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Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard
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License
Apache License 2.0
HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard.
Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check</li>
<ul>
<li>build your own, or get them <a href="https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries#dictionaries">here</a>, or in the <a href="https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries#experimental-dictionaries">experimental</a> section (quality may vary)</li>
<li>additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")</li>
<li>note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using <a href="https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/commit/83fca9533c03b9fecc009fc632577226bbd6301f">this dictionary</a>, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries</li>
</ul>
<li>Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)</li>
<ul>
<li>can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)</li>
<li>can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+</li>
</ul>
<li>Customize keyboard <a href="https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/blob/main/layouts.md">layouts</a> (only available when disabling <i>use system languages</i>)</li>
<li>Customize special layouts, like symbols, number, or functional key layout</li>
<li>Multilingual typing</li>
<li>Glide typing (<i>only with closed source library</i> ☹️)</li>
<ul>
<li>library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available</li>
<li>can be extracted from GApps packages ("<i>swypelibs</i>"), or downloaded <a href="https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/46fdf2b550035ca69299ce312fa158e7ade36967/app/src/main/jniLibs">here</a> (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)</li>
</ul>
<li>Clipboard history</li>
<li>One-handed mode</li>
<li>Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)</li>
<li>Number pad</li>
<li>Backup and restore your settings and learned word / history data</li>
</ul>
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