Add Home and End key to additional keys

[Dacid99]

Would it be possible to add an Home and End key to the additional keys i can add to the keyboard?
It would be very useful when navigating text.

Thank you for the amazing project, it's exactly the keyboard i always wanted (i absolutely love the math symbols section!) !

[Julow]

Home and end are on Fn+left and right. Do you need them directly on the keyboard ?

[Dacid99]

Yeah that would be very helpful. I have exactly the space for those two on the qwertz keyboard on the d and f key, and directly on the keyboard with a swipe is much quicker than fn and swiping. Thank you for the quick reply!

[Spike-from-NH]

I want this too—often use Shift-Home and Shift-End too. One can specify "home" and "end" in the .XML custom layout:
< key key0="right" key7="end"/ >

[Julow]

I've added home, end, page up and page down to the extra keys in 33653a9 and placed them on the same key as the arrows:

It looks a bit messy when they are all enabled but it's ok when only two are enabled. Could you try it and check whether it's usable ?
Debug build can be found here: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/actions/runs/6586462297

[Dacid99]

Yeah that works very nicely!

Did i understand Spike-from-NHs comment correctly, is there the option of adding a custom layout by myself?
If yes, how would I do that?

[Julow]

When selecting a layout in the settings, at the bottom of the list is "Custom layout". Here's an example of a layout: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/blob/master/res/xml/latn_qwerty_us.xml

[Julow]

Feel free to open this issue again if the new placement is problematic. I'm worried that arrow keys are harder to use due to accidentally typing home or end.

[Dacid99]

Ok that was unexpected-ly simple, thanks a lot!
I will be using this version now, if i get annoyed because of frequent mistyping ill report on it.
Keep up the great work!

[Spike-from-NH]

Did i understand Spike-from-NHs comment correctly, is there the option of adding a custom layout by myself? If yes, how would I do that?

Yes, @Dacid99. @Julow taught me how to do so in my closed #345. The Preferences have changed since then, but the essence is to prepare your custom XML file,* copy it into your phone's clipboard, activate Preferences (gear icon), select the custom layout, then paste it in. (Select All then Paste if updating.)

.* #365 describes a web-based tool that accepts your gestures and writes the XML for you.

[Dacid99]

Did i understand Spike-from-NHs comment correctly, is there the option of adding a custom layout by myself? If yes, how would I do that?

Yes, @Dacid99. @Julow taught me how to do so in my closed #345. The Preferences have changed since then, but the essence is to prepare your custom XML file,* copy it into your phone's clipboard, activate Preferences (gear icon), select the custom layout, then paste it in. (Select All then Paste if updating.)

.* #365 describes a web-based tool that accepts your gestures and writes the XML for you.

Super, thank you very much.
Maybe it would be a good idea to add these informtions to the description so everyone is aware of this option.