Layout & size

The Layout & size screen collects every physical dimension WM Keyboard's keys can take: a digit row, key and row heights, per-screen-shape overrides, and one-handed, split and floating modes. The groups below appear in the same order they do on screen. This page is the field reference. The linked guides carry the reasoning and walk through each group in more depth.

You can reach this screen from the home screen's Layout & size tile, from Accessibility → Touch → Key size & spacing, or from the Split, Floating, and One-handed toolbar tools' own Options panels, each of which has an All layout & size settings row.

Options

Layout & size

A small keyboard preview stays pinned under the title while you scroll. Size and position (with the per-screen overrides) and One-handed, split and floating are pages of their own; Your layouts, Number row, Symbols layer, Numerals and Bottom-row keys stay on the hub.

Your layouts

Layout & size / Your layouts

One toggle per layout you've made or installed yourself, each subtitled with the dictionary it types with, for example "Types with the English · QWERTY dictionary". It's your own layouts specifically: an edited copy of a shipped layout stays attached to its original language instead of showing here twice, and a secondary layout is left out too, since it can't be switched on at all. Turning one on is gated on it validating; switching one off never is. On a fresh install, with nothing of your own yet, the group has no toggles.

A Key layouts row follows, opening Layout & size / Key layouts, documented in full on Custom layouts & the layout editor. Its subtitle reads "Make your own key grid, or start from a built-in one" before you've built anything, and "Edit, add and delete layouts" after. A Download more row closes the group, opening the layout add-on repositories.

Two "Your layouts" groups

The Key layouts screen has its own, differently scoped Your layouts section: layouts you've made or edited there, each with its own edit button. Layout & size's Your layouts group above is enable/disable toggles only, for any custom layout, addon-installed ones included. See Key layouts for the distinction in full.

Number row

Layout & size / Number row

Setting	Control	Range	Default
Number row	Toggle	On / Off	On
Number row height	Slider	32–100 dp	42 dp (40 small tablet / 38 large)
Symbols on shift	Toggle	On / Off	Off
Number row in symbols	Toggle	On / Off	On

Number row adds a dedicated 1–0 row above the letters, so digits don't need a long-press. It's on out of the box on every device, phones included. Turning it on drops the top row's digit long-press alternate, which is redundant once the row exists. The three sub-settings only appear once Number row is on. Number row height sizes the digit row independently of the letter keys. Symbols on shift swaps the row to = \ < > [ ] { } | ~ while Shift is held, instead of showing digits. Number row in symbols keeps the digit row on the ?123 layer too, and turning it off shrinks the keyboard by a row there.

The tablet heights in the table are what you get until you touch the slider. Set it yourself and your value applies on every device. See On a tablet. If you want the digit row on some screen shapes but not others (landscape is the usual one), Per-screen sizing below has its own Number row toggle per shape.

See Number row and numerals for the full walkthrough.

Symbols layer

Layout & size / Symbols layer

Setting	Control	Options	Default
Go back to the letters	Toggle	On / Off	Off
Characters that go back	Text field (shown when the toggle is on)	Any characters	!?.,;:

Go back to the letters returns the keyboard to the letter keys right after you type one of the listed characters on the ?123 layer, so a single full stop doesn't strand you in the symbols. It's the same idea as the emoji panel's Return to keyboard after inserting. It's off by default, because plenty of people open ?123 to type a run of punctuation.

Characters that go back is the list itself. Type the characters you want, with or without spaces between them. Duplicates and spaces are dropped on save, and an empty box falls back to ! ? . , ; :. Digits are deliberately out of that default, since typing "12" is exactly when you want to stay put.

Only single-character keys count, so a .com key or an emoticon key never triggers the return. Long-press alternates do, since they insert a single character too. Both symbol pages are covered, so a character typed on the second page returns to the letters the same way.

Numerals

Layout & size / Numerals

Setting	Control	Options	Default
Type native digits in	Choice	Text fields / Everywhere / Display only	Text fields

Type native digits in controls where a language's native digit glyphs actually get committed, not which glyphs it uses. That per-language picker (Auto, or a forced script like Arabic-Indic or Bengali) lives on each language's own screen under Languages. Text fields, the default, keeps plain 0–9 in number, phone, date and time fields so they stay machine-readable, and types native digits everywhere else. Everywhere commits native digits in those fields too. Display only draws the native glyphs on the keys but always inserts 0–9.

Size and position

Layout & size / Size and position

Setting	Control	Range	Default
Key height	Slider	32–100 dp	48 dp (46 small tablet / 44 large)
Bottom row height	Slider	0–96 dp	0 dp ("Follow keys")
Left padding	Slider	0–30%	0%
Right padding	Slider	0–30%	0%
Key spacing	Slider	0–200%	100%
Bottom padding	Slider	0–160 dp	32 dp (Android 15+) / 8 dp (older)
Keyboard width	Slider	50–100%	100%
Keyboard position (shown only below 100% width)	Choice	Left / Centre / Right	Centre

These sliders set the everyday shape of the keyboard: how tall the keys and the space/enter row are, how much air sits around each key and along the edges, and whether the keyboard docks narrower than the full screen width. For the full breakdown of each one, including how they interact with one-handed mode and split, see Size, position & one-handed use.

Once you've moved anything in this group, a Reset size and position row appears at the bottom of it. It asks first, then puts every slider here back at once. Two sliders it reaches that don't sit in this group come with them: Number row height from the top of this screen, and Key corner radius over on Appearance, which is sizing even though it doesn't live here. The per-screen overrides below are left alone.

Per-screen sizing

Layout & size / Size and position / Per screen

The Size & position values above are your portrait sizes, and the in-app caption calls them your "portrait (folded)" sizes. Three more screen shapes can each override any of them, plus the Number row toggle from the top of the screen, or scale the whole keyboard at once: Landscape, Portrait, unfolded, and Landscape, unfolded. A shape counts as "unfolded" by a live check on the screen's smallest dimension (≥ 600 dp) rather than a fold-sensor read, so a tablet that never folds still counts. Each row reads "Follows portrait" until you set an override, and its own key height and width once you have. Tap a row and its editor unfolds in place:

Field	Range	Falls back to
Keyboard scale	50–150%	100%
Key height	32–100 dp	this screen's base Key height (48 dp)
Number row height (only if Number row is on)	32–100 dp	base Number row height (42 dp)
Bottom padding	0–160 dp	base Bottom padding
Keyboard width	50–100%	base Keyboard width (100%)
Font size	0.7×–2.0×	global Key label font size (1.0×)
Key spacing	0–200%	base Key spacing (100%)
Left padding	0–30%	base Left padding (0%)
Right padding	0–30%	base Right padding (0%)
Bottom row height	0–96 dp	base Bottom row height (0, "Follow keys")
Number row	On / Off	base Number row (On)
Keyboard position (only if resolved width < 100%)	Left / Centre / Right	base Keyboard position

A Follow portrait again row appears at the bottom of the editor once any field is set, clearing the whole override back to "Follows portrait" in one tap.

Keyboard scale has no portrait equivalent. It's a whole-keyboard multiplier that only exists on these three override shapes. It earns its keep on a foldable, whose roomy inner display often wants a smaller keyboard than the cover screen. Font size here is the same field as Key label font size under Appearance settings. This screen doesn't own it, but you can still give it a different value per screen shape from here. Number row is the one override that isn't a number, and landscape is what it's for: least room for a sixth row, most need for the keys under it.

One-handed, split and floating

Layout & size / One-handed, split and floating

Setting	Control	Range	Default
One-handed mode	Choice	Off / Left / Right	Off
Portrait · width (shown only when One-handed mode is not Off)	Slider	40–85%	78%
Portrait · height (shown only when One-handed mode is not Off)	Slider	60–100%	100%
Portrait · side	Choice	Left / Right	Right
Landscape · width (shown only when One-handed mode is not Off)	Slider	40–85%	55%
Landscape · height (shown only when One-handed mode is not Off)	Slider	60–100%	100%
Landscape · side	Choice	Left / Right	Right
Split keyboard	Toggle	On / Off	Off
Split only on wide screens (shown only when Split keyboard is on)	Toggle	On / Off	Off
Split gap (shown only when Split keyboard is on)	Slider	5–40%	12%
Floating keyboard	Toggle	On / Off	Off
Floating keyboard width (shown only when Floating keyboard is on)	Slider	240–500 dp	320 dp
Floating keyboard height (shown only when Floating keyboard is on)	Slider	60%–160%	100%
Keep the keyboard on screen	Toggle	On / Off	Off

One-handed mode tunes separately per orientation. The rail's arrow inside the keyboard flips the side, and it remembers the answer here for whichever orientation you're in. Split divides every row into left and right halves with a gap between them, and Split only on wide screens holds that back until you're in landscape or on an unfolded screen, so rotating out of landscape doesn't leave a portrait phone split in two. Floating detaches the keyboard into a movable, resizable panel. While it's active it replaces the width, position and bottom-padding logic above, though split still works alongside it. Keep the keyboard on screen stops the keyboard from closing when a text field loses focus, so it stays up over screens with no field at all until you hide it yourself. See Keeping the keyboard on screen for what reaches the app and how to close it.

Full detail on all three (plus the floating panel's drag pill and resize grip) is on Size, position & one-handed use.

Bottom-row keys

Layout & size / Bottom-row keys

Setting	Control	Default
Comma key opens emoji	Toggle	Off
Show the 🌐 key	Toggle	On
Emoji key instead of 🌐	Toggle	On
Swap the comma and 🌐 keys	Toggle	On

Emoji key instead of 🌐 is on by default. The bottom-row 🌐 key opens the emoji panel instead of switching language, and language switching moves to a spacebar swipe (Language, by default). Comma key opens emoji takes over the comma key the same way, with comma demoted to a long-press alternate. Turning it on also removes the emoji tool from the toolbar, since the key is meant to replace it.

Swap the comma and 🌐 keys is on by default. Without it the bottom row reads ?123 · , · 🌐 · space · . · ⏎; with it the two keys either side of the spacebar trade places, so it reads ?123 · 🌐 · , · space · . · ⏎. It's a straight positional swap and it runs after the emoji rewrites, so whichever of the two you turned into an emoji key travels with its slot. On the default settings that puts the emoji key in the outer position and the comma next to the spacebar. It applies to every layout, imported and custom ones included, and to the symbol layers too, so the row doesn't reshuffle on the way into ?123.

Show the 🌐 key is on by default. Turn it off and the key is gone from the bottom row of every layout, on the symbol layers too, and so is the emoji key that Emoji key instead of 🌐 puts in its place. The spacebar takes its width, so the row stays the same length. While the key is hidden, Emoji key instead of 🌐 and Swap the comma and 🌐 keys have nothing to change and are greyed out. Language switching stays on the spacebar: a quick swipe does it by default. See Switching languages.

See Switching languages and Opening the emoji panel for what each toggle changes in daily use.

Details & edge cases

• Both emoji-key toggles sit out the expanded tablet grid. A tablet-width grid draws a real emoji key of its own, so applying either toggle there would give you two, and turning the globe into an emoji key would take language switching off the board entirely. On that grid the keyboard ignores both switches, whatever they say here.
• Bottom padding goes a lot higher than it looks like it needs to. The slider runs to 160 dp because the inline Resize tool drives the same value, and dragging the keyboard well up the screen has to land somewhere.
• Per-screen sizing has no "folded" shape. Portrait itself is the base folded size. "Unfolded" is decided live by screen width rather than a fold sensor, so it can flip mid-session on a foldable device.
• "Type native digits in" is not the digit-glyph picker. Which glyphs a language's digits use (Latin, Arabic-Indic, Bengali, Devanagari and so on) is set per language under Languages. This screen only controls where the resulting glyphs get committed.
• Bottom row height's 0 value reads as "Follow keys," not "0 dp." It's the default, and it means the space/enter row matches the letter-key height exactly.
• Bottom padding's default depends on your Android version. It's 32 dp on Android 15 and up, where the IME window can draw behind the gesture bar, and 8 dp on older versions.
• Per-screen overrides don't reset one field at a time. Follow portrait again clears a whole shape instead. Characters that go back has no restore button either, since it's a plain text field: empty it and the built-in !?.,;: comes back. Everything else on this screen has the usual per-setting restore button.
• No edition differences. Every control on this screen behaves the same on the full and lite builds.

Related pages

• Size, position & one-handed use: the full guide to Size & position, per-screen sizing, one-handed mode, split and floating, with screenshots of each in action.
• Key basics: the Number row and Numerals groups, explained alongside the rest of everyday typing.
• Switching languages and Opening the emoji panel: what the two Bottom-row keys toggles change.
• Appearance settings: Key label font size, the same field this screen's per-screen Font size override adjusts.
• Accessibility: the Key size & spacing shortcut that also opens this screen, plus its own touch and vision accommodations.