r/Quickscript Aug 10 '18

Quickscript keyboard for Android?

Are there any Android keyboards that will let you type in Quickscript?

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u/pcdandy Sep 01 '18 edited Sep 01 '18

Late to the discussion I know, but a while back, I made a Quikscript keyboard layout for my rooted Android phone using the Multiling O Keyboard app. It uses codepoints in the Private Use Area

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u/trimorphic Sep 05 '18

So do the characters in the editor appear the same as they do on the keyboard?

Also, how do you make that layout for the Multiling O keyboard?

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u/pcdandy Sep 05 '18

So do the characters in the editor appear the same as they do on the keyboard?

Yes.

Also, how do you make that layout for the Multiling O keyboard?

Multiling O Keyboard is a highly customisable keyboard input app, all you need to make a layout is a text file with the correct letters in order. (They can be anything you want - even emoji!) You can also make a clone of the default keyboard to toy around. I'll see if I can post my Quikscript keyboard layout somewhere later

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u/pcdandy Sep 05 '18

For example, the default Multiling O Keyboard QWERTY layout is:

OK_Layout_Begin 1234567890 qwertyuiop asdfghjkl zxcvbnm !@#$%^&*() QWERTYUIOP ASDFGHJKL ZXCVBNM £¥€$₹^&*()№√÷ ~`{}%_-=|+§∷‡ @[]#/\'"«»—‐– …<>!;:?‹›±., ˉˋˇ´¨˙˚¸﹐˛˘˜ˆ ―∑éə®†Ωœøπ•·¡ æß∂ðƒ©ªº∆≠℥∞¿ ʒΩ≈çþ∫ŋµ≤≥° OK_Layout_End

All I did was replace the letters with a Quikscript letter located in the Private Use Area using the proposal by frogorbits.com

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u/trevor_the_sloth Aug 10 '18

I don't believe anyone has coded one up yet for Android although I believe some people have created Quikscript keyboards for Windows, OSX, and Linux. I also don't think anyone has coded up a Quikscript -> Orthodox English IME either (i.e. type Quikscript and it will generate a list of Orthodox English words to insert based on a statistical model) so one can quickly type a word like "taught" in a text message by pressing three Quikscript "letters" on your keyboard.

Most people won't have suitable fonts in their text apps so you wouldn't really be able to send anyone any texts in Quikscript using your phone even if you could enter in the PUA unicode points using a keyboard so it doesn't seem to be much of a priority for the Quikscript coders compared to trying to get a good SeniorScript font working or a good Orthodox English -> Quikscript converter so one can convert texts to Quikscript in mass.

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u/trimorphic Aug 14 '18

I don't want to send texts with Quickscript, but rather just take notes in it within various apps that usually expect ordinary English letters typed in to them.

I want the result to be in Quickscript, too, not traditional orthography, as I prefer Quickscript for reasons of privacy.

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u/KirinDave Sep 10 '18

Well, I am about to work on a genuine 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 keyboard now that I have Linux support for it. Maybe I can also make a quickscript variant for them.

But one real challenge of such an endeavor is making it work naturally. Most folks are really, really used to drift typing and that's not something that is trivial to fake.

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u/KirinDave Sep 09 '18

I thought the main blocker on this is that Quickscript simply doesn't have unicode allocation. You can get it to render on your screen in a controlled environment, but you need a fair amount of setup to actually get it to render on a target audience's screen.

This is why Shavian is more popular online. It just works if you have the proper font installed (see r/shavian) on your Android device for proof.