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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.
Without auto correct, you can seperate the wheat from the chaff. /s
they are both great, but combined they would be a foss diamond of of cosmic porportions and never before reached ingenuity.
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.
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!
I am also a great fan of florisboard but the spell check being broken for over a year is kind of a deal breaker. Cause I am dyslectic af.
Requiring a proprietary blob for key functionality (pun intended) is a pretty major drawback, to me.
I know it's technically optional but it's a selling point of this software: "openboard but it supports swipe typing"
I'm in the same position because FlorisBoard will over time have all the features that HeliBoard has but HeliBoard has those already so I may switch too