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Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Helium314/HeliBoard

The successor of Openboard, Heliboard finally comes out in 1.0 my favorite open source keyboard out there.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    11 months ago

    This is the definitive replacement for gboard, people. It works fantastically well already with everything that Gboard has and it will only get better from here on.

    • vort3@lemmy.ml
      0·
      11 months ago

      Does it have multiple layouts support (Latin, Cyrillic), swipe typing and clipboard history?

      • Wilmo Bones@lemmy.worldAkan
        1·
        11 months ago

        Idk about layouts but swipe is available if you look into it, you just need to download a file to load the it into the keyboard and yes on clipboard history

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago

    HeliBoard with Swipe + FUTO have made replacing gboard possible for me. I feel like it’s been a 90% replacement, a far greater degree than some of the decent keyboards currently available. I regularly use but swipe and speech to text in two languages. I’m really really happy and grateful for these tools. 💜

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
      4·
      11 months ago

      Just in case I’m asked, here’s the basics steps to get it going:

      • I downloaded the release from https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard and then installed. (Or set it up via Obtainium until its ready for F-Droid release)
      • I downloaded the Swipe library linked on the HeliBoard Github page from here.
      • Under HeliBoard settings -> advanced, I clicked “load gesture library” and selected the downloaded swipe library
      • And for voice input, l downloaded Futo from the play store. FYI, it’s free and offline, but not FOSS.

      That’s it.

      Just setup the two apps with your specifics like the theme and etc. This is what mine looks like now:

      • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        How do you get your microphone option in the top right corner like that. Mine only shows up under the toolbar menu, after hitting the arrow key (top left corner)

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
    1·
    11 months ago

    Still waiting for Japanese support. At the moment the only decent Japanese keyboard on Android are either GBoard or Microsoft one unfortunately.

  • tutus@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    11 months ago

    Been using this for about 3 months or so. The one piece missing is good swipe word recognition - its really poor compared to Gboard even after this amount of time. I spend more time correcting words than I saved nor typing them. Used swipe with Gboard for many years previously so I know hope swipe works.

    Any suggestions on how to improve it?

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 months ago

      I have found this to be the case as well.

      What it has forced me to do now is to actually try to be close to the letters. When I’m swiping with gboard, I was very sloppy and it would recognize what I wrote. At this point, I’m fine being more accurate for the tradeoff.

      • tutus@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        Hmmm. Yeah I’m pretty sloppy about my letters too. Maybe I need to be a bit more precise to get the best out of it.

  • Onizuka@feddit.de
    0·
    11 months ago

    Using it since version 14.1, as far as I remember but since then, I was finally able to replace gboard. Heli is really awesome. I always believed that florisboard will be my gboard replacement but for non-english swipe users nothing really changed or improved for years and then heli came out of the blue. Of course, it’s still a compromise compared to gboard and it probably always will be but to me it reached a point where this is minimal.

    Yesterday I found out about the experimental dictionaries and imported them. Let’s see if there will be visible improvement. Does anyone have more experience with those dictionaries?

    • tutus@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      11 months ago

      I didn’t know about experimental dictionaries. Would this help with swipe recognition as it’s really poor compared to gboard?

      • Onizuka@feddit.de
        0·
        11 months ago

        I found out about it only yesterday so I can’t really answer you this but it really seems like english works really well. I can’t day of it worked like tie with the old dictionary. Maybe someone else can answer this as I would like to know this as well.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    01·
    11 months ago

    If you can’t tell me what it is or how it’s useful to me when I scan through the primary landing page, not worth my time.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.de
      1·
      11 months ago

      HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

      First Paragraph of the readme.md in that repository.