With just 2 days to go, it will be really helpful if the mentors could suggest some ways to make the proposal stronger. Also, I was wondering if should push the small experiments I did with the SoftKeyboard to git and share it with my proposal.
Thanks, *Suvonil Chatterjee* *Undergraduate Student, BITS Pilani <http://bits-pilani.ac.in>.* * * *Design Intern, *Rovio. *UI Architect, *Framebench(Previously Anaya Labs). *Lead Design , *TunePatrol. My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://facebook.com/suvonil> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/suvonilc> My portfolio: *www.suvonil.in* <http://www.suvonil.in> Contact: 91 666 84 822 On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Suvonil Chatterjee <[email protected]>wrote: > there are a couple of keyboard layouts/input methods available on the >> Android Market (Play). Have you had a chance to look at them ? > > That was the very first thing I did. I downloaded the MultiLing > keyboard<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klye.ime.latin&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rbHllLmltZS5sYXRpbiJd>and > the Mayabi keyboard(which turned out incompatible with my SGS II). The > multiLing keyboard has a decent layout (with matras on one side and the > consonants on the other). However, I didn't understand the thought process > behind the location of the consonants. Some of the more used ones where at > a greater distance for the thumb as compared to other less used ones. Also, > the rendering of conjuncts was messed up (may be it's because of my phone). > The fast prediction system was pretty impressive. What I understood was the > need for a better layout, a more intuitive entry system and bigger keys. > > Additionally, did you include within your study time, any reading on >> the why and how of the currently available layouts for Bengali ? > > Yes. I made it a point to read up as much as possible about Bengali (and > Hindi/Devnagri) keyboards and the design principles involved in each. The > keyboard layouts I read up about are Baishakhi Inscript Layout, > Uni-Geetanjali Layout, Samit Toptype Layout and WEBEL Layout and > also comparative studies on their performance. Apart from these, I also > went through soft keyboard implementations of popular English keyboard > styles (like Dvorak, Fitaly, Opti, Cirrin, Lewis etc.) in Bengali. > > *Suvonil Chatterjee* > *Undergraduate Student, BITS Pilani <http://bits-pilani.ac.in>.* > > * > * > *Design Intern, *Rovio. > > *UI Architect, *Framebench(Previously Anaya Labs). > > *Lead Design , *TunePatrol. > > > My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://facebook.com/suvonil> [image: > Twitter] <http://twitter.com/suvonilc> > My portfolio: *www.suvonil.in* <http://www.suvonil.in> > Contact: 91 666 84 822 > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Suvonil Chatterjee <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, I'm Suvonil, currently in my second year of Electronics Engineering >> @ BITS Pilani. I've been lurking around the mailing list and the irc >> channel for the last 10-12 days but didn't introduce myself till I had done >> some solid work. It's been really exciting to go through all the factors >> that are considered while designing a keyboard layout, the challenges one >> faces with Indic languages and brainstorming about the same with my >> friends. The small test runs with trying to render ASCII characters on the >> keys in Android served as a reminder that nothing worth doing is ever easy. >> Anyways, I finally submitted my proposal last night. >> >> I'll probably end up asking this and more on the proposal, but here's >> a preliminary query - there are a couple of keyboard layouts/input >> methods available on the Android Market (Play). Have you had a chance >> to look at them ? Additionally, did you include within your study >> time, any reading on the why and how of the currently available >> layouts for Bengali ? >> >> -- >> sankarshan mukhopadhyay >> <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Project-ideas mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in >> > >
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