As the title says I’m looking for a good alternative for Heliboard. I’ve tried a few of them and:

  • Heliboard is my favorite but the suggestions are a bit meh, sometimes it doesn’t suggest correctly or does not auto correct me. Sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn’t
  • Futo is goat in suggestions compared to Heliboard but it doesn’t have an much personalization as Heliboard (even if Heliboard isnt goat on that aspect). I can’t change symbols layout based on my taste (or muscle memory tbh), themes are a nothing crazy IMO, I wish I was able to make my own but its currently set to “coming eventually”
  • FlorisBoard was my first ever open source keyboard but at that time, it didn’t have suggestions but placeholders so I uninstalled it because I need them

I’m looking for a few things (ordered by importance):

  1. Multilanguage support for correction. Is it even possible? Before switching from Samsung Keyboard to Pixel + Foss keyboard, I think there was something similar but I could be wrong (Top priority but at the same time is optional if not possible/hard to have)
  2. Great correction for multiple languages (IMHO Futo is superior to everything I’ve tried)
  3. Customization: Symbols layout, I want to set my own symbols and “subsymbols” (? The hold to show more)
  4. Customization: Themes. I want to be able to change the colors of the keys/background/etc basically how Samsung Keyboard is customizable with the Keyboard plugin in Good Lock (or some nice themes with limited personalization but I would love to set my own colors

Thanks!

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayOP
      22·
      19 hours ago

      FlorisBoard was my first ever open source keyboard but at that time, it didn’t have suggestions but placeholders so I uninstalled it because I need them

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Yeah I’m on FUTO. I haven’t found better. I’m happy with it.

    Swiftkey used to be great but Microsoft is the company that wants to take screenshots of your banking info and put them on a silver platter for hackers. Dumb to use what they make when you can help it. A Microsoft keyboard is still better than, say, a facebook keyboard, but not by enough.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
    102·
    2 days ago

    Heliboard was showing so much promise for me, but seems development has stopped? For multi language keyboards I find it frustrating that when you hold the keys, the first symbol to show isn’t the one in the corner of the key. this is especially annoying for numbers… You’d expect the key O to give you a 9 when held, as the little 9 symbol in the corner hints. But in my case it shows first an accent-O and I’d need to scroll left a few symbols to find 9.

      • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 day ago

        Thanks… Fdroid isn’t showing the update yet but i can see it in izzydroid (i prefer to wait a couple days for fdroid though). Previous update was six months ago, so I was losing my hopes.

    • Wilmo Bones@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Heliboard has had a ton of commits in their repo the past few weeks. I’d expect a new release before too long but it has been a long time since the last one for sure. But it’s definitely active.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Typing now with heliboard and yeah, its not ideal. But I still like it best. Good luck with your hunt.

    • Karkitoo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Last release from 2021.

      I saw some recent commits so there’s still hope bit I’ll wait.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      A bit confusing for now and no suggestion? I have to check that and yes, its on. Keyboard is dark and the styled based on app does not work

      .

      Very dark for no reason

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I said the “problems” with it but currently using it because suggestions/correction is the best

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 days ago

    I’ve resigned to just using the stock keyboard. It’s terrible, and always autocorrects my “The” to “Tue” for some reason, but I can live with it. Heliboard really was underwhelming, and AnySoft had some issues not showing a normal keyboard on certain inputs.

    • exposable_preview@slrpnk.net
      7·
      2 days ago

      I resigned a couple years ago to using the default aosp keyboard as well, only to find out a couple of weeks ago about heliboard. It has gesture typing and multilingual support, which I missed from gboard. autocorrect is still crap, but i’m already used to it, so for me it was an all around improvement. quite surprised to see others not liking it