After trying so many keyboards for years, heliboard with swipe + futo have finally made replacing gboard possible for me. I feel like it been a 90℅ replacement, a far greater degree than some of the good (but not quite there) keyboards currently available. I’ve literally only been using it for a week (for two languages), but I’m really really happy thus far. 😊
I just tried HeliBoard. Ditching Florisboard for now. I still think Florisboard has potential but it is undeveloped, and HeliBoard has everything you’d expect for a Gboard open source substitution. Let’s go! Finally we have our first open source keyboard alternative without drawbacks!
That’s mean.
Florisboard is awesome.
It’s been years without a single new feature, and it’s literally lacking the most important feature of a phone keyboard.
It doesn’t have swipe functionality, right?
I tried it but couldn’t find the option.
Go to advanced settings on your HeliBoard app and look for “Load gesture typing library” or similar. Go to HeliBoard GitHub and look for instructions on downloading the library.
Make sure the downloaded library architecture is the specified by the message you’ll see when you click “Load gesture typing library”.
It’s just 30 seconds and you’ll be gesture typing.
The library is closed source.
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Well, it’s the one we’ve got for now
It’s a shame it’s not open but just got around to trying this out.
It works great! Thanks for the heads up!