Maintained Openboard FOSS Keyboard Fork (Android)
I’ve been using the Openboard keyboard on Android for a while but it seems like the developers have either disappeared, abandoned the project, or are otherwise just MIA/not releasing new versions.
In case anyone was still using the old version, was just wanting to let people know that there is a fork that is continuing development of it and has already had some improvements, though it’s considered beta/development for now: github.com/Helium314/openboard/tree/new
According to their Github, here are some of the current differences and changes:
spoilerDebug version can be installed along OpenBoard Allow users to add and replace built-in dictionaries modified / improved from openboard-team#569 and openboard-team#578 some AOSP dictionaries are available here experimental dictionaries with next-word suggestions created from sentence lists are also available, but they may contain unwanted words, and may be missing other features dictionary files starting with “main_” replace the built-in dictionary for the language, all other names work as add-on dictionaries emoji dictionaries can be used to get emoji suggestions Fixes / improvements regarding suggestions Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open (suggestions get re-added if they are entered again) Allow using contacts for suggestions several small adjustments and fixes Reduce amount of unwanted automatic space insertions, openboard-team#576 Add multi-lingual typing, slightly modified from openboard-team#586, openboard-team#593 Allow loading an external library to enable gesture typing, openboard-team#3 based on wordmage’s work tested with Google libraries and others (when building with the rename) Theming: allow adjusting keyboard colors, openboard-team#124 Optionally make the navigation bar follow current theme, #4 Allow defining day/night themes Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open, openboard-team#106 suggestions get re-added if they are entered again Optionally add typed words to system personal dictionary Improve issues with emoji deletion (still happens with delete gesture), #22 Add Unicode 15 emojis, openboard-team#25 Better currency selection, #21 / github.com/…/0d1106649f95ecbd7d8f6d95042854766605…Reduce space between keys, with option to use old values, #8 Fix number row not split in split keyboard view, #27 Fix issue with spell checker incorrectly flagging words before a period as wrong on newer Android versions, openboard-team#679 maybe not properly fixed, this causes some other issues Fix always-dark settings on some Android versions, #69 Fix bug with space before word being deleted in some apps / input fields, github.com/…/ce0bf06545c4547d3fc5791cc769508db0a8…Allow using auto theme on some devices with Android 9 Add number pad Overhauled language settings Updated translations Open dictionary files with the app Add more options to the language switch key
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