kbdgen

A tool to build keyboard packages for a multitude of platforms using a single, simple text file definition. Supported outputs:

• Linux (X11, m17n)
• macOS
• Windows
• ChromeOS
• iOS/iPadOS
• Android
• SVG
• hit-error correction model as an FST, to be used with our spellers
• CLDR keyboard definitions is presently missing, but is in the pipeline

We think it's pretty cool. Documentation (under construction -- how to update).

Runtime dependency

kbdgen uses convert which is part of imagemagick

For Mac: brew install imagemagick For Linux: <pkg-manager> install imagemagick

Installation

1. get Rust
2. clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/divvun/kbdgen.git
3. cd kbdgen
4. cargo install --path . (this installs kbdgen to the path)

Alternatively - download a precompiled binary from nightly builds:

• Linux (x86_64)
• macOS (x86_64)
• Windows (i686)

Extract the archive, and move the binary to somewhere on your $PATH.

Example Usage

cargo run -- target --bundle-path C:\Projects\Divvun\keyboards\keyboard-sme\sme.kbdgen --output-path C:\KbdgenBuilds\sme_mac macos generate

Let's build an android app. There's two. divvun-dev-keyboard and divvun-keyboard. The former is the unstable one where we do all the testing. The latter one gets pushed to production. Both are deployed as separate apps in google playstore.

Alas, I digress.

We want to build divvun-dev-keyboard. Clone divvun-dev-keyboard.

cd source/divvun
git clone git@github.com:divvun/divvun-dev-keyboard.git
cd ../kbdgen
cargo run -- fetch -b /Users/srdkvr/source/divvun/divvun-dev-keyboard/divvun-dev.kbdgen #fetches deps
cargo run -- target --bundle-path /Users/srdkvr/source/divvun/divvun-dev-keyboard/divvun-dev.kbdgen --output-path ~/source/divvun/android_keyboard android build

Note - you will need imagemagick to run converting of images - so

$ brew install imagemagick@6
$ echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/imagemagick@6/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Your typical commands are

• ... android clone # Clones the base android repository
• ... android generate # Generates all the layouts and speller configs, but doesn't clone stuff
• ... android build # Both of the above.

TL;DR Android

Your

For Android run two commands:

kbdgen target --bundle-path C:\Projects\Divvun\keyboards\keyboard-sme\sme.kbdgen --output-path C:\KbdgenBuilds\sme_android android clone
kbdgen target --bundle-path C:\Projects\Divvun\keyboards\keyboard-sme\sme.kbdgen --output-path C:\KbdgenBuilds\sme_android android generate

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Fork and PR on Github.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.