KeyboardKit 9.3
Mar 9, 2025 ·
KeyboardKit 9.3 is out! This minor update adds support for Vietnamese TELEX, VIQR and VNI, makes many locales support Dvorak layouts, and adds support for emoji colon search.
Vietnamese (Beta)
KeyboardKit 9.3 adds support for Vietnamese TELEX, VIQR and VNI, with each supporting QWERTY, QWERTZ & AZERTY. This builds on new diacritics and a new KeyboardInput.Vietnamese namespace.
Since this is in beta, please give it a try and report any bugs you find or improvements to be made.
Dvorak
This version adds Dvorak support to all locales that support QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY & Colemak.
Dvorak is supported by: Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), English (All), Estonian, Filipino, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovenian, Swahili, Uzbek, Welsh
Emoji Autocomplete
KeyboardKit Pro 9.3 adds support for emoji colon search, which integrates with local autocomplete:
Starting a word with colon will provide you with emoji search results in the autocomplete toolbar. This feature can be toggled on and off with the autocomplete settings.
Action Callout Improvements
This version improves the action callout by requiring less swiping and making the callout items less wide when too many are shown to fit the screen when using the button frame width.
The callout also handles swipe gestures on RTL devices properly, which was not the case before.
Easier Setup
This version makes KeyboardKit and KeyboardKit Pro use the same setup function signature, which helps avoiding setup bugs when upgrading from KeyboardKit to KeyboardKit Pro.
Instead of KeyboardKit’s setup(for:) and KeyboardKit Pro’s setupPro(for:completion:), both have a setup(for:completion:) with a slightly different completion signature.
Race Condition Bug Fix
This version fixes a race condition that could cause a keyboard extension’s keyboard settings to be initializer before the App Group syncing was initialized.
Conclusion
KeyboardKit 9.3 adds support for Vietnamese (TELEX, VIQR, and VNI), Dvorak layout, and new emoji autocomplete support. For more info, see the KeyboardKit and KeyboardKit Pro release notes.
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