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Hacker's Keyboard

Four- or five-row soft-keyboard

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Opens the official F-Droid page

About Hacker's Keyboard

There are about thirty different languages covered, which can be enabled in the

settings.

For the five-row layout, the keyboard has separate number keys, punctuation in

the usual places; tab, ctrl and arrow keys.

It is based on the AOSP Gingerbread soft keyboard, so it supports multitouch for

the modifier keys.

Completion dictionaries are only possible via plug-in packages, available from

the website, though there is no template for building these from source.

Anysoftkeyboard dictionaries don't appear to work.

The permissions requested by the application are those needed by the underlying

Gingerbread keyboard.

It uses the contacts information for completion of names and email addresses,

and audio recording for the voice input feature.

How to install Hacker's Keyboard

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open Hacker's Keyboard from your app drawer.

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