But since about year ago I am working on projects for mobile platforms (Android and iOS) and naturally became a Mac OSX user. To make my life with OSX to be the same comfortable as with Windows, I needed to find several tools and features, which replace my "lovely" windows analogs.
One of them is custom keyboard layout.
I am a Russian speaker living in Israel where I use to use English-Hebrew keyboard. For typing in Russian I use Russian phonetic keyboard layout available from this site: http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm.
Mac OSX has built-in Russian phonetic keyboard, but the layout is slightly different. Sounds like there is not a big deal to learn new layout, but if I switch between Windows and Mac, it become annoying to adjust my mind for layout differences.
Fortunately, there is a way to customise keyboard layout on Mac OSX using "Ukelele" software.
Using Ukelele I took built-in Russian phonetic keyboard layout and changed several keys to make it the same as on windows.
Saved "Russian - phonetic - ZH.keylayout" and "Russian - phonetic - ZH.icns" files into "/Library/Keyboard Layouts", and was able to select it from "System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources"
Vualah! My OSX word is friendly for me!
I am happy to share it with you, please download my custom Russian keyboard layout from here: http://1drv.ms/1mH5NTf
