Grid Custom Keyboard

Keyboard with user-selected characters and Unicode character set browsing

Grid Custom Keyboard lets the user choose which characters appear on the keyboard, and where.

The Unicode character set can also be browsed in a grid panel. So a user could start typing characters from anywhere in the Unicode set.

The keyboard has no swiping gesture and does not use the technique of a long press to select alternative characters.

Grid Custom Keyboard is a free app, without ads, and no in-app purchases.

No permission asked. Android 6+

NOTICE

Keyboard apps need to be activated in Android Settings. An approval will be asked on screen by Android.

Maintenance or new features could be infrequent.

MAIN FEATURES

- The 26 characters of the QWERTY area can be replaced (lowercase and UPPERCASE). QWERTY is the standard layout shown by default

- 3 panels can be filled with user-specified characters (up to 37 in each)

- Grid Custom Keyboard returns to the main display after selection of a character on a panel; but it can stay on the panel with the "pin down" key

- A panel allows browsing the Unicode character set, and select a character from it. The list of Unicode range names (language names, symbol groups, etc) can be browsed and tapped for selection

- 3 landscape layouts are available for tablets (different number of grid columns)

- On phones, there is a key to switch to a compact mode, taking less space on screen, containing only the essential keys for typing

- On tablets, there is a special round layout that optimizes the finger movements

- Control keys: Backspace, Delete, arrows, Shift/Caps-Lock, Enter, Ctrl-Z (undo)

- Grid Custom Keyboard has an auto-repeat key: a state key (like Shift) that will make the next touched key to repeat, until it is released

- Optional display of character on touch, in a rectangle above the key

- Word suggestion (completion) for 3 languages: English, French, Spanish, based on embedded lists of 23000 words each

- Grid Custom Keyboard has a "private cache" : a panel which is a private clipboard of 15 cells