Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5
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I use a Bluetooth keyboard for my Nexus 5 and as long as it is in Ubuntu everything is fine. However, since it has a German layout, things get messy when you use it in anbox as there is only an English layout available.
So, here is what I did:
- Own a Ubuntu PC.
- Copy /home/phablet/anbox-data/android.img to your desktop system
- Mount the image (if you transferred it to your desktop's Download folder a simple double click might do the trick)
- Copy the content to an empty directory (lets call it newandroid_img)
- Go to newandroid_img/system/usr/keychars
- Delete all .kcm files except virtual.kcm
- Download the appropriate .kcm file from here and put it in the system/usr/keychars directory and rename it to Generic.kcm
- Do a "chown -R 100000:100000 newandroid_img
- Create a new image by "mksquashfs newandroid_img/* newandroid.img"
- Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/ on the phone.
- Reboot your phone into recovery mode
- Connect your phone via "adb shell"
- Go to /data/user-data/phablet/anbox-data/
- Do "mv android.img oldandroid.img" (Just in case)
- Do "mv newandroid.img android.img"
- Reboot
That should be it.
It could be that you can replace the images in a freshly rebooted system as well, but the revovery method appeared to be the safest to me.
Have fun with your äöüßs! (or çs if you feel like it
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nice! thanks for sharing. is there an adb push missing in your instructions?
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I didn't specify the way I copied the files. You can do it by adb push, or, as I did, copy to/from the Nexus' Download directory via drag-and-drop and shell commands.
Or did I miss something?
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ah, sure, either way, What I mean is, you explicitly mention
Copy /home/phablet/anbox-data/android.img to your desktop system
to tell people to get the img from the phone to the desktop, but I don's see a step when people should get it back onto the phone
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Thanks for the hint. I changed
- Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/
to
- Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/ on the phone.
That should make it clear.