Scribe-iOS 1.1.0

⌨️ New Keyboards

• Adds Russian, French, Portuguese and Swedish keyboards.

✨ New Features

• Hold-to-select functionality for symbol keys.
• The keyboard keys are capitalized if the user deletes at the start of the command bar.
• Removes noun-gender annotation for given names to avoid misgendering people.
• Users are now able to pass upper-case arguments to translate and conjugate.

🗃️ Data Added

• French (New): 15,710 nouns, 1,241 verbs (mostly infinitives), 67,609 translations
• German: 401 nouns, 78 verbs, corrected many prepositions
• Portuguese (New): 4,530 nouns, 188 verbs, 67,609 translations
• Russian (New): 194,389 nouns, 11 verbs, 12 prepositions, 67,609 translations
• Spanish: 180 nouns, 22 verbs
• Swedish (New): 41,102 nouns, 4,133 verbs, 67,609 translations

🎨 Design Changes

• Improves the display of the caps lock key by making its background the key pressed color.
• Updates the App Store images and videos.
• Scribe command titles are now in the keyboard language for a more immersive experience.
• Translate for Russian switches to an English keyboard.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• German keyboards had the dollar sign shown on the number keys instead of the euro sign.
• iPads had a semicolon key that also had apostrophes.
• Hold-to-select keys wouldn't return to their original color.
• The keyboard wouldn't always be letter keys when switched to.
• The double space period shortcut wasn't possible after certain special characters and numbers.
• More than one singular gender wasn't being assigned to German nouns in the formatting process.

♻️ Code Refactoring

• Combines all the space bar logic into one and renames the key based on the keyboard.
• Combines all conjugation logic into one function that is accessed by each button press case.
• Combines all noun annotation logic into one function that accessed by child functions.

Scribe-iOS 1.0.1

✨ New Features

• Adds comma-space to letter keys functionality.
• Adds question mark and exclamation point followed by space to capital letter keys functionality.

🎨 Design Changes

• Fixes the display of the system header in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white text was hard to read.
• Fixes the display of the scroll bar in the app when the user is in dark mode, as the white bar wasn't visually appealing.
• The keyboard has been made taller for iPhones to make the buttons larger vertically.
• More space has been added around the buttons to make them better resemble system keyboard spacing.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixes an issue where the select keyboard button wouldn't be able to be long held after an initial button is pressed.
• Fixes an issue where canceling a command would cause the command bar to read "Not in directory" on a subsequent command.
• Fixes an issue where the double space period shortcut is triggered without intent.

♻️ Code Refactoring

• The hold-to-select character functions are now combined into one.

Scribe-iOS 1.0.0

MVP release of Scribe - Language Keyboards

🚀 Deployment

• Releasing for iPhone and iPad.

⌨️ Keyboards

• Keyboards for German and Spanish.

✨ Features

• Keyboard extensions that can be used in any app.
• Annotation of words in the command bar including the genders of nouns and cases that follow prepositions.
• Basic English to keyboard language translations.
• Querying the plurals of nouns.
• Conjugations of verbs.

🗃️ Data

• Wikidata WDQS queries saved so that data can be updated before releases.
• Data formatting done via Python scripts.
• Data saved in JSON files in app to allow for quick access that doesn't require an internet connection.
• Nouns, verbs and prepositions (where applicable).
• Translations of English words via 🤗 Transformers.
• Adds baseline noun, verb, translation and preposition data for the new keyboards.
  • German: 27K+ nouns, 3K+ verbs, 65K+ translations, 190 prepositions
  • Spanish: 8K+ nouns, 65 verbs, 65K+ translations

🎨 Design

• The Scribe key and command bar where Scribe commands are triggered.
• 3x2 conjugation tables from which conjugations can be selected in the Conjugate command.
• The return key is colored Scribe blue when commands are being triggered to let the user know that that is what they need to press to finish the command.
• Dark mode compatibility.