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Maybe you meant Izzy ? https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/helium314.keyboard HeliBoard does not appear to be in the main F-Droid repository unless I'm overlooking something.
You are probably correct. Didn't check the repo.
Yes, this.
Highly customisable, fast, multi language (so you don't have to switch), and you can even load in (a degoogled, but still proprietary) swiping library - so it swipes like gboard, looks however you like, it's fully local, and it's open.
Earlier this month they published 1.0 alpha but do install the 1.2 version from github for easier future updates (new signature): github/Helium314/HeliBoard.
I don't understand how to get the swipe library, could you link it by any chance pls.
See how to enable glide typing in the FAQ:
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard?tab=readme-ov-file#faq--common-issues
Oh thanks so much, all worked out. I'm finally happy with my keyboard after like 2 years
The Swype library really saved my ass, I was still holding onto Gboard because of it
How do you get the auto correct / language support to actually work? It's less than useless for me, it hardly ever provides suggestions or corrects typos and doesn't recognise a lot of regular words. Adjusting the aggressiveness/confidence in the settings does absolutely nothing.
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Heliboard is just perfect
I just grabbed it from your suggestion. my gods I forgot how nice it is to have a keyboard with autocorrect that works properly.
thank you very much. this is a fantastic little keyboard and I'm excited to finally replace Swiftkey. cause it's really been bad for a while.
thanks again 🙏
I tried to switch to heliboard using multiple languages but its predictions is simply out of league compared to SwiftKey. Reluctantly, I switched back.
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Here's one I made, called Thumb-Key. No internet permissions, made to be private.
Darn it, I popped into this thread to suggest Thumb-Key, and was beaten to it by the maker of the keyboard!
Thank you for making my phone usage much faster and enjoyable (written using Thumb-Key of course!) :)
I use this after messagease suddenly decided to charge a subscription fee.
It's pretty darn close in functionality. Highly recommend taking the time to learn it.
Thx! Ya the main reason I made it, was because messagease development died, and all my emails to the messagease team (their only contact email) went unanswered for like 2+ years. So it seemed like a good opportunity to do a from-scratch open source rewrite.
I actually forked your code so I could customize the keyboard a little bit. I was impressed that I didn't have any problems building the thing right away. Doesn't always happen for me with open source projects.
One thing that was driving me nuts was how sensitive the swipe gestures on the spacebar are. I guess my thumbs always do a slight swipe when I'm pressing space and it was moving the cursor position on me. I wiped out all of that code. If you're taking suggestions, a way to disable swipe gestures on the spacebar would be a cool add. I'll see if I can get together a PR for it as well and be a part of the solution.
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I would recommended you HeliBoard (an OpenBoard alternative with some enhancements like multi language typing) https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
Thanks to you and everyone else in this thread that recommended HeliBoard. It's excellent
Thanks for the recommendation. I see there's gesture typing support if you load a library. Which one do you use if any?
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Been using Florisboard for a while. It is the most like gboard, although the swipe typing is not as good. All in all though, I'd still recommend.
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I've wandered through a bunch of them. Used to use Florisboard. Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good too. The Hacker's Keyboard for some stuff. Mostly these days Heliboard for general typing.
Ima be honest, I just use Google Keyboard but disable the its networking for the app.
If you'd like to have a more ergonomical keyboard: thumb-key is way worth the learning curve!
+1 for the keyboard. I thought it was a meme app at first but it turned out to be way better than I ever expected. Written from Thumb-key BTW.
Thx! (I'm the main dev)
I like florisboard, it's fairly customizable.
Simple Keyboard on fdroid. Others have more features, but I can't switch. The swipe delete and swipe to move cursor are so smooth and I can't make any other keyboards work as well for me. I wanted florisboard to work, but it just felt clunky
Do you mean the SimpleMobileTools keyboard or the "normal" Simple Keyboard?
Coming from the Samsung keyboard (and before that Apple), I'm quite dissatisfied with the cursor movement in most Android keyboards (including HeliBoard).
the latter
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Spent a bit of time customising it when I got it, and it's saved me so much frustration over the past year. Copy pasting, tabbing, having an undo via keyboard, moving character with an arrow. I enjoy typing with a touchscreen now. Would recommend it to anyone wholeheartedly.
I'm also a Swiftkey holdover, trying Heliboard now..
Is there a keyboard that can do haptic feedback while typing and enable multiple languages at the same time? These two features are really missing for me.
Heliboard can do multilingual typing, and I believe there is some kind of haptic feedback... I don't use that function, but it was mentioned in the latest release notes
How does it do multilingual typing? You have to change the input method, right?
Not necessarily: you can choose to have several languages separated as different input methods (you can switch between them very quickly by sliding vertically from the space bar) OR you can go to "Settings / Languages" and select one of your active languages and inside its submenu add languages for multilingual typing. This way when you select that original language as input method it will use and recognise all the languages you added at once. I must say this can be tricky with glide typing, but still works pretty well.
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