Keyman Developer

Keyman Developer introduces keyboards that can run on desktop and touch devices, with basic or customizable layouts, embedded into your applications, mobile services, or websites.

Being open-source, the Keyman keyboards you build can easily be integrated into a variety of applications, all from desktop to mobile, with compatibility support for different platforms, on desktop and touch devices — Windows, macOS, iPhone or iPad, Android, and even web applications.

Hosted on the Keyman Cloud, its core and keyboards can be sourced via different JS script implementations done into the back-end of your website, for both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints.

Upon initiating a new Keyman instance, you can opt for different project types, such as 'basic,' for a keyboard project (for a project that matches the folder structure from a Keyman keyboards repository), a blank keyboard project, an import from a Windows keyboard type, a model called 'Wordlist Lexical Model' (a Keyman lexical-model lookalike), or a type called 'Blank Lexical Model.'

Each type of project comes bundled in with a set of explanatory models. You automatically get a project creation and configuration guide that includes information such as source file type inputs and outputs, deployment requirements and building assistance, as well as packaging and layout distribution options.

The Windows application Keyman Developer is a free resource. Through the app, you can access a service with minimal usage restrictions (mostly due to technology limitations). Moreover, the application is a full-fledged keyboard development tool, and it allows developers to use and customize their models (including adding keyboard dictionaries, to grant storage permissions on different devices, and others).

The development tool let you pick from over 2000 different languages, including exotic ones, such as Ancient Greek, Tibetan, Urdu, Burmese, Sinhala, Eurolatin, and more.

To understand your options better, check the service's language availability page, and to get started with Keyman, look at the Keyman general documentation overview.