iOS, developing a keyboard means also creating the layout keyboard and managing its state, so it’s a bit more work than a single mapping text file. > I can’t find any Inuktitut keyboards on the play Store I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do.
  - yorwba 7y ago
    > I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do. You might want to base it on https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/ https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/
robocat 7y ago
> The problem is probably more about making users install it when it’s not preinstalled Is there a keyboard HID for USB/Bluetooth that allows for Unicode characters to be sent rather than key codes? Android has a pretty good keyboard API (e.g. Chrome on Android can't get passed keycodes because of how IME are designed). However I'm guessing Windows apps need key codes, so maybe not possible.

knolax 7y ago

> I don’t think developing a keyboard for it is too difficult. I've made IBus input methods for conlangs before and it's literally as simple as making a plaintext table of physical keys and corresponding characters. I can't imagine it'd be any more difficult on IOS or Android. Despite this I can't find any Inuktitut keyboards on the Play Store.

tasogare 7y ago
Well it’s depends. On desktop OS plain text file method has limitations, for example on macOS it may not work if the name is too long and it ignores leading 0 for conversion which is super annoying. Then there are third party middleware like Open Vanilla which are more customizable and finally there is the solution of using native frameworks which is hellish. On mobile OS, at least on iOS, developing a keyboard means also creating the layout keyboard and managing its state, so it’s a bit more work than a single mapping text file. > I can’t find any Inuktitut keyboards on the play Store I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do.
- yorwba 7y ago
  > I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do. You might want to base it on https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/ https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/

robocat 7y ago

> The problem is probably more about making users install it when it’s not preinstalled Is there a keyboard HID for USB/Bluetooth that allows for Unicode characters to be sent rather than key codes? Android has a pretty good keyboard API (e.g. Chrome on Android can't get passed keycodes because of how IME are designed). However I'm guessing Windows apps need key codes, so maybe not possible.