GhanaKey - Keyboard for Ghana

Keteke LLC

About this app

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Version 4.8 and 4.9 update problem:
On some phones the update process of Ghanakey doesn't go to the phone's settings to enable Ghanakey. To overcome this you should go to the phone's settings and find the keyboards' list (on a Samsung phone it's at Settings/General management/Keyboard list and default).
Here enable Ghanakey and this will make it appear as selectable on the keyboards' list. Then you can continue with Ganakey 4.8 setup and set Ghanakey as default.
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This is a keyboard for the written languages in Ghana. There are 11 government assisted languages in Ghana.

Features:

You can select different keyboard themes in Ghanakey :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4xOWIAohuo

You can use different skin color variations of people emoji in Ghanakey· See it here how:
https://youtu.be/Ntig2Uw9efc

You can change the keyboard style to arrange all the keys to one side (left or right) if you often type with one thumb only. See the video how to do it:
https://youtu.be/ohaK-DVGRqk

You can change the keyboard's height in settings. Go to settings/keyboard themes then tap the 3 dots on the upper right and select tweaks. On the following page select keys height factor in portrait mode or landscape mode. Give a smaller number than 1 for example 0.9


- sending images as stickers
- glide typing
- power saving
- Word suggestion
You can adjust the aggressiveness of the suggestions in settings.
- Next word prediction
- Editable abbreviation dictionary
You can add your often used sentences with abbreviations so you don't have to type the whole sentence again.
- Suggestions
It learns your words and will offer it after some time.
- Guided setup
- Smiley keyboard
- Permissions
Read contacts - to suggest the contact names while typing,
Read-write SD card - to save/restore your dictionary
- On the keyboard there are more Ghanaian characters
when you long press a key
- Strech gesture for easier two thumb writing (see the video)

- This app is based on AnySoftKeyboard

Known Issue
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- Most of the Ghanaian characters including capital letters are not supported by Android 4.2. It is fixed with the release of Android 4.3 and later.

Ratings and reviews

This app was terrific until they updated it with a tiny space bar making it difficult for those of us with big thumb. I'll be back to give a 5 star if that's fixed I'm back again after 2 years! The app has a very annoying and destructive red button after the recent update. I clicked on it and a covid website was opened up. Please check that

Long press on the Space Bar brings up the menu to turn on GhanaKey app. But another long press does not give the option to turn it off. I can only choose my system keypad through my phone Settings. That's very unfair. If the intent is to force me to stick to GhanaKey permanently, that won't work. This is because GhanaKey has several disadvantages, including being clumsy. You can improve upon it in subsequent releases and updates. Thank you.

GhanaKey - Keyboard is very fast and the autocorrect is super accurate but the typing speed could be improved for most newer faster 3D enabled Android Go, Android 12, Android, 13, Android 14, Android 15 devices. The emoji settings could be improved and updated too. Also it is missing a dedicated emoji button it shows one random emoji when Gboard, Swiftkey and other similar Android keyboard apps have a full emoji icon list.

What's new

Complying with Google's target API 33 requirement.