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Heliboard goes into 1.0 (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't know about experimental dictionaries. Would this help with swipe recognition as it's really poor compared to gboard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a link to them? I can't see them on their GirHub (bit I could just be missing it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

Experimental dictionaries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Found them in the app. I had 'Use System Languages' selected. Changed that now.

Will see if it works any better. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Good to know 👍