Testing Avro Keyboard for Firefox OS

Avro Phonetic, an input method for Bangla is planned to be implemented to Firefox OS. Before I send my code for review to the Gaia Team, I wish my code to get reviewed and by the local community. So if you have a Firefox OS Device, or a computer running Linux or Mac OS, you can test it. (I am a noob on Windows)

Getting the source

If you are not familiar with Git or don’t want to download about ~1GB of data with full history from age of dinosaurs, simply download this ZIP Archive.

If you are more of Git Geek and want to do it the Git way, clone my repository and switch to the BanglaAvroPhoneticIME branch.

git clone https://github.com/aniruddha-adhikary/gaia.git
git checkout BanglaAvroPhoneticIME

Building

Now, it’s time to build Gaia! If you want to test in a Simulator (aka don’t own a device or don’t want to try on a device), run this command in the “gaia” directory.

GAIA_KEYBOARD_LAYOUTS=en,'bn-Avro' make

Then download the latestDesktop Simulator (not the Firefox Add-on!) from here for your operating system and use the profile directory generated inside the gaia directory as your profile.

If you want to try on your device, make sure remote debugging is switched on, on your device. Go to Settings > Device Information > More Information > Developers and check on “Remote Debugging”. Then connect your device to your PC via USB and run this command.

GAIA_KEYBOARD_LAYOUTS=en,'bn-Avro' make reset-gaia

Using Avro Phonetic