New Feature Request - Physical Keyboard

[PeterR]

I bought Smart Keyboard Pro a month ago, and I'm very satisfied with it. On touchscreen it is very usable, both in portrait and landscape mode. However, physical keyboard mode needs a new feature: plain old character choosing method. Maybe english language users don't understand why is this useful, so let me give an example: in hungarian language the character "é". To input this character, I have to long press the "e" on the physical keyboard, and then select the "é" on the list with the d-pad (numerous clicks) or tap the "é" on the touchscreen. This slows down text input. It would be pretty nice to input "é" pushing "e" two times.
So basically this whole idea is about to select a specific type of a character by pushing the according "basic" character several times.
Is there any chance that Smart KeyBoard Pro will have this feature?
Note: AnySoftKeyBoard has this feature (there are graphical bugs, but it works).

[cyril]

Actually this is already implemented for some languages, so it's possible. Supporting more languages will just require a bit of time for each one...

[PeterR]

For what languages is it implemented? I mean can I try it out for specific language? If yes, where is the option in the settings menu?

[cyril]

At the moment, only for russian, ukrainian, and arabic. It's not an option, it comes with the global "Physical keyboard" option in "General settings"

[PeterR]

I'm very disappointed with the developers support. Since I posted my problem here, 2-3 newer versions came out on market. But the so simple feature I requested is nowhere.
What's the point of having a feature request forum, if the developers don't implement the requested features.
I purchased SmartKeyboardPro, but i must stick with the free AnySoftKeyboard, because it can handle my physical keyboard as a keyboard application should.
A keyboard software should make information input faster. New skins are nice, but secondary goals in my opinion. As you see, this application has nice skins, etc., I still don't use it, because of this little problem.

Hope this feature will be added soon, I check 'recent changes' frequently on android market.

[c00ller]

As a workaround, perhaps you could try this app? Keyboard Manager
I know the last thing you want is to pay for a workaround but I just want to throw the option out there.

[PeterR]

My phone is not rooted. And I will not root my phone because SKPro.
What is more, I will not waste my ROM on several keyboard application, only because Dexilog doesn't care about software support.

[cyril]

I'm very disappointed with the developers support. Since I posted my problem here, 2-3 newer versions came out on market. But the so simple feature I requested is nowhere.
What's the point of having a feature request forum, if the developers don't implement the requested features.

It's not possible to please everyone as soon as a feature request is posted, there are priorities to handle. This feature is probably important for you, but it's not for 95% of SKP users, and it will come anyway.
It's "funny" how people think they (out of thousands of other users) have full control on a developer's life (yes developers have a life) just because they paid 2 euros. If that's what you expected, give me your order number and I will be pleased to refund it.

That being said... this feature is already implemented for some languages (Korean, Russian, Ukrainian) and needs to be expanded to other languages. The reason why it's not done yet is that I would actually preferred to implement a popup keyboard (like there is with the soft keyboard), which is maybe more user-friendly than multitap when there are several choices (for instance é è ë ê in French). However this is more complex to implement than it seems, and it would lead to inconsistencies between languages (some would have a popup, some would have multitap), so I think I will just go for the multitap way, like it's done in AnySoftKeyboard.