Hi Radek, great initiative. Have you considered using the layout and gestures developed for the Quikwriting system. [1] This is also available for OpenMoko as Qwo. [2]
Look forward to seeing how this develops. Harry [1] http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/demos/quikwriting.html [2] http://www.nongnu.org/qwo/ 2009/2/7 Radek Polak <[email protected]>: > Hi, > i am glad to anounce first version of accelerometer based keyboard > for Android. > > For now it can generate MENU, HOME and BACK keys. It is possible to > control press lenght so that HOME key can be used to display running > applications. > > How to use it: > > - Either try in my prebuild SD card image [1] > - Patch your source code - see attached file accel_keyboard.tar.gz > - Just try AccelControl.apk in attached file - it just prints > on the screen - no keys are sent. > > Here is some info how to generate gestures: > > Gesture evaluation always starts from postion where the phone is on the > table. This is Ax = 0, Ay = 0, Az = G. > > | /y > ___|/___ > /| x > / |z > > > Currently we support following keys and gestures: > > * MENU - turn around x axis 90 degrees clockwise and back > * BACK - turn around y axis 90 degrees counter clockwise and back > * HOME - turn around y axis 90 degrees clockwise and back > > > I am looking forward your feedback. It can turn out that this whole > keyboard is completely useless :) > > Working now on hardware keyboard on FR so that we can get rid of > the kernel patches. > > Cheers > > Radek > > [1] > http://www.activationrecord.net/radekp/openmoko/android/accelkbd_rootfs.tar.gz > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > android-freerunner mailing list > [email protected] > http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org > > _______________________________________________ android-freerunner mailing list [email protected] http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org
