Heliboard — FOSS Keyboard

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HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

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In case someone unfamiliar finds this post, in March, HeliBoard began its project to create a FOSS gesture library. This is the feature which allows users to swipe their fingers across an on screen keyboard, in order to produce words. Currently—if you are using this feature at all—you are utilizing a proprietary library, such as from Google.

Right now, it's in the collection phase, as this will need a mountain of user data to analyze before anything substantial can happen. This phase is planned to last until several months from now, and the more people send in words, the better!

Info on the project: Video (PeerTube) | Text Tutorial

Maybe seeing someone who's serious about sending in data will inspire others to send some too. Here's hoping, anyway! I've been doing a fair bit, but a handful of people doing a lot less would easily exceed my output. Ape together...strong!

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HeliBoard 3.7 (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club to c/Heliboard@lemmy.world
 
 

Just got pleasantly surprised by the 3.7 release!!

Thx devs & contributors for keeping the project alive!

/HeliBoard/releases

Changes since 3.7-beta1:

- fix issues with selection wrapping
- add info to timestamp setting on how to get the button
- additional info dialogs about gesture data gathering

Changes since 3.6:

- add ("normal" / non-inline) emoji search, by @eranl (#1765)
-- needs emoji dictionary from dictionaries repository
- add optional gesture data gathering functionality (#1641)
-- requires gesture typing library, see #2226 for info
- wrap selected text in braces and similar instead of replacing text (#1948)
- better detection of which emojis are available
- allow setting a separate emoji font (#1565)
- make showing number row in symbols layout optional
- reduce bad autocorrections for mail addresses
- fix space bar cursor movement for RTL + non-RTL text, by @eranl (#2199)
- don't trim selection when recapitalizing, by @devycarol (#2225)
- improve khipro combiner, by @qomarhsn (#2134, #2239)
- update Kaitag layout, by @alkaitagi (#2306) minor fixes and improvements

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I'd like to add some sort of gif library to this keyboard. Is that possible?

I saw a comment on github about it but I have not figured it out myself.

I'm a new user, love it so far.

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