I don't know if somebody has the same problem: on Xperia XA2 with SFOS 4.5.0.19 Dolphin only shows a small square sometging in the bottom left corner. I installed core, german and english language... What do I do wrong?

Hi Saberaltria,

wow, this is excellent work!

Although some issues are really annoying:

1. "Caps lock" (double tap on Shift Key) does not work in the English+ keyboard.
    
   Workaround by LeChuck (2015-11-05):
   Insert in /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/dolphin/KeyboardLayout.qml at about line 83: property bool capsLockSupported: true
    
   This seems to be a bug in Dolphin Core, please fix that.
    
2. Dictionary statically set in /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/Xt9InputHandler.qml (to EN), i.e. it does not evaluate the first two letters of languageCode= in a layouts/<dolphin keyboard name>.conf, as layouts/Xt9Handler.qml does.
   I wonder, if it is correct to specify handler=layouts/Xt9Handler.qml (especially in conjunction with languageCode=<two capital letter language code> +, instead of languageCode=<two capital letter language code>) in a layouts/<dolphin keyboard name>.conf (and not handler=Xt9InputHandler.qml)?
    
3. Some emoticon icons seem to not have a corresponding black & white (monochrome) font symbol installed, displaying them corrupted (e.g. in TinyEdit).
    
4. No possibility to clear the emoticon history (i.e. first emoticon section).
    
5. Arrow Keys do not work for Android apps.
    
   The English QWERTY Arrow Keyboard (sailfish-en_ios) has the same issue; it would be interesting to know, if the Arrow Keys of hardware (Bluetooth) keyboards work for Android apps.
   This looks, as if Jolla should enhance the AlienDalvik integration in SailfishOS a bit more. ;)
    
6. In landscape orientation:
   1. Tapping on emoticon section headers in the emoticon menu does not work (always shows first section). 
      Workarounds:
      • Changing between emoticon sections with an left / right sliding / swiping motion works well.
      • Flipping to portrait orientation, tapping on emoticon section headers there and flipping back to landscape orientation does also work.
   2. Tapping on the Backspace Key in the emoticon menu (upper right corner) does not work. 
      Workarounds:
      • Flipping to portrait orientation, tapping on the Backspace Key in the emoticon menu there and flipping back to landscape orientation does work.
      • Switching to regular keyboard, using the Backspace Key there and (eventually) going back to the emoticon menu also works.
   3. Sometimes the Dolphin keyboard elements (emoticon icon and Arrow Keys) just vanish (usually together with the dictionary word suggestions, but the clipboard is still there). This happens much more often in Android apps. 
      Workaround:
      • Flipping to portrait orientation makes the Dolphin keyboard elements visible (and usable; plus the word suggestions) again, that stays the same when flipping back to landscape orientation (until they may vanish again).
   4. The vertical positioning of the middle row when using "split keyboard" is sometimes somewhat arbitrary. It works extremely well most of the time, showing exactly the currently most likely needed function on top (out of clipboard, Dolphin keyboard elements and dictionary suggestions), while the other functions are reachable by scrolling. But sometimes the split keyboard middle column jumps to an intermediate vertical position, usually showing only half of the Dolphin keyboard elements' top row (i.e. the top row is cut half in height, with its top half being "off-vkeyboard"). 
      Workaround:
      • Scroll the split keyboard middle column.
   5. After the installation of Dolphin core and the English+emoticons keyboard for Dolphin, when triggering the issues 6.1. and 6.2. mentioned above, the virtual keyboard in a specific app (e.g. TinyEdit) was always killed completely. "Restart keyboard" in Sailfish Utilities did not help. Flipping to portrait orientation and back did not help, either. The virtual keyboard would not reappear. (I did not discover "Restart Keyboard Service" in the Dolphin settings app by then, maybe that would have made a difference.)
      After some hours and two reboots, while reproducing keyboard crashes due to issues 6.1. and 6.2. multiple times in order to document them, suddenly the Dolphin English+emoticons keyboard began running stably.
      So now issues 6.1. and 6.2. just do not work, but do not cause crashes of the virtual keyboard anymore.
7. Some people reported, that The Emoji Keyboard (keyboard-custom-emoji) is incompatible with Dolphin Core, but the Dolphin Core RPM seems to not conflict with the keyboard-custom-emoji RPM. Thus they may be both installed at the same time, exhibiting issues (no idea which, see below).
   I have not tried to reproduce this issue, as I manually uninstalled keyboard-custom-emoji in Warehouse before installing Dolphin Core and the Dolphin English+ keyboard.

I am aware, that 1., 2., 4., 5., 6.1., 6.4. and 7. are known issues (and 6.2. very likely closely related to 6.1.), but found only one of the two workarounds for issue 6.1. documented.

HTH and kudos for this really nice software, alleviating the dire need for Arrow Keys in Jolla's original keyboard layouts, obsoleting the old emoticon keyboard from Warehouse and making Function Keys accessible in the virtual keyboard.

The keyboard feels good and great, but the "auto-commit on space" does not work for me, even after enabling it in the options. Perhaps I missed something? 

Also, does anyone knows if there is source code? I found this https://github.com/SaberAltria/harbour-dolphin-keyboard but the code seems out of date.

i want use this keyboard on SFOS-Port on Oneplus X but is downst work. Is there a solution for ?

I've done a de+ layout. It uses the files 'de+.qml' and 'de+conf':

http://www.file-upload.net/download-11030975/de.qml.html
http://www.file-upload.net/download-11030974/de.conf.html

Copied to ' /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts' gives me a working german version.

But how can I get the german word predictions?

I tried to make an italian keyboard layout by copying it.qml content in en+.qml, before latest update it worked, now there are some different problems.
The first is that in dolphin directory the file ContextAwareCommaKey.qml is missing
Second there is some problem with DeadKey and AccentedCharacterKey wich I can't find a solution at the moment

I have an issue to report, since 2.0.0.10 the caplock can no longer be activated on custom keyboard other than the system keyboard, a fix would be greatly appreciated

First off big thanks for the update! It switches blazingly fast again. Very nice!
I also like the new Emoji. I wish we had a unicode font accompanying it. Now we get a lot of empty boxes other than in WhatsUp. Nothing I know could change that. Maybe someone has an idea?

A few bugs and issues:

1: Clipboard delete notice (the hovering one) not aligned to the left of the screen, instead aligned to the right of clipboard icon

2: Caps lock not working

3: No ability to reset Emoji history

4: Emoji and clipboard have to be scrolled in when bringing up keyboard

5: Export of DB/dictionary not working

Can we get more languages & layouts please? Without modding the existing english one. Or a description on how to...

Issue with upgrade 2.0.0.10:

- After upgrade I can't see lettres in special characters pop-up anymore

- Removing Dolphin Keyboard and reboot solved the problem

Switching to this keyboard via longpress spacebar and release takes up to 5 seconds now, can this be fixed? Also is the porting guide mentioned somewhere in the comments really a good way? Can't we build our own keyboard without modifying xt9handler?

I can't use the option to auto commit with spacebar, there's anyone who can use it? ( i'm on 1.1.9.28)

By the way great keyboard :)

I used @cvp 's method to convert it in italian, with the only difference that i didn't rename the files en+.qml and en+.conf, when i renamed them to it+ it didn't work, but i get it working anyway

Hi, the word prediction is missing in 1.1.9.28. Or do i have to alter one of the config files?

Hi Saberaltria,

Thank you for your effort on developing. Will you be able to enable physical keyboard input with BT or TOH Keyboard for Chinese Pinyin? Thank you!

Superb work, a donation is underway!

Very nice keyboard. I modit for german lang. iIts very easy!

@R1v3r

en+.conf => unname in fi+.conf, edit it and change it withwhat you like e.g. name=Finland +
languageCode=FI +

than edit this file:

Xt9Handler.qml , there is a line "language: "EN" => just edit to FI

than edit and rename this:

en+.qml rename => to fi+.qml, than edit this file (fi+.qml) and copy past from "fi .qml" in to fi+.qml BUT only the Letters!!!! not complete :) 

hope you understand it. I try it witht German and works perfect!