Hello,
What is the best way to install a font onto an Android 4.4.2+ device to support unicode character display? I'd rather not root or install Cyanogenmod.
My situation is this:
I've put together a custom keyboard in Keyman Developer 9 that uses a mostly French layout with a few special characters thrown in for a language in French West Africa.
I'm using Code2000 on developer to support the special characters (uncommon vowels and stacked diacritics).
However, when testing over the web on my mobile device, Chrome will not support the special characters. Tapping in the textbox brings up the keyboard as expected, with all characters displayed properly. But typing any of the special vowels with or without diacritics shows no response in the textbox. Is there a way to upload a screenshot to this forum?
I expect this is because the characters are not supported in my default Android font, or a setting of the Chrome app. Is this issue well-known? I've found plenty of advice for installing custom fonts on stackexchange and such, but they all seem to depend on more customization -rooting- than I need right now.
Regards,
Esther
Topic To root or not to root: testing on Android
We have two new locations for Keyman technical support:
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| Esther Showalter | |
| # RE: To root or not to root: testing on Android 2016-01-19 15:01:15.197 | |
| Marc Durdin Tavultesoft Staff | Yes, this is one of the big problems with Android right now for us. There is no supported way to install fonts on Android devices. This makes it hard for me to recommend Android devices in general unless the language is explicitly supported by the version of Android you have.
Some workarounds which may be of some use:
Hope this helps! |