Still waiting for Japanese support. At the moment the only decent Japanese keyboard on Android are either GBoard or Microsoft one unfortunately.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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TLDR: Why do I stop using OpenBoard and use this instead :)?
Some new features, bug fixes, and ongoing support.
~~It is a new application so you do have to set it up fresh - don't switch until you have a bit of spare time.~~ Missed the back and restore button in settings.
Personally I'm on one of the fork's beta versions. I'm waiting for the f-droid release so I get updates.
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Swiping
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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?
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.
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.
I have to admit that gboard is pretty amazing at the detecting my sloppiness. But... knowing everything I type and say is going to Google... well, let's just says I'm willing to tolerate the extra work so as to keep things away from them.
FUTO is definitely slower than Google's speech to text engine, but for the same reason... I think I'm completely okay with that now.
I've turned off network access for Gboard and have the offline speech recognition installed. This is why I have Helioboard + FUTO installed but don't use them, as they don't yet exceed an offline Gboard in function.
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What happened to OpenBoard?
Development ceased.
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. 💜
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
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.
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:
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)
You can tap and hold on the microphone button to pin it to the right.
This is a hot tip!
Exactly this. You can pin several functions this way.
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Hi! Started using heliboard a few weeks ago, but what are those other two?
HeliBoard board supports Swipe gestures and FUTO is a free, offline speech to text app that works incredibly well for me and the two languages I use.
Links and instructions here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/8335355
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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.
Does it have multiple layouts support (Latin, Cyrillic), swipe typing and clipboard history?
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
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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?
I didn't know about experimental dictionaries. Would this help with swipe recognition as it's really poor compared to gboard?
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.
Do you have a link to them? I can't see them on their GirHub (bit I could just be missing it).
Sure. They were linked in the app too btw. Not every language does have one so maybe that's why you didn't find them.
Found them in the app. I had 'Use System Languages' selected. Changed that now.
Will see if it works any better. Thank you.
Good to know 👍
Any idea when it's going to be available in fdroid?
It's on IzzyOnDroid repo
Thanks!
Clarifying: the app is there but not this latest update yet. It'll have some delay. You can use obtanium if you don't want to wait
Thanks, it doesn't really matter, as long as it gets there eventually. I just don't want to have to check for updates manually. Thanks again. I really appreciate it!
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Finally had a reason to try Obtanium. Picked it right up. Hopeful this can replace the watch I set in GitHub.
Thanks!
Same, and my wasn't that painless :)
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This update somehow has broken haptic feedback on my keyboard 🤔
It's really great to see a continuation of Openboard.
Been looking for a decent keyboard app, gonna try this out for sure 🙂
Great piece of software!
I second this