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There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let's be honest: a lot of the offerings aren't great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I've been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).

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[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

My big gripe with heliboard is that I can't change key size. (Unless you can and I missed it please tell me) Going from Gboard to heliboard I struggle to get the right words with swipe due to the size difference and it's frustrating.

I have to use gboard on my work phone so there's no just getting used to it unfortunately.

Edit to add changing keyboard height has helped quite a bit. I'm still a little off but this is much more usable.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I actually was able to get it pretty freaking close after posting this by changing the scale to 109% and bottom padding to 174%

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go to Settings > Appearance > Keyboard Height Scale. Is this what you're looking for?

I needed bottom padding a smidge too

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had the same issue, I set it to 110% on my phone. It would be cool if someone put together a guide on common configurations to help it match other apps.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Keyboard height 109% and bottom padding at 174% is what I set it to after posting this and it lines up within a pixel or two or gboard. IDK how that scales across different phones but this is a pixel 8.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

U can totally customise it but I need to go in deep and mess with the layout json. I did it so I have a tab key on my main keyboard mainly for quick auto complete in terminals.

Able to share/point me in the right direction?Β