Thursday 16 June 2016

Inscript Keyboard Android Phones Install Type Malayalam in Malayalam

Credited to Swatantra Malayalam Computing

Download the software from the link in google play store HERE

Supports 23 Indian Languages including Malayalam.
The details of the software is available at the link given above

Installing
The software installs automatically on download.
Wait till you get the message that it has been installed

Options

a) Phonetic
b) Inscript keyboard - Preferable since unlike the physical keyboard in laptop, the keys are labelled on Malayalam 
c) Transliteration
d) Swarnalekha

Configuring the handset

 Settings -> Language & Input
Tap on "Set up input methods".
Tap on the gear icon next to Indic Keyboard.
Tap on "Languages", uncheck "User system language" and choose your language and layout from the list.

The Keyboard
Layer 1
Layer 2 on Shift

Typing

The basic typing is given HERE

Difference is in typing Chillaksharam.
Note that there are two keys marked as ZWJ and ZWNJ

ZWJ - Zero Width Joiner
This key is used to get Chillaksharas. First type the Vyanjana of the chillakshara followed by ് and then click on ZWJ key.
Use ന for ൻ, ല for ല്‍, ള for ൾ, ര for ർ, ണ for ൺ

ZWNJ - Zero Width Non Joiner
This key is used to prevent two letters from joining with each other.
eg: To get proper letters instead of സോഫ്റ്റ്വേര്‍ add ZWNJ before വ to get സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വേര്‍.

Contributors

Jishnu Mohan contributed most of the features and updates.
Anoop P Contributed Swanalekha Layout(beta) and converted java-morelangs module to an Android library.
Sridhar Contributed Kannada Anysoft Keyboard layout.
Hiran Venugopalan contributed Graphic Assets for the project and helped with re-branding 2.0 version.
Anivar Aravind helped with project management.
Indic Project community members (Akshay, Balasankar, Ashik, Santhosh ) contributed documentation.
Many keyboard layouts were adapted from the jquery.ime project of Wikimedia Foundation. They were contributed by volunteers.
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