External Keyboard Helper Pro v6.1 APK

Monday, May 6, 2013

External Keyboard Helper Pro v6.1 APK

Take full control over your external Bluetooth or USB keyboard.

External Keyboard Helper Pro play.google.com.hwkeyboardhelper
A non visible soft keyboard (Input Method) intended to be used with hardware Bluetooth and USB keyboards. It automatically brings up the Input Method dialog when Bluetooth keyboard connects or disconnects (on some devices this can also be made to work with USB keyboards).
It supports a lot of different keylayouts for non-US external keyboards and also provides a lot of configuration options.

This app does NOT require a rooted device and there is a DEMO version available if you want to try it out before buying.

Features:

International keyboard layouts.
Up to 16 application shortcuts can be added (for example start Google Maps with Alt+M etc.)
Up to 16 text strings can be add (for example insert your email address with Alt+E etc.)
Remaps the Escape key to BACK (can be turned off)
Allows you to control which characters should be treated as combining characters.
A "null" Soft Keyboard to use with hardware keyboards (Bluetooth & USB).
Automatically brings up Input Method selection dialog when Bluetooth keyboard connects or disconnects (Android 2.3+).
Automatic detection can also work with USB keyboards on some platforms (experimental) (Android 2.3+)
App that brings up Input Method selection (for easy access)
Switch between up to three layouts of your choice using a key or key combination.
Can choose keymap automatically based on language setting in your device.
Blocks long-press-popups on Android 2.x.
Change the key repeat delay and rate.
Layouts can be modified and two user defined custom layouts can be configured.

Currently supported keyboard layouts:

Arabic (101, 102 & 102 AZERTY)
Austrian
Belgian
Bosnian & Herzegovian
Czech
Croatian
Danish
English (Colemak, Dvorak, Dvorak Left hand, Dvorak Right hand, Dvorak Programmer, GB & US-nternational)
Estonian
Faroese
Finnish
French (Bépo, Canada, France & Switzerland)
German (Germany & Switzerland)
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian (Numeric)
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal & Br-Nativo)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak (qwerty & qwertz)
Slovene
Spanish (Latin America, Spain/Int & Dvorak)
Swedish
Turkish (F & Q)
Vietnamese

All layouts are based on standard USB Keyboard layouts. Bluetooth keyboards sometimes do not follow the standard completely but it is possible to manually customize mappings.

Characters that can be treated as combining characters

acute
breve
caron
cedilla
circumflex
diaeresis/umlaut/dialytika
dialytika tonos
dot above / dot below
double acute
grave
hook above
ogonek
ring
tilde
tonos

What it does NOT

It won't fix your Bluetooth or USB connected keyboard if it wasn't working in the first place.
It does not automatically switch Input Method. It only shows the dialog and you will have to choose Input Method manually. This is an intentional limitation built into Android by Google. No app is allowed to change Input Method without user interaction (unless the app is a system app).

What's in this version : (Updated : May 6, 2013)

Fixed reverse question mark in Persian (Farsi) layout
Fixed some problems with mapping CTRL to ALT-key
Added keycode for ASCII NUL (sends Unicode 0x0000) (Useful for Emacs)
Made Ctrl+Space send ASCII NUL if Emacs is detected (Only seems to work if Ctrl is remapped because Android blocks space when real Ctrl is pressed, at least on my Nexus devices with Android 4.2.2)
Added Armenian layouts (Eastern, Western and Phonetic)

Required Android O/S : 1.6+
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