v42.0

Hindi Support

Version 42.0 adds the Hindi language, fixes the crashing when changing the language on older Android versions, and allows you to adjust the Virtual Numpad width for easier one-handed typing on large phones.

What's Changed

• Languages
  • Added Hindi (phonetic layout). (#577) Many thanks to @Docbroke for the crash course in Hindi.
• Bugs
  • When word filtering is on, the suggestions with diacritics are correctly sorted by length. They used to appear randomly towards the end of the list.
  • Fixed a crash when switching between languages and Korean is enabled (on Android 5 and 6) (#683)
  • Fixed a crash when shutting down or when switching to another keyboard
  • Fixed Backspace not erasing text emoticons properly after '1' has been pressed multiple times (on Android 4 and 5 only)
  • Fixed words not becoming more popular when you scroll the suggestion list before completely typing any of the words from the list.
  • Fixed words not becoming more popular when filtering is on.
• Features
  • It is now possible to adjust the Virtual Numpad width for easier one-handed typing on large devices (#680)
  • Minor virtual keypad adjustments
  • Removed the Korean punctuation hack option
• Technical
  • New word processing scripts for Asian languages
  • Removed the hardcoded special characters from language validation. Now reading them from the .yml.
  • improved method of hiding the letters on the 0 and 1 keys, when needed
  • improved the single-letter validation during build time
  • upgraded com.android.application 8.7.2 -> 8.7.3
  • Removed the encrypted dependencies block from the APK to make publishing on F-droid possible again

Full Changelog: v41.0...v42.0