Naija Type v64 released – over 1500 downloads a month
After about a year since the last update I had gathered up a few requests for updating Naija Type.
What’s new in version 64?
- Kamuku want to use a diaeresis/umlaut in the list of tone diacritics. I’ve added it after over dot. Quite a few taps on the tone key to get there, but once you know what you’re doing it’s easy enough.
- Kanuri needs a reversed e/E (ǝ/Ǝ Unicode 01DD/018E) on the Q key.
- Also after a few people accidentally discovered the small caps mode, by double tapping on = but then not knowing ᴡʜʏ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡᴇɴᴛ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟᴄᴀᴘꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴛᴏᴘ ɪᴛ, now backspacing in smallcaps mode turns it off.
- Updated the Andika font.
- Updated osk help file and related css to improve website behaviour. (Thanks Lorna from Keyman for this and digging me out of a bit of a GitHub hole I got myself in as I submitted the update.)
It went live on Keyman in June, and then I updated Keyboard App Builder and built a new Keyboard App too, which gives you Naija Type for Android, together with text completion in several Nigerian languages. One sneaky mode is that you can use a combined dictionary with Hausa and English words in it if you’re often writing multilingually. Let me know if you’d like any other combinations there. Also if you have a word list or correctly spelled words for another Nigerian language let me know and I can add that too.
Keyman is quite good at automatically offering updates to keyboards and to the app, so that may well be why the monthly downloads climbed to over 1500 in June. It’s still quite satisfying to know it seems to be useful for so many people. And I use it everyday too for typing Nigerian languages, whether on my phone or on Window or Mac.
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