It’s working great. I only can’t get multi language and the emoji dictionary to work. The help page says I need to change the spell checker in the android settings but I can’t find that option 🤔
actually if you want a customizable keyboard, Samsung one probably has no competition
but then it’s proprietary and the default english spell checker uses grammarly, which is widely considered a keylogger…
Tried it out and it has decent customization although Multiling O still provides more options. That said I think I will give it a shot and maybe finally move to Samsung keyboard since its dictionary and swipe are much better, plus it has some cool features like underlined spelling mistakes, emoji search and translate straight from keyboard.
Edit: Think I have found a deal breaker. My language has diacritics so I need a modifier key to quickly type without holding a key and choosing letter from pop up. There is an option using ALT as modifier, but when it is enabled, keyboard layout is not the standard one where you get like a V shape, second row keys are right under first row and it throws off my typing.
It’s additional because the recommended gesture typing libraries (I believe it’s one made by Google?) are closed-source, so an open-source project wouldn’t be able to share them within the repository or release and keep the open-source label because a component would be closed-source.
There are open-source gesture typing libraries out there but they’re such a bother to set up I just accept the proprietary software. In HeliBoard it took me a few moments to have it going.
Here’s a link to the open board github where I downloaded it. If you don’t want to take my word for it you can find it linked on heliboard github, the link just didn’t get copied from their readme.
It should be available in the main F-Droid repo. It has been only on IzzyOnDroid for a while, but I can already see version 1.2 on the official F-Droid repo too.
I’ll give it a shot. I have always been a big fan of swipe to text. But lately the autocorrect options have been shit anyway. I don’t know if its Google to blame or if its Motorola that has too small of a side bezel causing my palms to create a fake swipe.
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I am surprised at how much more responsive my phone is now. GBoard wad 495 MiB, HeliBoard is nearly 34 MiB. (No idea how much was loaded into RAM.)
Edit: I am aware of the cognitive bias of newness. My phone has 3 GiB of RAM, so it is possible there was a real impact.
So it’s open-source and has even more than Gboard 😁
It’s working great. I only can’t get multi language and the emoji dictionary to work. The help page says I need to change the spell checker in the android settings but I can’t find that option 🤔
If you just want a keyboard with no dictionary then… -> simple keyboard
Looks good although not sure it will replace Multiling O Keyboard for me. That keyboard still seems to have unparalleled layout customization options.
Multilingo is sooo damn customizable. It’s kinda bonkers
actually if you want a customizable keyboard, Samsung one probably has no competition
but then it’s proprietary and the default english spell checker uses grammarly, which is widely considered a keylogger…
That’s with Keys Cafe, right? Have seen that module, but have never looked into it much. Will check it out later.
yeah
Tried it out and it has decent customization although Multiling O still provides more options. That said I think I will give it a shot and maybe finally move to Samsung keyboard since its dictionary and swipe are much better, plus it has some cool features like underlined spelling mistakes, emoji search and translate straight from keyboard.
Edit: Think I have found a deal breaker. My language has diacritics so I need a modifier key to quickly type without holding a key and choosing letter from pop up. There is an option using ALT as modifier, but when it is enabled, keyboard layout is not the standard one where you get like a V shape, second row keys are right under first row and it throws off my typing.
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It’s additional because the recommended gesture typing libraries (I believe it’s one made by Google?) are closed-source, so an open-source project wouldn’t be able to share them within the repository or release and keep the open-source label because a component would be closed-source.
There are open-source gesture typing libraries out there but they’re such a bother to set up I just accept the proprietary software. In HeliBoard it took me a few moments to have it going.
It’s great, but how can I install the glide library? I can’t see any link…
Here’s a link to the open board github where I downloaded it. If you don’t want to take my word for it you can find it linked on heliboard github, the link just didn’t get copied from their readme.
Thanks!
Nice! Downloaded and configured. Looks like a great gboard replacement
HOOOOOOB
astank
My thoughts exactly
Just updated my f Droid, is heliboard not up now? Can’t find it via search.
Edit, had to update repositories too. My bad!
It should be available in the main F-Droid repo. It has been only on IzzyOnDroid for a while, but I can already see version 1.2 on the official F-Droid repo too.
I’ll give it a shot. I have always been a big fan of swipe to text. But lately the autocorrect options have been shit anyway. I don’t know if its Google to blame or if its Motorola that has too small of a side bezel causing my palms to create a fake swipe.
yes it is! Like am i insane to think that 1.5mb is absolutely worth it>
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what?
HOLO LIFE
I agree. Especially as the app is already 20 MB in size… 1.5MB wouldn’t make much difference IMO.
and the shittiest of the shittiest phones have like 16gb with sd expansion…
I only miss the smiley button
We’re in 2024 and you don’t think 1.5mb extra package size is worth it for better polish and a user experience?
Yeah, what the hell lol
Thank you for recommending this. Gesture typing works great with the added library, and text suggestions are working nicely too!