Since yesterday, the really cool fork of openboard with active development and support of adding a swype library manually, got rebranded into Heliboard. A release on izzyondroidrepo and fdroid should be coming soon.
PS. If you are using the old fork you have to remove it first and do a backup of your settings.
How does it compare to floris board ?
I initially used FlorisBoard, but I changed to OpenBoard for the automatic corrections. As far as I know, FlorisBoard can only underline errors in red, then you have to tap the word and select which option it should be. On OpenBoard, a correction is made automatically, and it’s quite accurate!
I actually prefere the way Floris Board handles word correction. I wish for a more complete and reliable way to word suggestion with an actual build-in dictionnary with definition, synonyms, collocation, antonymes… Would actually improve my English :/.
Auto-correction is cool and all, but IMO we shouldn’t relie to much on that.
*Rely 🤣. It’s true, but for me it’s just much faster to have auto-correction, I usually know how words should be written, but I hit the wrong letter quite often, so that’s why this works for me.
Damn, there are no FOSS glide typing libs, that explains the lack of options with FOSS keyboards.
I think it must be really hard to implement something that translates a bunch of seemingly random vectors to the closest resembling word.
It’s a bit like T9 typing but in reverse. You do an isolation of which words can be constructed out of every key your finger slides over, assign higher weight to the ones where sharp turns or longer dwell times were, and then take the most statistically likely result, and suggest the next 3 possible results in the top bar.
Why was it forked? Is the original no longer being developed?
It hasnt been for a quite a bit of time already. Like over a year I think at this point.
I want to use one of these OSS keyboards, but man they suck a lot for non-English typing… and especially if you want/need multiple languages!
I use it for English and German. And it works great.
Agree. And this is the first OSS keyboard I’ve found that can do multiple languages at the same time without switching the language/layout. (You can set secondary language) It requires a bit of setup (like downloading dictionaries) but I’d suggest to give it a try.
I use it for Spanish and it works perfectly, what language are you trying?
I had to stop using it for English even because its word predictions were horrible. Very common words kept correcting to much less common words on a regular basis. I gave it a good three months and I just can’t do it. Wanted to like it so much.
Just installed it. Adjusted the settings to my liking. Very nice. Like OpenBoard, but has quite a lot of extras by comparison. Thanks for the tip.
A very fine keyboard, especially for multilingual typing.
I’ve failed to get that to work. How do you actually get additional languages?
press on the downloaded language and set a secondary dictionary.
