Keyman 12.0 fatal error for older Android devices

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I have been using Keyman for Android for many years on my Smartphone Samsung Galaxy J1.

Since October I receive the following error message when I start Keyman: “Fatal error with null. Loading default keyboard”.

I use version 12.0.4209 of Keyman and Android 4.4.4

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Hi @Fran

Keyman 12.0 introduced a new feature for Predictive Text services that can be used with keyboards.
Unfortunately, it’s currently incompatible with some older devices (Android 4.4 to Android 6.0) and prevents a Keyman keyboard from loading.

@joshua_horton started working on a fix but we don’t have an estimate when that will be ready.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but can you roll back to Keyman 11.0.2107 for now?

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We are working hard on trying to get a fix by the end of this week to resolve this on older Android devices.

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Thank you very much.

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Sorry for the delay. We’ve made progress but there’s still some remaining issues to get Keyman working on older Android devices.

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Good news @Fran

Thanks to @joshua_horton 's persistence, Keyman 12.0.4215 should work for your device!
I was able to use the predictive text on the default sil_eurolatin keyboard it in an emulator.

Please download the Keyman update and see if it works for you.

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Yes, Keyman 12.0.4215 works. Thank you very much.

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That’s great news; thanks for the feedback!