k3lp

k3lp (/kɛlp/) is a mobile-first library designed to support parsing and utilizing Unicode Keyboard3 files. Keyboard3 is an enhanced and rewritten standard developed by The Unicode Consortium and officially released with CLDR 45. It offers an open and interoperable standard for declaring and sharing keyboard layouts. Although the standard has been available for some time, there is currently no ready-to-use open-source library to effectively utilize these files. This is where k3lp comes into play, aiming to provide an easy-to-use, multi-platform library written in Kotlin 2.0. The library includes all the necessary business logic for layout parsing and streamlining keyboard developers' workflows, however the actual user interface implementation is left to the library consumer. Initially targeting Android and iOS developers in need of keyboard layout logic and tested in the open-source FlorisBoard keyboard, this library is capable of running on all platforms where the JVM runs on or where Kotlin compiles to.