[Anubad] [GSOC 12]Project Ideas for New Keyboard layout

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

Hi Sharad,

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:59 PM, sharad dixit <sharad.eminence at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a 3rd year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Information
> Technology,India. I am a regular opensource  developer for private
> organizations and have started off with android mobile development recently
> . I liked the idea of Anubad *New keyboard layout specific to input on
> mobile devices* by Mentor: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay.I would like the
> developers and mentors to point out is project is limited to Android
> plateform or extended for Multiplateform
>
> Looking forward to suggestions from the regular developers.

It's great to learn that the idea listed for input on mobile devices
sounds interesting to you. The idea originated from the fact that with
the ICS release of Android, Indic languages are supported out of the
box. And yet, there aren't many keyboard layouts which take advantage
of the screen real estate and also make input easy. A layout per se
would be multi-platform ie. I'd love to see that included in various
Linux distributions as well. However, the project would consider the
availability on Android handsets and slates/tablets as a measure of
success.

The form on the GSoC 2012 application system will ask you a few
questions in terms of your familiarity with the project ideas, the
amount of time you will be able to commit and so forth. Our IRC
channel is #ankur.org.in on irc.freenode.net

Looking forward to learn more from you about the project.

/sankarshan

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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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