What's New

Keyman Engine for Android Breaking Changes:

• Moved minimum Android SDK to from 19 to 21 (Android 5.0 Lollipop) with corresponding Chromium minimum release M37 (#2993)

• Keyboards now strictly installed from .kmp keyboard packages. 3rd party apps should include their "default" keyboard and lexical model packages at the project's assets/ level. KMManager will extract them into assets/packages/ and assets/models/ respectively. (No longer append version string to .js keyboard file and manually copy to assets/cloud/ folder)

  • sil_euro_latin keyboard no longer included as a default installed keyboard

• Replace Fabric/Crashlytics with Sentry for crash reporting

• build.gradle changes for 3rd party keyboard apps:

android {
  // Don't compress kmp files so they can be copied via AssetManager
  aaptOptions {
     noCompress "kmp"
  }

  compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
  }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:3.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.preference:preference:1.1.1'
}

• Deprecated KMManager APIs
  • KMManager.showLanguageList() - Keyman Engine for Android no longer uses cloud keyboard catalog, so showLanguageList() no longer displays. (Embedded browser used to search for keyboards)
  • KMManager.KMKey_CustomKeyboard - "Custom" property for keyboards no longer tracked
  • KMManager.KMKey_CustomModel - "Custom" property for lexical models no longer tracked
  • addKeyboard - Deprecate syntax using HashMap<string, string>. Replace with <Keyboard>

See Also

• Keyman Engine for Android Documentation