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title: Introducing Keyman Developer
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## Welcome to Keyman Developer
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Keyman Developer allows you to create your own keyboard layouts for use
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on the Keyman platform. Keyman is a multi-platform input method solution
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that runs on Windows, macOS, the web, mobile web, iOS and Android and
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Linux.
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There are two core applications included in Keyman Developer: the Keyman
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Developer IDE (formerly called TIKE), and the command line compiler kmc.
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Watch a video that highlights some of the Keyman Developer 14.0 features (57:23)
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:<img class="video-thumbnail" data-video="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kwhgx_eX4Es" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/kwhgx_eX4Es/maxresdefault.jpg" width="600px" alt="Keyman Developer 14.0 Webinar">
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## Keyman Developer IDE
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The Keyman Developer IDE is a complete environment for designing,
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developing, testing, and packaging your keyboards for distribution. Some
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of the major features of Keyman Developer IDE are:
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- Keyboard Editor, for creating keyboards visually for all platforms
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- Touch Layout editor, for creating fluid touch layouts
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- Package Editor, for creating a package of keyboard, fonts and files for distribution (used on all platforms except web)
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- Lexical Model Editor, for creating predictive text models
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- Integrated compiler, to compile keyboards, packages and models
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- Fully interactive debugger for testing keyboards and models
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- Character Map, which supports viewing Unicode fonts under all Windows versions
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- On Screen Keyboard editor, for creating visual representations of keyboards
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- Projects, for managing keyboard and lexical model development projects large and small
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Source files (except images!) are normally written in UTF-8 format, so
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they can be opened with any text editor. However, the Keyman Developer
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IDE provides much tooling to simplify editing each of the types of
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files. The Keyman Developer IDE runs on Windows.
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## kmc, the command line compiler
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kmc, the command-line compiler, is a comprehensive tool that lets you
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compile keyboards, packages, models and projects from the command-line.
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