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nimble0 / dotterel

Dotterel is a free, open source program that provides the ability to use stenographic input on the Android platform.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Very promising! Any glue to connect to the PC? #7

Open zenny opened 4 years ago

zenny commented 4 years ago

@nimble0 Thanks for developing this wonderful stuff. Thumbs up!

However, is there a glue that can help connect 'dotterel' running in a tablet be used as an input device to a PC running in the same network (either wired or wireless)? I prefer to use the tablet as second steno input device with plover to a PC running linux. Any hints?

There are two typical apps I came across 1. Remote Droid (https://github.com/omerjerk/RemoteDroid and unmaintained) 2. Remote Keyboard (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=oldplanets.com.wireboard&hl=en_US) which does not allow to use the third party layouts except it's own.

Cheers, and stay safe /z

nimble0 commented 3 years ago

Those applications are for controlling an Android device from another device, it sounds like you want something the over way around.

I don't think there's anyway you could do this currently.

I think emulating a Bluetooth keyboard would be the most straight-forward way for me to implement this but that does require Android 9. I've looked a little into this but I haven't got Android 9 on anything yet.

user202729 commented 3 years ago

(I know it's late but...)

The only way to have a remote keyboard without installing would be emulate a HID (USB) keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard.

If you can install something on the computer, why don't you just install Plover there?

Bluetooth keyboard requires Android 9 (or a rooted Android). There's the application "Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse" that claims to do that without root, but I haven't been able to use it.