- Thank you for trying out Titanboard! There are a few things in this program that can - make your typing experience better. First, set up your settings to fit what you want: + Thank you for trying out Titanboard! This keyboard program is designed to make your + experience with physical keyboards as pleasant and powerful as possible. It was designed + to be intuitive, and work exactly as you would expect it to. This means that pressing + any key, with or without modifiers like Alt or Shift, will show the corresponding + character on the screen. For example, on the Unihertz Titan, pressing R will input + "r", pressing Alt+R will input "-", Shift+R will input + "R". Whatever you see on your physical keyboard will show up on the screen. +
++ However, on most physical keyboard devices, this makes it very hard to input characters + which aren't on it. For example, on the Unihertz Titan, it isn't possible to + input the "&" symbol. The stock keyboard application solves this by using + an additional visual keyboard interface, but I think that misses the point. Instead, + Titanboard allows every symbol on the physical keyboard, even those with modifiers, to + have extra symbols. These are accessed by cycling. +
++ Cycling is basically a method for accessing the extra symbols under a given key. By + default, this method is long pressing a key. For example, on the Unihertz Titan, the + ) key (Alt+Y) has four symbols: ")", ">", "]", + "}". The first is inputted by simply pressing Alt, then Y (or Alt and Y). The + rest can be accessed by pressing Alt (or holding), then pressing and holding Y. This + will start switching through the aforementioned characters at the rate specified in the + preferences (by default 500 ms). +
++ There is an alternate cycling method which can be enabled under the "Cycle symbols + by consecutively pressing a key" setting in the preferences. This is + self-explanatory. Instead of long pressing like in the aforementioned example, you + instead quickly press the key several times. So, if I want to input "]", I + press Alt, then I press Y three times. This is very good for fast typing. +
++ If you tried the above, you might have noticed that the Alt or Shift keys can be + "locked" (or latched). This is the same behaviour like in regular visual + keyboards Android. Simply put, pressing a modifier key once puts it into a latched + state, which means the next key pressed will be uppercased or be the alternative symbol. + You can also lock a modifier key by pressing it twice in a quick fashion. Otherwise, + modifier keys work as expected.
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