Using the Keyman button to switch between keyboards packaged in the app does not work for me. I can see both keyboards listed, but pressing either immediately closes the selection window and returns me to the first keyboard.
Here’s why I need it:
The language community served by my keyboard highly values being able to type emoji and English words mixed into their language. On phones that display the navigation buttons as elements on the screen, (at least for more recent versions of Android??) they should get a handy keyboard-switching button to the right of these whenever a keyboard is active:
But devices with hardware navigation buttons (like my Moto g6) don’t have this, so switching keyboards is laborious: You swipe down to see notifications, find the one relating to keyboard switching, click it, select the desired keyboard, etc. Quite a pain just to insert a smiley face or English word in the middle of vernacular text.
To switch between Keyman keyboards would be pretty quick, but it doesn’t work for me. Is it supposed to?
Also, including an emoji keyboard in the package results in the lexical model suggestions not showing up for the primary keyboard.
We have a similar issue with a language group (Jennu Kurumba), that is scattered across 3 states, and using 3 different scripts. (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada). We have built a bible app with all 3 scripts and planning to build also a Keyboard app for the team. All keyboards were embeded, with lexical models also, but the issue observed is that switching is not possible. Only the first keyboard selected will work even if we try to change it. Reinstalling the app will give the possibility to select another keyboard.
I am experiencing the same problem with my dual keyboard KAB app. I just upgraded KAB to 2.5 and am not able to switch my keyboard between two keyboards. I’m experiencing the same problem that Den_Em described. I click the globe, attempt to pick the second keyboard, the keyboard area goes black, and it reverts to the initial keyboard.
Can I check if this is supposed to be working? It doesn’t seem to be for me with KAB 2.6.3. Also I have major problems trying to manage a single keyboard with 4 dictionaries (for different languages). I’ll ask a separate question about this.
