iPad layouts more reflective of system keyboards

[andrewtavis]

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Description

This issue at time of writing is not a priority, but could be later. The focus is making the iPad version of Scribe more reflective of the system keyboard layout. iPad support was not the key focus for Scribe at launch, so the keyboards generally look like larger versions of iPhone keyboards. It would be best if multiple layouts of iPad keyboards could be made that reflect having the numbers on the top row always, as well as other the system keyboard layout characteristics.

[andrewtavis]

These changes would be done in the InterfaceVariables files for each keyboard, with the conditions within KeyboardsBase/KeyboardKeys.swift then being used to adapt the key widths.

[neisenlo]

Would this be desired for all iPads or would only the larger models want an additional row of keys?

[andrewtavis]

Hey @neisenlo! 👋 I’d agree that only the larger models should have an extra row of keys :) A basic thing we could do is edit the key sizes now to get them to be more reflective of the system keyboards (by this I mean that some keys should be wider than they are now). After this we could do a simple boolean check of screen dimensions to determine if another row would be possible. We could add the number keys into the interface variable files and just ignore them if the screen isn’t big enough?

Let me know if this is something you’d be interested in working on. Would be happy to assign and could also draw your attention to some of the files you’d be working with 😊

[neisenlo]

I'd definitely be willing to give it a shot! Would you recommend hardcoding the changes into each letterKeysPad in the InterfaceVariables file first?

[andrewtavis]

Assigning you so people know 😊 I’d say a first thing to do as prep could even be adding in the number keys and delete into the letterKeysPads and then changing the place where they’re called such that those keys are skipped? The row would be 1 to 0, -, = and backspace.