Minimalist, Nokia-inspired T9 IME for Android feature phones with physical number pads.
- Predictive text entry for English language
- Barebones punctuation (through the 1 key)
- 3 entry modes (cycled with pound key long press)
- Predictive
- Single press pound key to shift to single uppercase or all caps
- Long press zero for newline
- Letter entry
- Single press pound key to shift case
- Long press any key for its number
- Number entry
- Predictive
- Recomposing previously-entered words
Install via ADB:
adb install <release>.apk
Set K9T9 as the active IME:
adb shell ime set com.shortendesign.k9keyboard/.K9InputMethodServiceImpl
On first run after install, K9T9 may take some time to load the word database and populate its data structures. During this time, the word input modes will not work.
- Save a copy of
k9t9.properties-example.
cp k9t9.properties-example ~/k9t9.properties
-
Update settings, such as key code mappings.
For example, to map Android key code
4to theDELETEfunction:key.DELETE=4 -
Copy the updated settings file to your device using
adb
adb push ~/k9t9.properties /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.shortendesign.k9keyboard/files/k9t9.properties
You will need to restart the IME service for the settings to take effect (restarting your device may be the simplest way).
To remove the custom settings file:
adb shell rm /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.shortendesign.k9keyboard/files/k9t9.properties
This IME was initially designed to replace an inferior predictive text engine on a basic Android feature phone. This phone (and I'm assuming others like it) does not run the Google Play store or services, and doesn't even support a UI for selecting a different IME, even if it were installed.
For this reason, I don't have plans to publish this app to the Google Play store. It is intended for those who know and care enough about such Android feature phones to use the Android SDK to set it up manually.
I have also not included any settings UI for the IME.
adb uninstall com.shortendesign.k9keyboard