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I'm building a clone of the official iPhone software keyboard for use as a base for 3rd party keyboards: https://github.com/archagon/tasty-imitation-keyboard

Instead of fixed images and positioning, it uses CoreGraphics and Autolayout, making it adaptable to portrait/landscape of any size. (It's really slow on device ATM, but hopefully that will be fixed shortly.)

In the end, I intend for it to have most of the looks and functionality of the existing iPhone keyboard (when possible) except for iOS8 suggestions. Release date for beta-ish 1 should optimistically be a week or two after the iOS8 release date.

Also, unrelated, I had an idea for a human-readable passphrase generator, in the vein of diceware, but I need to find a good algorithm for generating grammatical sentences and correctly conjugating verbs, etc. Also, I have yet to limit my wordlist to the most commonly used words. Right now, it's... silly: http://archagon.github.io/grammatical-passphrase-generator/

Possible future features: arbitrary length, rhyming schemes, other mnemonic features.

(Give it 30 seconds or so to load — everything is done in JS, including wordlist parsing.)



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