Keyman Engine for Android

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Overview

Keyman Engine for Android 18.0 is a Java library for Android 5.0 and later versions which enables a fully customisable keyboard layout, both within an app and system-wide. Keyboard layouts for Keyman Engine can be created with Keyman Developer, and a library of existing keyboard layouts is also available.

For keyboard developers updating from an older versions of Keyman Engine for Android, see What's New for breaking changes

Guides

• Build an in-app keyboard
• Build a system keyboard app

Classes

KMManager

The core class for controlling Keyman Engine

KMKeyboard

Keyman's child class of an Android WebView for a keyboard

KeyboardEventHandler

Provides keyboard and lexical-model events and methods to notify registered listeners

See also

• Keyman Engine for Android 17.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 16.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 15.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 14.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 13.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 12.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 11.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 10.0
• Keyman Engine for Android 2.0
• Keyman Developer 17.0
• Keyboard Library
• Keyman Engine for iPhone and iPad