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Aiming to be the best Dhivehi keyboard for Android ever.
Provide feedback in the form below on this page, and get free upgrades for life for being an early adopter!
Features
Multitap instead of Shift
All of the letters are accessible from the main screen without using a SHIFT key.
Keys that display a small dot in the upper-right corner have additional characters that can be obtained by a long-press. In most cases, a faster method to get these additional characters is to tap the key again.
For example:
Double-tap ނ to get ޏ , and triple-tap it to get ޱ .
Or long-press ނ to select an alternative from the pop-up.
Auto-Complete
Predictive text allows you to quickly auto-complete a word.
As you type, simply select the word that completes what you've keyed.
(Suggestions are based on the 18,000 words occurring most frequently in a 3.6 million-word corpus of 6442 online Dhivehi articles.)
Speed Punctuation
The seven most-common punctuation characters are accessible from the main screen.
Press the full-stop/period key . additional times for open parenthesis, exclamation point, or question mark.
Press the comma key ، additional times for close parenthesis or colon.
Wealth of Special Characters
A wide assortment of special characters is available on the symbols screen, including RLM/LRM, and many kinds of dashes, brackets, and currency symbols.
Press the 1#@ key on the main screen to switch to the symbols screen.
Long-press on the $ key to select from the available currency symbols.
Long-press on the open/close parenthesis key ( / ) to select from special brackets.
Tap again on the hyphen - key to get longer dashes.
Use the RLM / LRM next to characters needing better right/left direction control.
Smart Quotes
Use left/right quotes automatically, from the sukun key ް on the main screen.
When you need a quote mark, tap the sukun key ް once to type a single quote, or twice to type a double quote.
At the start of a word, it will automatically be a right quote. At the end, it will be a left quote.
Keyboard FAQs
How can I type a word in English?
Most Android devices display a keyboard-switching button in the navigation bar when a keyboard is active. This makes it very quick and easy to switch over to Gboard for English, and then switch back to this Dhivehi keyboard. If your device is configured to use an alternative means of navigation rather than the on-screen navigation bar, you may want to consider changing those settings.
However, if there are a significant number of users who would prefer building English into this Dhivehi keyboard, we'd consider that. Of course, switching between Dhivehi and English will require allocating screen space for a button to switch back and forth, and it could result in slower behavior for the Dhivehi keyboard. Please use the feedback form below to tell us your preference!
How can I type emoji characters?
Virtually all chat apps provide a means to access emoji characters separate from the keyboard. Since we are making the entire Thaana alphabet available on one layer as well as the auto-complete suggestions, it costs our users screen space to provide a button for emoji. Also, on most devices it's very quick and easy to switch over to Gboard when you need an emoji character in an app that doesn't provide them. But if you feel this feature would be an important addition, please include that in your feedback on the form below.
Keyboard Feedback
After you install the keyboard and use it for an hour or so, please use the form below to provide feedback to help make this app the best Dhivehi keyboard ever.
Your responses are strictly confidential. They will not be recorded until you press the Submit button on the final page.
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