translationKeyboard API

Warning

This API endpoint is no longer available. Please try Keyman instead.

Description

The web component of translationKeyboard allows people to create and modify keyboard layouts that can then be downloaded to Android devices using the translationKeyboard mobile app. Once downloaded, these layouts can be used on the device or shared with others.

The tK API endpoint provides access to these keyboard layouts and is used by the tK mobile app.

Please report any issues you may find into our translationKeyboardWeb Issue Queue.

Example

tK Catalog Endpoint

The translationKeyboard app has a unified API endpoint at http://tk.unfoldingword.org/api/v1/keyboard/.

Tip

The following is an example JSON snippet endpoint and may be used as a reference guide.

{
  "keyboards": [
    {
      "id": 5,
      "iso_language": "ne",
      "iso_region": "NP",
      "language_name": "नेपाली",
      "updated_at": 1414783592.712652
    },
    ...
  ],
  "updated_at": 1427386363.6908412
}

tK Keyboard Endpoint

Keyboard layouts may be accessed via their id (from the above catalog), like this: http://tk.unfoldingword.org/api/v1/keyboard/[id].

Tip

The following is an example JSON snippet endpoint and may be used as a reference guide.

{
  "keyboard_id": 5,
  "keyboard_name": "Devanagari",
  "created_at": 1414783592.712652,
  "updated_at": 1414783592.712652,
  "iso_region": "NP",
  "iso_language": "ne",
  "keyboard_variants": [
    {
      "name": "Devanagari Android 4 Row",
      "created_at": 1414783739.552225,
      "updated_at": 1414783739.552225,
      "key_position_rows": [
        {
          "key_position_columns": [
            {
              "percent_width": 1.0,
              "characters": [
                {
                  "modmask": 0,
                  "unicode": 2378
                },
                {
                  "modmask": 1,
                  "unicode": 2322
                }
              ]
            }
          ...
          ]
        ...
        ]
      ...
      ]
  ]
}