Re: Android keyboard: your choice.

Henry The Mole wrote on Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:22:10 +0200 :

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Helium Keyboard
https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v1.3
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/helium314.keyboard

Name: HeliBoard_1.3-release.apk
Size: 21421991 bytes (20 MiB)
SHA256: CFCC1EEEE7A5466034F01B34C97554907DF397847771A4CC7DDBE9DED35E4B85

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

Features:
Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section
additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to
provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")
Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some
versions of Android 9)
can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling use system
languages)
Multilingual typing
Glide typing (only with closed source library)
library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source
library available
can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here
Clipboard history
One-handed mode
Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
Number pad
Backup and restore your learned word / history data

Looks nice for keyboard layout & for assured privacy.

The main problem I have with it, after I installed HeliBoard, is there is
no voice input, by default. Maybe voice input can be added later somehow?