Besides the basic Qwerty keyboard some android phones, eg: Samsung phones, have inbuilt Malayalam Board. But they are not active by default. One has to activate Malayalam to start to type Malayalam in SMS, Mail, Facebook, Evernote etc.
Activating Malayalam - Settings > Language and Input > Multiple Languages > Select Input Language > Malayalam
Once activated input language can be changed at will by dragging on the space bar.
Malayalam comes in 3 layers.
The first layer contains the basic swara akshara and vyanjana
Clicking on the top-left key marked o-| will open up the next 2 layers which contains the swara chihnams. (This layer opens up automatically following typing any vyanjana). The difference from the first layer is that this layer contains the swara chihnas.
The third layer never opens up automatically but can be opened by clicking on the o-| key.
Note that the letters ള ഴ റ റ്റ and atomic chillaksharas ൺ ൻ ർ ല് ൾ are available in this layer,
Unlike Inscript Keyboard, zero width joiner and zero width non-joiner are not available in Samsung keyboard.
Swipe the space bar to go back to QWERTY
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