Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard
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Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard - Swarachakra is a logically ordered keyboard, found to be easy to use for newbies
" सारे जहाँ से अच्छा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा । हम बुलबुलें हैं इसकी, यह गुलिसताँ हमारा ।।" - मुहम्मद इक़बाल । If your device can display this sentence in Hindi perfectly, then your device supports Hindi and Swarachakra should also work well. If you do not see any text, or if some of the words are incorrect, Swarachakra may not work well.
Swarachakra Hindi (स्वरचक्र हिंदी) is a touch-screen keyboard for inputting text in Hindi. (For Marathi please use Swarachakra Marathi and for Konkani please use Swarachakra Konkani. Swarachakra is also available in Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Bengali and Tamil.) Swarachakra uses a logically ordered design based on the structure of Devanagari. Swarachakra displays the consonants sequenced according to the logical structure of Devanagari, phonetically grouped and arranged in a grid similar to those found in most school textbooks.
Typing with Swarachakra
In Devanagari, we frequently need to type a combination of a consonant ( ध ) and a matra ( ो ) like ध + ो = धो . When you touch a consonant, a chakra with combination of consonants and 10 frequent matras pops up ( धा, धि, धी, धु, धू, धे, धै, धो... ). The chakra gives a preview of the possible character combinations. To select a combination, you slide the stylus or finger towards it.
Typing conjuncts like क्रि, स्थ, च्य is particularly hard for most people. Swarachakra makes it easy. First tap on the first part of the combination and select the halant from the chakra ( स + ् ). Swarachakra then shows a preview of all possible conjuncts that begin with that consonant ( स + ् + त = स्त ; स + ् + थ = स्थ etc.). If you need to add a matra, select it from the new chakra like earlier ( स्था, स्थि, स्थी, स्थु, स्थू... ).
To type a rafar ( र्थ ), a rashtrachinha ( ट्र ) or a nukta ( ड़, ख़ ), first select the corresponding key from the right-most bottom keys, and then type as usual.
Complete vowels ( अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ ) appear in a separate chakra on the bottom right. The less used vowels and matras are next to it ( ऽ, ऑ, ृ, ऋ, ॄ, ॠ, ॆ, ॊ, ॅ, ॉ ). Numerals, symbols and rarely used characters appear on a shift. You could also switch to the QWERTY keypad temporarily to input English characters.
Installing Swarachakra
First, install Swarachakra Hindi by clicking the “Install” button above.
Next, you need to “enable” the keyboard. To enable, open “Settings”, select “Language and Input” and check the box in front of स्वरचक्र हिंदी (Swarachakra Hindi) in the “Keyboard and input methods” section.
Finally, click on the “Default” option in the “Keyboard and input methods” section, and select स्वरचक्र हिंदी (Swarachakra Hindi) as the default keyboard. (Sorry, but that’s how Android works)
NOTE: Swarachakra is designed for Android 4.0 (ICS) onwards. It does not work right now on older versions because they do not have Unicode support.
About Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard
Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard is a free app for Android published in the Telephony list of apps, part of Communications.
The company that develops Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard is Swarachakra Team, IDC, IIT Bombay. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0. This app was rated by 19 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.0.
To install Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2018-01-28 and was downloaded 2,371 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard as malware as malware if the download link to iit.android.swarachakra is broken.
How to install Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Swarachakra Hindi Keyboard will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
