I switched from gboard yesterday, added the swipe lib… I wish there were a standard keyboard layout but other than that it’s 🔥. It needs emoji search though.
This is amazing. Switched from SwiftKey, it has much better customizability and I love how emojis are shown really large in the picker (a bit too large in fact, but much better than the teensy tiny ones in SwiftKey).
At this point I’d only wish for two things, and they’re both quite minor, and one slightly bigger thing:
(Super minor) Remove the language text on the spacebar if only one dictionary is enabled.
(Minor) Either allow scaling of emoji and kaomoji in the picker, or scale them down regardless. In fact Kaomoji break across lines looking kinda fucked due to how big they are.
(Probably bigger) A search field in the emoji picker
Looks awesome! Is a Chinese input method in the works, by any chance? I’m still using Swype & Dragon that has been removed from google play 5 years ago as there is so far no decent alternative, and especially not in the FOSS space.
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Unexpected Keyboard is still my go-to for termux
it’s still my go-to keyboard for everything
Suggestions?
none
So it’s open-source and has even more than Gboard 😁
I love it 🤩🤩
I switched from gboard yesterday, added the swipe lib… I wish there were a standard keyboard layout but other than that it’s 🔥. It needs emoji search though.
YES emoji search would be amazing!
You can add special emoji suggestion dictionary, so emojis come up in the top row as you type.
Lifesaver
How do you add a dictionary?
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard#faq--common-issues
I don’t really understand where to download that Swipe Lib. Can somebody give me a Pointer?
From the project’s GitHub page, this is the link: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/46fdf2b550035ca69299ce312fa158e7ade36967/app/src/main/jniLibs
(If you have a modern phone, you’ll want the arm64-v8a build)
Thanks :)
The keyboard settings will tell you which one you need when you go to add it also.
Huh, I had no idea OpenBoard was discontinued
This is amazing. Switched from SwiftKey, it has much better customizability and I love how emojis are shown really large in the picker (a bit too large in fact, but much better than the teensy tiny ones in SwiftKey).
At this point I’d only wish for two things, and they’re both quite minor, and one slightly bigger thing:
Emoji search is planned and for now, you can add additional dictionary for emoji suggestions in the top bar. Here’s how
Oh awesome! TY!
Thank you for recommending this. Gesture typing works great with the added library, and text suggestions are working nicely too!
Looks like a perfect board to migrate to…
Any plans to add Colemak layouts? I know I’m in the minority here, but its what I’m used to!
Edit: tapping on the language lets me add it! Perfect!
Thanks for sharing! Living the keyboard so far.
If there is anything I would change it would be to make the emoji view the default long press for enter and for it to scroll horizontally.
I partially miss the built in gif integration, but it’s really cool to have dual finger typing again.
Yeah, it’s silly, but I switch back to the default board to send a gif and then switch back.
Definitely check out the Hidden functionality part of the readme (it’s also in this post’s body)
Looks awesome! Is a Chinese input method in the works, by any chance? I’m still using Swype & Dragon that has been removed from google play 5 years ago as there is so far no decent alternative, and especially not in the FOSS space.
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.
Can I choose dvorak yet?
Yupp I do ☺️
How do you get to that setting? I swear it used to be under “Languages and Layouts”, I don’t see an option for Dvorak.
Tap your language of choice, it opens a popup with options to select all the layouts. Slightly hidden, took me a minute to find.
Thanks
Go to Languages Then English then next to layout there is a Plus Symbol.
Anybody know how deep keyboard history is? I’d like something like 10+