Since yesterday, the really cool fork of openboard with active development and support of adding a swype library manually, got rebranded into Heliboard. A release on izzyondroidrepo and fdroid should be coming soon.

PS. If you are using the old fork you have to remove it first and do a backup of your settings.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same question, floris board came the cloests to replacing non-FOSS keybaords for me.

The main reason I didn't switch yet was the lack of word suggestions / autocorrect. We rely on it so much

Other things that would be nice to have:

a more 'clicky' feeling on keypress, similar to Google Keyboard (not sure how hard that would be to implement)
support for inserting gifs, so that I don't have to use the sticker/gif menu in the apps themselves
Built in translations, maybe even done locally. It's really cool being able to type something in English, such as in a game, and having it send in another language. I've used it way more than I thought I would

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are tapping on a piece of glass. What is a "clicky feeling"? Vibration, or a popup?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The vibration pretty much

I just took a look at FlorisBoard again, and it looks like there are settings to change the vibration intensity and length. Setting it to the highest intensity and lowest length brought things very close.

A tiny difference I noticed that I could live without

google keyboard vibrates both when the key is pressed down, and when it is released
Floris only vibrates on keypress

For what it's worth, long press special characters on google keyboard dont vibrate on release, which I think is silly. It should always do that (maybe even having some lighter vibration feedback when a special character is used)

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

I found that the Pixel 7 pro finally got close to an iphone 8 in terms of realistic haptic vibrations. The 6a doesnt work with florisboards "define vibration yourself" though.

So in general useful haptic vibrations like on iphones where just never there. Not sure about other brands but all android phones I had had unrealistic vibrations.