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Heliboard โ€” FOSS Keyboard

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HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

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Just got pleasantly surprised by the 3.7 release!!

Thx devs & contributors for keeping the project alive!

/HeliBoard/releases

Changes since 3.7-beta1:

- fix issues with selection wrapping
- add info to timestamp setting on how to get the button
- additional info dialogs about gesture data gathering

Changes since 3.6:

- add ("normal" / non-inline) emoji search, by @eranl (#1765)
-- needs emoji dictionary from dictionaries repository
- add optional gesture data gathering functionality (#1641)
-- requires gesture typing library, see #2226 for info
- wrap selected text in braces and similar instead of replacing text (#1948)
- better detection of which emojis are available
- allow setting a separate emoji font (#1565)
- make showing number row in symbols layout optional
- reduce bad autocorrections for mail addresses
- fix space bar cursor movement for RTL + non-RTL text, by @eranl (#2199)
- don't trim selection when recapitalizing, by @devycarol (#2225)
- improve khipro combiner, by @qomarhsn (#2134, #2239)
- update Kaitag layout, by @alkaitagi (#2306) minor fixes and improvements

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[โ€“] Overspark@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Actively adding gestures is kind of fun in a zen game kind of way.