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.
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 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.
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.
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!
Same question, floris board came the cloests to replacing non-FOSS keybaords for me.
The main reason I didn’t switch yet was the lack of word suggestions / autocorrect. We rely on it so much
Other things that would be nice to have:
a more ‘clicky’ feeling on keypress, similar to Google Keyboard (not sure how hard that would be to implement)
support for inserting gifs, so that I don’t have to use the sticker/gif menu in the apps themselves
Built in translations, maybe even done locally. It’s really cool being able to type something in English, such as in a game, and having it send in another language. I’ve used it way more than I thought I would
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