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diff --git a/content/posts/enable-swype-aosp-keyboard.md b/content/posts/enable-swype-aosp-keyboard.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..788278a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/enable-swype-aosp-keyboard.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Enabling Swype on the AOSP keyboard" +date: 2021-01-31T14:42:00 +tags: ["Android", "Linux", "Snippets", "Software"] +--- + +I've recently changed my phone to a Pixel 4, one of the reasons for this was to have as much of an open source device as possible. Naturally my operating system of choice was [LineageOS 17](https://lineageos.org/). + +With this however, the included AOSP keyboard will not support gesture inputs without a proprietary Google library. To get this working, you'll first want to download the [Pico package of Open GApps](https://opengapps.org/) for your phone, I'm using ARM64 architecture for my Pixel 4 device however yours may be different. + +Once downloaded, extract your archive: +``` +unzip open_gapps-arm64-9.0-pico-20210127.zip +``` + +Now move to the directory containing the library and extract that: +``` +cd Optional +tar --lzip -xf swypelibs-lib-arm64.tar.lz +cd swypelibs-lib-arm64/common/lib64 +ls +``` + +Here, you should now have `libjni-latinimegoogle.so`. With this, you want to push this library to your phone. +Once connected via ADB (and with root access enabled in the debugging menu), do the following: +``` +adb devices +adb root +adb remount +adb push libjni_latinimegoogle.so /system/lib64/ +adb unroot +adb reboot +``` + +Once rebooted, browse to: +``` +Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual Keyboard > Android Keyboard (AOSP) > Gesture Typing > Enable gesture typing +``` + +And you should be done.
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