Inscript Marathi Keyboard

A native Android system-level Marathi keyboard (IME) for Android 8+ (API 26).

Features

• English QWERTY layout
• Marathi InScript layout (IS 16350, Devanagari)
• Marathi transliteration (roman → Devanagari)
• Marathi dictionary with autocomplete suggestions
• Emoji picker driven by the full Unicode emoji dataset (3,700+ sequences) with search, swipeable categories, Recently Used, and skin-tone variants
• iOS-style visual design

Devanagari composition

The InScript keyboard auto-attaches dependent vowel signs (matras) to consonants:

• क + ि → कि
• क + ी → की
• क + ् + र → क्र (halant / conjuncts)
• त + ् + र → त्र
• क + ् + ष → क्ष
• ज + ् + ञ → ज्ञ

Vowel keys show independent vowels; after a consonant they become the matching matra (का, कि, की...).

Emoji data

The emoji gallery is generated from the official Unicode emoji data files (emoji-test.txt) and CLDR annotations, producing assets/emoji/emoji_data.json. Regenerate with tools/gen_emoji_data.py when Unicode releases new emoji.

Building

./gradlew assembleDebug

Install on a connected device with:

adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Tech

• Kotlin + Android Views (custom Canvas-drawn keyboard)
• Clean Architecture + MVVM
• AndroidX emoji2 (bundled Noto Color Emoji font) for modern emoji on older devices