Discussion of Android version

[andrewtavis]

This issue is to discuss the eventual Android version of Scribe.

The best way to do a custom keyboard for Android seems to be using Java or Kotlin, with the latter being the preferred language for such tasks based on Google's shift to Kotlin-first.

The following are useful references:

• https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html
• https://github.com/DonBrody/Android-CustomKeyboard
• https://github.com/dba-commons/lisuKeyboardAndroid
  • https://github.com/dba-commons/lisukeyboard (can be used for reference for the above Android keyboard)
• https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Keyboard

Before work can begin, all language logic for Scribe-iOS should be shifted over to a common repository that Scribe-Android can also reference. This requirement corresponds to Scribe-iOS issue #10.

[andrewtavis]

The Discussions can also be used to plan :)

[andrewtavis]

Looking into either Gryphon or SwiftKotlin would be a good way of going about this. This at least would allow for the baseline files to be converted.

[andrewtavis]

Other helpful URLs for conversion: http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/ and http://angelolloqui.com/blog/38-Swift-vs-Kotlin-for-real-iOS-Android-apps.

[andrewtavis]

Closing this as it's not necessary post the completion of #17 and #10.