The Development of the Keyboard Designer

New:
- New setting and new word bar function: Add spaces after replacement (please activate setting and select function if desired!)
- Different colors for marked keys and popup keys now possible
- EDP: Images now also possible for word lamp
- EDP: Copy colors

Revisions:
- Fixed an issue that words were sometimes not auto-replaced (Thanks to Hazel!)
- Fixed wordbar hold action issue
- Added a button to check after a device change whether an extension package has already been purchased (Thanks to Sonny!)
- EDP: Keyboard background image does has now correct size in word bar and edit bar previews
- Fixed a problem, that the keyboard was sometimes not completely shown when used (Thanks to Nik!)

Finally, spaces can be added when accepting word suggestions! Colors can now be copied with the extended design package! Otherwise lots of bug fixes.

New:
- EDP: The height of the keyboard can now be adjusted not only to the screen height but also to the screen width (important for export and import with images)!

Revisions:
- Optimized icon size
- Added hint for upper case mode
- EDP: Vibration and sound will only be played once per function list
- EDP: Popup backgrounds are now rounded when the keys are also rounded
- EDP: Popups can now also use images as background
- Minor fixes
- Necessary changes done for Android 12

New:
- EDP: Copy button for single functions and function lists (also export to clipboard, hold for lock, back button to release lock)
- EDP: Assistant for inserting language-specific special characters in the toolbar of the key tab~
Added language specific special characters for more languages (Czech, Hungarian, Finnish, Croatian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Roman, Slovenian, Turkish)
- Added language "Korean" in list (Greatings to Rodolfo!)

Revisions:
- ETP: function type "Launch app" now shows all existing apps (Thanks to Rob!)
- Icon size unification
- Plus and minus icons can now be changed by holding
- Fixed minor bugs

- New:
- Show usage on design tab for text, numbers or phone
- EDP: Conditions now also for popup functions
- EKP: New options "Save position" and "Restore position" for function type "Move cursor" (useful in combination with multiple functions per action)
- Revisions:
- EDP: Fixed the following functions not being executed after a popup and cut (thanks to Abdallah and Csaba!)
- Preview of the design template can now also show popups

New:
- EKP: New cursor option "move around" for function type "move cursor" (Thanks to Luke!)
- More languages to choose from

Revisions:
- EDP: Fixed, that selecting levels sometimes crashed (Thanks to Abdallah!)
- EDP: Fixed problems with copying functions (Thanks to Abdallah!)
- EDP: Simplified selection logic for conditions
- EKP: Fixed clipboard history display issue

This update includes fixes for reported issues oft the last version as well as a great new option for all cursor movement enthusiasts in the extended keyboard package (EKP)

New:
- EDP: Assignment of several functions to one action/keystroke (requested by many!)
- EDP: Hide buttons when conditions is matching
- EDP: New function types "Change Language" and "Change Level"
- Display design templates when creating a new design, including a simple QWERTY layout (thanks Ian!)
- New setting on the "General" tab: Do not reset design and mode on new field (requested by the lemur research team)

Revisions:
- New themes now have 100% default safe typing area (easier for new users)
- Moving keys and functions is now much faster
- Corrected gaps in the surface

With this version, multiple functions can be assigned to an action in the extended design package (EDP)! Due to the linked condition, several languages are now possible in one design. This makes it easier to design multilingual keyboard templates and offer them on the homepage!

Revisions:
- Fixed that reference to another design was sometimes lost when exporting (Thanks to Abdallah and Maren)
- Fixed several minor bugs (Thanks everyone for reporting!)

- Revisions:
- EKP: Control buttons (Ctrl, Alt) functional again
- Fixed, that undo feature could cause a crash (Thanks to Myracle!)

- Revisions:
- Fixed that sometimes the key keeps marked after releasing it (Thanks to Leander!)

-New:
- The time has come: Undo / redo function on the design and key tab (requested by soooo many ...)
- EKP: "Font format" function type expanded by "underlined" and "striked through"
- Revisions:
- EDP: Font size of the sub-functions is now also displayed correctly (Thanks to Jonathan!)
- ETP: Umlauts are now also adapted with the "Font format" function type
- EDP: Problem with export for 5-digit Unicodes fixed

- Revisions:
- Fixed popups appearing at the top of the keyboard instead of above the key (Thanks to Roland!)

- Revisions:
- Fixed popups appearing at the top of the keyboard instead of above the key (Thanks to Roland!)

New:
- EDP: Shifting of all symbols in the design
- EKP: New function type "Formatting in bold or italic"
- Character sets for Dutch, French, Polish and Italian added

Revisions:
- EKP: Function type "Send picture" now with confirmation
- New keys are now inserted in the line with the fewest keys
- Fixed minor bugs (thanks to Hartmut!)
- Preview of the popup now visible again in whole width (Thanks to Raku!)
- Popups that are higher than the keyboard are now completely displayed again (Thanks to Joshua!)
- A notice is shown that moving keys affects all modes (Thanks to Michael!)

Revisions:
- Fixed a problem that the version number was still displayed when changing the function type (Thanks to Anne!)
- EDP: Vibration or sound added to word bar (if activated, thanks to Franklin!)
- Backgrounds of invisible popup buttons are no longer drawn

- Revisions:
- Fixed that sometimes exported word lists could not be imported again (Thanks to Roland!)
- Popup of the first line can now also be above the word bar (Thanks to Roland!)
- Word bar functions are now always saved (Thanks to Roland!)
- Added shadow above navigation bar
- Minor corrections

- Revisions:
   - Words in the word list can now contain line breaks
   - Keyboard Designer is now opened when the user calls the keyboard settings in the system settings (thanks to Andreas!)

This is the final beta release before releasing 5.0.0. In the next weeks I will do bug fixing and start to work on new features. The big target for version 6 are Glide Typing and Stickures, so you will see a first version of them in the next months…

- New:
- Word bar now also shows completion suggestions (Please give feedback! Thanks to Jörg for food for thought!)
- Revisions:
- Fixed that some number fields showing uppercase letters at the beginning (Thanks to Leander)
- Keyboard is now also displayed for text fields in the assistant
- Fixed that on some devices sometimes the dark background of the assistant was not displayed
- Minor corrections

- Revisions:
- Topics for the word bar added to the assistant
- Function „Move to the previous word“ fixed
- The suggestion for the last word is now also shown after several spaces and punctuation marks
- Fixed optical background errors in fields

- Revisions:
- The cursor can now also be moved to the right and left in all terminal apps (thanks to Sam!)
- EKP: The special functions Ctrl, Alt + Shift can now also be used in all terminal apps (thanks to Sam!)
- Minor bug fixes
- Optical adjustments

- Revisions:
- New look for all fields
- EDP / EKP: image list sorted by name
- Target mode is set correctly again after import (thanks to Leander!) and the new design is selected directly
- ZIP files can now be opened with the Keyboard Designer
- EKP: image sending is possible again
- EKP: Function type "Send image" is now also supported GIFs
- Minor bug fixes

Feature Freeze! All features for the next major version 5.0 are now available. Until V 5.0 is completed, there will only be bug fixes and new topics in the assistant.

- New:
- Additional topics added in the wizard
- Hints can now be displayed in the change log (see above)

-Revisions:
- Navigation moved down so that it is always in the same place (even if there is no keyboard preview) and more space for keyboard entries
- Revised display of function types, now with descriptions
- Selection of images now with preview
- Fixed that keyboard jumps when popup protrudes over keyboard (Thanks to Dixon!)
- Linguistic adjustments
- Bug fixes
- Graphic revisions

- New:
- Search in the assistant
- Word replacements now possible and individually adjustable
- Revisions:
- Fixed that keys could no more be deleted (Thanks to Conor!)

- Revisions:
- Fixed problems with export
- Linguistic simplifications

- New:
- New import dialog (similar to the new export dialog)
- Mode tab integrated in the key tab, making the user interface easier to understand
- Automatic function type change can be switched off, the OK button is no longer overlaid
- EDP: Positions of popups can now be specified (above / on / below the key)
- EKP: New function types: Send image and hide keyboard (Thanks to Ashley!)
- Revisions:
- No more differentiation between necessary and all settings
- Merging of the same setting types into containers for greater clarity
- Fixed a crash when adding an empty word to the word list (Thanks to Csabi!)
- EDP: Sorting of designs and modes possible again (Thanks to Robert!)
- EDP: The list of fonts is now sorted
- Added Hungarian as a language option
- Spanish word corrections (Thanks to Rubén!)

- Revisions:
- Export dialog completely revised, significantly simplified (e.g. ZIP file is now standard format, current keyboard is preselected, optional information is saved, word lists are included), import dialog will look the same in the next update
- EKP: List of apps to be started are now sorted and expanded (thanks to Csabi)
- Adjustments to the word bar

New:
- EDP: Colors (except for the keyboard background) can now be transparent (requested by a large number of users)

Revisions:
- Word bar settings are now in the design tab, the settings can now be saved, the word bar can now always be used in the beta program (but is still early status, further adjustments up to version 5 will take place)
- EKP: More apps are now displayed for start app function type (thanks to Csabi!)
- EDP: The edit bar can display the background image from the keyboard if "color like design" is selected
- EDP: Color of the navigation bar in case of background image now also visible in preview
- Popups in the designer are no longer closed when the app is set to background
- Fixed that the designer sometimes not showing up after launch
- Fixed that Smartwatch could sometimes not be tested on test tab
- Minus symbol placed in front of color controls in order to be consistent with other controls
- Linguistic adjustments
- Miner adjustments

- New:
- First version of the word bar available on the test tab (for clarification)
- ZIP data can now be opened directly and no longer have to be shared with the app
- Revisions:
- Fixed that sometimes the wrong history was written

- Revisions:
- Reduction of the font size of the assistant from 24 to 20 dp
- Assistant is now displayed the first time the keyboard is used to explain key selection (only for new installations)
- Adjustments to the Spanish names

- Revisions:
- Added more assistant topics
- Minor corrections

- Revisions:
- Fixed that when rotating the device with the keyboard open it could crash (thanks to Thomas!)

- Revisions:
- Fixed that the keyboard was sometimes no longer displayed directly after restart

- Revisions:
- Hopefully fixed, that after the first character was written, the focus was lost sometimes
- Hopefully fixed, that some messengers scrolled up at the start (thanks to Toth!)
- Fixed problem that characters were not written if the first key was swiped lightly and the second key was touched at the same time
- Fixed a problem where the keyboard was sometimes hidden again at startup

- Revisions:
- More topics added to the assistant
- Smaller bug fixes

New:
- Info tab shows the first draft of the wizard
- Added character group emojis

- Revisions:
- Fixed problem when editing multiple keys at the same time (Thanks to Fadi!)
- The soft navigation bar now takes on the background color of the keyboard (requested by many!)
- Corrected the width of the function selection (was always wide after popup)
- Key repetitions could hang up in connection with popup (Thanks to Aaron!)
- Fixed that repetition duration was sometimes not displayed and not always executed correctly (Thanks to Dixon)
- Fixed that after changes on the settings tab the keyboard was sometimes completely recalculated with each touch, this reduced the speed extremely
- Minor adjustments (Thanks to the feedback!)

- Revisions:
- EDP: Fixed a problem saving the color after removing an image (Thanks to Mike!)
- EDP: Fixed a problem with special characters in ZIP file names
- Fixed problem with display of change notification
- Fixed a problem that occurred when the function type to show/hide the edit bar was assigned to a popup (thanks to Roland!)
- Keyboard image can now be shared again (Thanks to Mike!)
- Minor adjustments

Revision:
- EDP: Fixed a problem that can occur when importing keyboards (Thanks to Austin!)

New:
- EDP: Export and import does now support ZIP file (contains keyboard data, images, fonts)

Revisions:
- Fixed bug when deleting characters when entering passwords (Thanks to Thomas!)
- EDP: Fixed issue with moving designs or modes (Thanks to Mike!)
- EDP: Images as key background are now displayed again
- EDP: Rounded keys are now also possible for keys with an image background
- The edges of marked keys are now displayed correctly
- The borders of popups are now always drawn

- New:
- EKP: New function type to start apps (e.g. for translators, notes, ...)

- Revisions:
- Selection lists are now displayed as dialogs so that all entries can always be selected (Thanks for the feedback to everyone!)
- EDP: Background images of popups are now also shown in the preview
- EDP: The OK button is now also displayed when copying functions or keys, if there are a lot of modes (thanks to Austin!)
- EDP: Copying the send function no longer loses the individual text sizes (thanks to Austin!)
- EKP: The additional fields for special functions, history, keyboard changes are now also displayed in popups (Thanks to Christoph!)
- EKP: The history of the clipboard is now displayed (Thanks to Niko!)
- Minor bug fixes (Thanks to Mike & Robin!)

- New:
- EDP: Images can now be used for the background of keyboards and keys
- Revisions:
- EDP: Fixed a problem that could occur when moving design and mode after deleting another one before

- Revisions:
- EDP: Fixed problem that could occur when moving designs (Thanks to Vincent!)
- Problem solved, that app might crash after switching back to it (Thanks to Austin for reporting!)

- Revisions:
- EDP: Adding fonts from SD card is now also supported and it is now also possible to share them as a ZIP file to the app (Thanks to Austin for the tip!)

New:
- Show notification after update
- EDP: Import of fonts (settings tab)
- Extended Keyboard Package (EKP, in-app purchase) with new function types
- EKP: Special functions: Tab, F1, F2, .., Button A, ...
- EKP: Change keyboard (other installed keyboard)
- EKP: Voice input (if Google voice input is installed)
- EKP Show history (input and clipboard)
- EKP: Support UTF-8 (e.g. for SSH)
- EKP: Empty key

New:
- EDP: You can now change the sorting of designs and modes
- EDP: Color codes can be entered directly
- EDP: Use of a font installed on the device for your keyboard (Settings tab)
Revisions:
- Adjustment of the unicode search to find symbols in a better way
- Fixed problem with incorrect output of some characters (e.g. small i without dot u0130) (Thanks to D.Y.!)
- Symbols of the symbol search are now displayed in the middle, as some have been cut off (thanks for the hint!)
- Fixed: the character groups were sometimes not displayed when the designer was launched from the keyboard (thanks for the hints!)
- Fixed that sometimes the reference to another mode was not taken over when exporting / importing or copying (thanks to Roland!)
- Preparations for word lists and other features of version 4

- Revisions:
- Sometimes the text on the OK key was not displayed (thanks to Leander!)
- The function names were not completely displayed on some devices
- Now all types of spaces (e.g. blank space) are displayed in the formula bar (thanks for the tip!)

- New:
- Help texts for all settings can now be activated on the design tab
- The currently used design can now also be set on the test tab
- Revisions:
- Fixed problem that the push function was sometimes not executed (Thanks to Csabi!)
- The 'magnifier' is now called 'edit bar'
- Optical adjustments in the surface
- Minor corrections

- Revisions:
- Fixed problem that the symbols of sub-functions were no longer displayed (thanks to Thomas!)

- Revisions:
- The cursor is now placed at the end after copying and thus corresponds to the system behavior (thanks to Austin!)
- Optimization of memory management when app is started multiple times
- Minor fixes reported by users

- Revisions:
- Fixed problem that the function window could not be opened a second time
- EDP: Fixed problem that vibration was set to 250 ms
- EDP: If the device does not support vibration, a corresponding message is displayed

- Revisions:
- EDP: It is now possible to delete several keys at the same time
- EDP: Problem with inserting keys fixed (thanks to Austin)
- EDP: Function for switching vibration and sound on / off now works
- EDP: Vibration and sound are now also present for magnifyer
- EDP: Vibration type can now also be set

- Revisions:
- Fixed problem that checkboxes on Settings tab were not set after changing the app
- Vibration is now stopped before the next key is triggered
- The button selection was sometimes displayed when using the magnifyer

- New:
- EDP: Vibration or sound when a key is pressed
- EDP: Mark multiple keys
- EDP: Copy designs and keys
- EDP: Setting the font size of sub-functions
- Revisions:
- Fixed an issue where swiping up was not triggered at certain keyboard heights
- Rework of the standard keyboard
- Graphical adjustments

- New:
- Display instruction how to import keyboards (thanks to Max)
- Revisions:
- Rework of the drawing of keys, they will now be centered correctly
- Now version number can be shown in sub-functions (thanks to Leander)
- If a move function is executed in the magnifyer, the character will no longer be marked (was problem with narrow columns)
- Minor corrections

- New:
- Snack bars are not shown when the function type is changed automatically
- Setting to close key selection without having to press the X symbol (thanks to Leander)
- EDP: possibility to enter symbols directly with keyboard (required by many users)
- Revisions:
- Set function type to "None" automatically when symbol is deleted (thanks to Leander)
- Fixed problem with swipe functions on the edge
- Color for unsafe type area is now exported
- Minor corrections

New:
- Support Android Q
- Splashscreen when starting the app
- New versioning consisting of major, minor and revision number
- Show the version number on the designer key
- Show changes of the last three versions in the designer
- The Extended Design Package (EDP) is now available, which provides additional functions for a one time fee
- EDP: Export and import of keyboard data
- EDP: Round buttons
- EDP: Color gradients for keys and backgrounds
- EDP: Unlimited number of output characters, keys per row and rows

Revisions:
- Optical improvements of the designer
- Minimum height reduced from 10 to 5 % to support single-line layouts in a better way
- If a symbol but no function is selected, function "Add output to editor" is set automatically (thanks to Austin for the idea!)
- Fixed problem with deleting popup buttons (thanks to Max!)
- Action right and left at the edges now possible (thanks to Leander!)
- Many minor fixes

-Phone / Tablet:
- User interface now available in Spanish (Gracias Pablo !!!)
- Smartwatch:
- User Interface now available in Spanish (Gracias Pablo !!!)

New version 2.09 for beta testers released:

+ New features smartphone / tablet:
- On request, only necessary settings can be displayed
- Display mode can be selected in the wizard
- Function added to change the colors, magnifier and key selection of all designs at once
- Info tab added to show important data

To fix the reported problems the new open beta version 0.82 was created.

- Improved display of the password in the magnifyer (only if activated)
- Minor corrections
- Optimized automated tests

To fix the reported problems the new open beta version 0.81 was created.