Overview of http://www.mesinput.com/

2. MesInput, what users say* in
Nokia Store…
*) A selective subset of comments, http://store.ovi.com/content/161100/re

3. MesInput
MesInput is a full solution for personalized text entry with a possibility to
share your keyboards with your friends
MesInput consists of:
• a web solution at http://www.mesinput.com/
• a device side client for N9 available in the Nokia Store at
http://store.ovi.com/content/161100
An add-on for the Maliit text input solution (see http://maliit.org/)
• Maliit is the Nokia copyrighted input method solution – suitable for large
variety of devices, from slate and tablet form factors to smart phones

4. MesInput, contd.
Statistics
• 5000 downloads for the application
• 10000+ keyboard layouts downloaded
• 300+ keyboard layouts submitted to the service
• 10+ power users contributing to the service with advanced custom
designs in XML (other possibility is with the predefined layouts)
• 4/5 star app in the Nokia Store
Posts from external bloggers
• MesInput mentioned as one of the "10 apps to have for N9"
http://www.mobili.no/apps/meego/10-apps-du-bor-ha-pa-nokia-n9/
• MesInput mentioned as one of the "20 must have apps for N9“
http://thehandheldblog.com/2011/11/18/top-apps-nokia-n9/

5. MesInput in Action

6. Main page – ’Recently used keyboards’ updated concurrently as download in device side has

7. Search and results

8. Viewing a keyboard

9. Forking an existing keyboard

10. Editing an empty keyboard

11. Invoking device side application (running in emulator/target HW)

12. Iterating through all the layouts available in the service

13. Invoking text entry after fetching a new keyboard – normal keyboard appears

14. Horizontal flick gesture on top of the keyboard changes to the newly downloaded keyboar

15. Writing with the new keyboard

16. Implementation
Device side client, Qt C++
Server side implementation
• Django/Python/JQuery
• REST APIs with JSON replies
• Hosted on the Google App Engine
Client code available at https://github.com/otso/MesInput - server side code
not released yet

17. Summary
MesInput boosts the device keyboard software with an online
service, harvesting unique virtual keyboard designs from the end
users.