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

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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    7 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. 💜

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      7 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:

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      7 months ago

      this is great. I’ve been looking for a gboard replacement for so long
      minor thing: how do i import my personal dictionary from gboard? the github page says something about .dict files but gboard exported a zip with a .txt file

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        7 months ago

        Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with importing and exporting personal dictionaries. I looked into it a bit, but wasn’t successful in finding anything relevant.

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      7 months ago

      Am I understanding correctly, you can swipe in two languages without hitting a “switch language” button like on Gboard? If so I may have to make the switch

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        7 months ago

        Unfortunately no. That’s remains part of the 10% that this solution doesn’t replicate 1:1. But… you can use a spacebar gesture (e.g. vertical swipe) to quickly change languages. Works like a charm.

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        7 months ago

        Oh my goodness yes! I say punctuations constantly out of habit and then have to edit them out. But I’m also really impressed with FUTOs ability to determine punctuation based on pauses.

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          7 months ago

          Yes, don’t get me wrong, it is very, very, good. However I want full control over the characters being entered. I had thought that’s what “verbose” mode was going to be, but honestly I can’t figure out what that is.