Doing a google search will be more productive than asking me: I was
trying to avoid looking at those answers. To me, Dvorak is finger
muscle memory: if I have to tap away with one or two fingers, I'll do
just as well (and possibly better) with a Qwerty layout.

That said, "Hacker's Keyboard" on the Android Market worked well as an
onscreen Qwerty keyboard (better layout than the standard one on the
Asus). The docs on the market claim it supports Dvorak, but I
couldn't get even that to work and ended up finding a couple-weeks-old
comment from someone I took to be a developer that said they were
"thinking about adding Dvorak support." So I don't know what the
hell's going on there.

A couple notes: "Hacker's Keyboard" is designed for tablets, not
phones, and I think it requires another keyboard app that it's built
on top of.

2011/6/28 Felipe Barros Corrêa de Oliveira <felipeahura <at> gmail.com>:
> Giles, do you remember what solutions you've found for the onscreen
> keyboard? I will get my first android device next week, and I desperately
> need to change the keyboard to dvorak.
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Eee Pad has been rooted (not mine yet, I only got it 48 hours
>> ago). But custom mods aren't a possibility yet as the source to this
>> version of Android (3.0? 3.1?) hasn't even been released yet. But I'm
>> likely to be an early adopter when Cyanogen comes out for this thing
>> anyway, so thanks for the information!
>>
>>
>> On 25 June 2011 01:47, Aron van Ammers <aron <at> multitof.com> wrote:
>> > For my HTC Hero and iGo bluetooth keyboard, the steps were:
>> >
>> > 1. Root the device
>> > 2. Upgrade to custom ROM based on CyanogenMod (most are)
>> > 3. Replace system file for keyboard mapping. Mine was at
>> > /system/usr/keylayout.
>> >
>> > Happily typing dvorak now.
>> >
>> > Obviously this requires more than just changing a setting on your device,
>> > and I have no idea whether rooting the Eee pad is even possible. But if
>> it
>> > is, you can change practically anything.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Aron
>> >
>> > On 24 Jun 2011 21:53, "Giles Orr" <gilesorr <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I've just purchased an Asus Eee Pad Transformer with keyboard (a
>> > > lovely bit of kit). I'm wondering if anyone is aware of keyboard
>> > > re-mapping software for hardware (not on-screen) keyboards for
>> > > Android. I admit to not having done much searching, but the results
>> > > have been pretty disheartening so far. Among other things, the
>> > > results get all mashed up with on-screen keyboard layout stuff. Any
>> > > help appreciated.

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