Japanese Flick Keyboard Support for Sailfish OS

How to Build

With Sailfish OS Build Engine

Requirements

• Sailfish OS SDK

Instructions

Please refer to the official tutorial and wiki for more information on how to build packages.

1. Launch Sailfish OS Build Engine from VirtualBox
2. Connect with ssh (ex. ssh -p 2222 -i ~/SailfishOS/vmshare/ssh/private_keys/engine/mersdk mersdk@localhost)
3. Change directory into the repo (ex. cd share/jolla-kbd-flick-jp .). /home/mersdk/share is a shared directory on the Sailfish OS Build Engine which provides access to the host file system
4. Build the package with mb2 build

With createrpm.sh (Build on Sailfish OS devices themselves)

Requirements

• Your Sailfish OS device with developer mode enabled

Instructions

1. Launch a Terminal
2. Refresh package information devel-su pkcon refresh
3. Install packages which are required for building devel-su pkcon install rpm-build make qt5-qmake
4. Clone the repo (ex. git clone https://github.com/sfos-ja/jolla-kbd-flick-jp.git)
5. Change directory into the repo (ex. cd jolla-kbd-flick-jp)
6. Build the package with ./createrpm.sh

After build

Then rpm package will be deployed in RPMS directory.

If you want to install the keyboard on Sailfish OS devices, You can easily transfer the package with scp (ex. scp RPMS/jolla-kbd-flick-jp-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm [email protected]:~/Downloads/). NOTE: to use this command, you need to enable the developer mode on your Sailfish OS phone and connect your phone with a USB cable to your computer and select Developer Mode as the connection mode.