After nearly a year of being slightly annoyed at my Nexus One’s stock keyboard having only an AZERTY French keyboard as opposed to a  QWERTY one we use in Canada, I finally took matters into my own hands and modded the recently “leaked” Gingerbread keyboard to make the French keyboard QWERTY. Download below.

Après près d’un an avec mon Nexus One et son clavier soit anglais, soit AZERTY, j’en ai eu assez et ai décidé de modifier le clavier Android pour permettre l’entrée du texte français via un clavier QWERTY. Téléchargement disponible ci-dessous.

gingerbreadkb-multilang-update-signed-fr_CA-qwerty.zip-signed.zip

References/This would not have been possible without:

• Original idea: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8494#c18
• How to create a signed apk: http://www.androiddevelopment.org/tag/jarsigner/
• How to create a signed update.zip: http://www.robmcghee.com/android/creating-an-android-update-zip-package/
• Original Gingerbread keyboard with French dictionary: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9794752&postcount=109

2 Responses to “Canadian french keyboard goes mobile!”

1. Pitrick says:

   2011-01-22 at 23:23

   Firefox 3.6.13 Windows 7
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

   Hey Matthieu,

   J’ai downloadé ton zip du Gingerbread Keyboard…j’ai flashé le zip a partir du recovery..et maintenant mon keyboard force close…je sais pas si tu as un idée pourquoi ça ferait ça?

   Je roule Android 2.2.2 sur mon N1 … Merci

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2. titaniumtux says:

   2012-03-16 at 23:31

   Firefox 11.0 Ubuntu x64
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0

   azerty ce n’est pas anglais…

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