Enterprise Keyboard Manager

EMDK for Xamarin - 2.5

Overview

Enterprise Keyboard Manager controls the settings of Enterprise Keyboard, Zebra's soft input device that provides an efficient means of hand-inputting data into Zebra devices running Android. Building on the stock Android keyboard, Enterprise Keyboard adds programmable keys, switches quickly between languages and key layouts, and can scan data directly into an application.

Enterprise Keyboard also makes use of Android's Personal Dictionary for spelling suggestions and corrections, and permits customers and partners to populate the device with industry-specific terms to help improve the speed and accuracy of keyboard input. A Personal Dictionary can be populated and mass-deployed through Zebra's Mobility Extensions (MX) and StageNow tools. Learn more about the Personal Dictionary.

Also see the Enterprise Keyboard User Guide.

Main Functionality

Enable and Disable:

  • Auto-capitalization
  • Auto-correction
  • Blocking of Offensive Words
  • Keypress Vibration, Sound and Pop-up
  • Suggest Corrections, Personalized Terms and Contacts
  • Display of Scan Tab and Voice Input Key
  • "Flick" to input shift/long-press characters

Unique Features:

  • Direct scanning of barcodes
  • Swipe to switch keyboard layouts
  • Easily switch between calculator and phone layouts
  • Single-tap to switch languages
  • Remap keys to create custom layouts
  • Color scheme easily readable indoors and out
  • Auto-hide suggestion bar for optimal screen usage

Included languages:

  • English (UK)
  • English (US)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Russian

About Tab-key Navigation

The Enterprise Keyboard Tab key is designed to move the cursor or UI focus from one text field or UI component to the next. Zebra recommends that apps be built to use the Tab key to navigate in this way. On devices with versions prior to MX 6.2 and/or Enterprise Keyboard 1.3, the Tab key might not move the cursor as expected. For help with native-app navigation, please refer to the Android Tab-key navigation section of the Android developer docs.

Auto-capitalization Enable/Disable

Controls whether to capitalize the first word of each sentence following a period.

Parm Name: AutoCapitalization

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to perform Auto-capitalization.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Auto-capitalization feature.

MX: 6.0+

Auto-correction Enable/Disable

Controls whether to allow automatic replacement of misspelled words with those found in the Add-on and Personal dictionaries when suggestion for one or more dictionaries is enabled. Suggested replacements are inserted by pressing the spacebar.

Parm Name: AutoCorrection

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to perform Auto-correction on words spelled incorrectly.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Auto-correction feature.

MX: 6.0+

Block Offensive Words Enable/Disable

Controls whether to the display as suggested spelling corrections words that might be deemed offensive or insensitive as determined by external standards of decency.

Parm Name: BlockOffensiveWords

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Activates Google's routines for blocking offensive words as spelling suggestions.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Block Offensive Words feature, allowing all spelling suggestions to be shown.

MX: 6.0+

Double-Space Period Enable/Disable

Controls whether to automatically insert a period and space when double-tapping the spacebar.

Parm Name: DoubleSpacePeriod

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to perform Double-Space Period function.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Double-Space Period function.

MX: 6.0+

Flick Enable/Disable

Controls whether a finger "flick" can be used to input characters otherwise accessible by using the shift key or a long-press.

Parm Name: Flick

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.1+

1 Turn on Enables a finger flick to input alternate characters.

MX: 6.1+

2 Turn off Disables finger flick for character input.

MX: 6.1+

Key Long-Press Delay Mode

Controls whether to specify the length of time (in ms) a key must be held down before being considered a long-press (default = 300ms), or to leave the setting unchanged. When "Specify duration" is selected, the long-press delay is set using the "KeyLongPressDelay" parm.

Parm Name: KeyLongPressDelayMode

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change A null value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Specify duration Enables specification of the length of time (in ms) that a key must be held before being considered a long press.

MX: 6.0+

Key Long-Press Delay

Controls the length of time (in ms) a key must be held down before being considered a long-press (default = 300ms).

Parm input rules:

  • Accepts an integer between 100 and 700 (ms)

Shown if: Key Long-Press Delay Mode is set to "Specify duration"

Parm Name: KeyLongPressDelay

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Keypress Sound Volume Mode

Controls whether to specify the sound volume (as a percentage of the maximum) or to accept the System setting (default).

Parm Name: KeypressSoundVolumeMode

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change A null value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Specify volume Enables keypress sound volume (as a percentage of the maximum) to be specified.

MX: 6.0+

2 System default Accepts the System setting for the keypress sound volume.

MX: 6.0+

Set Keypress Sound Volume

Allows the sound volume for each keypress to be speficied as a percentage of the maximum.

Parm input rules:

  • Accepts an integer between 0 and 100 (%)

Shown if: Keypress Sound Volume Mode is set to "Specify duration"

Parm Name: KeypressSoundVolume

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Keypress Vibration Duration Mode

Controls whether to specify the length of time (in ms) to operate device vibration when a key is pressed or to accept the System setting.

Parm Name: KeypressVibrationDurationMode

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change A null value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Specify duration Enables a vibration duration (in ms) to be specified for each keypress.

MX: 6.0+

2 System default Accepts the System setting for the keypress vibration duration.

MX: 6.0+

Next Word Suggestions Enable/Disable

Controls whether to Enterprise Keyboard will suggest possible next words based on the word being typed. This feature is sometimes referred to as "Predictive text."

Parm Name: NextWordSuggestions

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to suggest the next word to be entered based on the most recent word entered.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the suggestion of the next word to be entered based on the most recent word entered.

MX: 6.0+

Keypress Vibration Duration

Used to specify the length of time (from 0 to 100ms) that the device will vibrate to indicate that a key has been pressed (default = 0ms).

Parm input rules:

  • Accepts an integer between 0 and 100

Shown if: Keypress Vibration Duration Mode is set to "Specify duration"

Parm Name: KeypressVibrationDuration

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Numeric Layout Mode

Permits selection of the numeric keypad layout.

Parm Name: NumericLayoutMode

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.1+

1 Telephone mode Enables Telephone keypad mode.

MX: 6.1+

2 Calculator mode Enables Calculator keypad mode.

MX: 6.1+

Personalized Suggestions Enable/Disable

Controls whether Enterprise Keyboard will suggest words and terms that have been previously entered and stored in the Personal Dictionary. Suggested words will appear as spelling corrections for words as they are being typed. Enable Auto-correction to accept suggested words by pressing the space bar.

Parm Name: PersonalizedSuggestions

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to display personalized spelling suggestions from the Personal Dictionary.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables suggestions for spelling corrections from the Personal Dictionary.

MX: 6.0+

Pop-up On Keypress Enable/Disable

Controls whether a "big character bubble" will pop up when a key on the Enteprise Keyboard is pressed.

Parm Name: PopupOnKeypress

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Popup On Keypress feature.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Popup On Keypress feature.

MX: 6.0+

Show Correction Suggestions Enable/Disable

Controls whether Enterprise Keyboard will display spelling correction suggestions for words being typed. Enable Auto-correction to accept suggested words by pressing the space bar.

Parm Name: ShowCorrectionSuggestions

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to suggest words to replace misspelled or incomplete words as they are typed.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Prevents Enterprise Keyboard from suggesting spelling corrections.

MX: 6.0+

Show Scan Tab Enable/Disable

Controls whether to display the Scan Tab among the other keyboard layout tabs. The Scan Tab displays the scanner controls for collecting barcode data. Scanning from within Enterprise Keyboard requires the DataWedge service to be enabled on the device.

Note: The Scan Tab is disabled whenever an app that uses the scanner is running.

Parm Name: ShowScanTab

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Shows the Scan Tab for activating the device scanner.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Hides the Scan Tab.

MX: 6.0+

Sound On Keypress Enable/Disable

Controls whether to play a sound when a key is pressed. To control volume of Keypress sound, see Keypress Sound Volume.

Parm Name: SoundOnKeypress

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Sound On Keypress feature.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the Sound On Keypress feature.

MX: 6.0+

Suggest Contact Names Enable/Disable

Controls whether to automatically display contacts from the device contact list when typing names. This feature works only with specific field types.

Parm Name: SuggestContactNames

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables Enterprise Keyboard to suggest contact names from contacts stored on the device as they're being typed.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables the suggestion of contact names from contacts stored on the device as they're being typed.

MX: 6.0+

Vibrate On Keypress Enable/Disable

Controls whether to activate device vibration (haptic feedback) when a key is pressed. To control the length of time the device will vibrate, see Keypress Vibration Duration.

Shown if: Vibrate on Keypress is set to "Enable"

Parm Name: VibrateOnKeypress

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Enables vibration (haptic feedback) when a key is pressed.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Disables vibration (haptic feedback) when a key is pressed.

MX: 6.0+

Voice Input Key Enable/Disable

Controls whether to display the voice input key, which contains a microphone icon. When enabled, will display a key for allowing Enterprise Keyboard to accept spoken input using the device microphone. This feature is visible on GMS-enabled devices only.

Parm Name: VoiceInputKey

Option Name Description Requires
0 Do not change This value (or the absence of this parm from the XML) will cause no change to Enterprise Keyboard settings; any previously selected setting will be retained.

MX: 6.0+

1 Turn on Causes the Voice Input Key (mic) to be shown.

MX: 6.0+

2 Turn off Hides the Voice Input Key (mic).

MX: 6.0+

Remap Numeric Key P1

Used to specify a character, UNICODE value or EMOJI selection panel for substitution with the default key on the Numeric Keypad Row 1, Column 1. If this field is left blank, no change will be made and any previously selected value will be retained.

Parm input rules:

  • A string of between 0 and 8 characters
  • A UNICODE value corresponding to the desired key
  • The actual character to be substituted

Parm Name: RemapNumericP1

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Remap Numeric Key P2

Used to specify a character, UNICODE value or EMOJI selection panel for substitution with the default key on the Numeric Keypad Row 2, Column 1. If this field is left blank, no change will be made and any previously selected value will be retained.

Parm input rules:

  • A string of between 0 and 8 characters
  • A UNICODE value corresponding to the desired key
  • The actual character to be substituted

Parm Name: RemapNumericP2

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Remap Numeric Key P3

Used to specify a character, UNICODE value or EMOJI selection panel for substitution with the default key on the Numeric Keypad Row 3, Column 1. If this field is left blank, no change will be made and any previously selected value will be retained.

Parm input rules:

  • A string of between 0 and 8 characters
  • A UNICODE value corresponding to the desired key
  • The actual character to be substituted

Parm Name: RemapNumericP3

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Remap Numeric Key P4

Used to specify a character, UNICODE value or EMOJI selection panel for substitution with the default key on the Numeric Keypad Row 4, Column 1. If this field is left blank, no change will be made and any previously selected value will be retained.

Parm input rules:

  • A string of between 0 and 8 characters
  • A UNICODE value corresponding to the desired key
  • The actual character to be substituted

Parm Name: RemapNumericP4

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+

Remap Alpha Key P1

Used to specify a character, UNICODE value or EMOJI selection panel for substitution with the default key on the Numeric Keypad Row 4, Column 1. If this field is left blank, no change will be made and any previously selected value will be retained.

Parm input rules:

  • A string of between 0 and 8 characters
  • A UNICODE value corresponding to the desired key
  • The actual character to be substituted

Parm Name: RemapAlphaP1

Requires:

  • MX: 6.0+