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are you the developer? if so I have a suggestion
Please add a paste button. There is is seemingly no OSS keyboard that does this. I am so tired of long pressing and then pasting and then sometimes it highlights a word instead, so tiresome
There is already a paste button, although not directly shown. I can access it in 3 different ways (but I have made some changes to the default settings, so it might not be exactly the same for you):
- on the toolbar on top of the keyboard (you need to extend it by tapping the > button on the top left). You can customise the buttons that show up here in “Settings/Preferences/Additional keys/Select toolbar keys”
- by long pressing the comma key (my favourite way), a pop up shows with several keys, among them the paste key.
- by long pressing the enter key
Also note that you can pin the paste button to the suggestions bar by long-pressing it.
ooo this is cool thanks
thank you so much for these.
well, all these require two actions. it would be cool to just press a toolbar button and automatically paste instead of going into a paste menu
Just downloaded! Now I use F Droid and this keyboard! It’s pretty neat looking and I like it
Writing with it right now. I think i just disabled gboard for good.
Finally!
There are lots of privacy-friendly keyboards but many only implement English and some very basic features. However, this one does it all.
Definitely check out the Hidden functionality part of the readme (it’s also in this post’s body)
dude I’ve been using it for a couple of days. I absolutely love this. I even found the setting to use an image as a background and it works great! this is my all time use keyboard now. was very happy to get rid of Swiftkey.
This needs more contributors FYI. There’s a ton of issues and feature requests
How do you do the multilingual typing? I often switch between my native language and English.
Disable the “use system language” setting and choose your native language. You can then add English to your native languages layout as a secondary language.
I want to love it, but the swipe feature using the external library is OK (worse than Gboard) for English, but horrible for Spanish. I have to correct every other word.
I don’t know if it’s a library or heliboard issue, but it’s a dealbreaker.
Florisboard 0.5 is supposed to release with native functionality, hopefully works better and heliboard can use that too
With a little customization I able to generally get a setup I liked except for a persistent terminal-friendly top row from AnySoftKeyboard (Ctrl, Tab, |, /, Arrows left, up, down, right, Esc). I don’t do too much terminal work, but when you do, it’s so handy—but eventually I noticed how handy it was outside the terminal as feature like Ctrl+V or arrows being faster than using menus or long pressing the screen. Tab is really great for typing accessible code snippets too.
It’s a bit sad the dictionaries are held on a pirvacy-respecting, German nonprofit-held, free software Codeberg repository, but the main repository is tied to the US-based, megacorporate, proprietary repository. Not even a mirror.
The biggest selling point is how unlike AnySoftKeyboard, you don’t need to get an Android+Java environment setup just to add or tweak a new keyboard. Being a JSON file & having many to-JSON options, users are hardly shackled to a specific or difficult-to-work-with option. Even if not perfect, ultimately I might give this a fulltime go when I have time to write out the three language keyboards I need—which is not a phrase I could say about other options since the time to set up for & learn the basics for Android was a task too large.
Now after a day of intense testing, I got to say the keyboard is great. It has everything I needed to switch away from gboard. Even background image function and translucent keys and dual language. I really hope this project is maintained forever, that’s how good it feels to use this keyboard.
Thanks, this is basically all I needed to hear. Im gonna try it out immediately.
Some options are a bit hidden and you got to tinker a bit to understand what keyboard layout you want, but it’s all there.
Works great so far!
I saw this recommended elsewhere on Lemmyna few days ago and have given it a shot after a month or two trying AnySoftKeyboard - its great.
It may not be as obviously feature laden with additional keyboards etc as ASK but it has much better defaults - all of the extra punctuation is where my fingers just expect it to be after a long time on SwiftKey.
Thanks, this looks great! Just downloaded it and gave it a quick spin.
I can’t find this on f-droid for some reason…
I had the same problem using droid-ify until I uninstalled openboard for some reason. (Technically I uninstalled the fork that has since turned into helibord, but it was called open board also before they renamed it for f-droid release, so it still showed up as open board in droid-ify, just a newer version)
It did show up in the normal f-droid app for me though
Confusing… I’m currently using openboard; does that mean I’m actually using heliboard?
It’s a fork.
Someone forked the project (made a copy and started making updates and improvements to the copy independent of the original developer) and I installed it directly from the forked github repo, where it was getting updates. But they didn’t rename it until they published it on f-droid, so the app still showed up as openboard on my phone, just a newer version than the one available on f-droid
You had me at “number pad”
