Heliboard 1.2 has just released. This version fixes a bug with certain Android devices not providing haptic feedback or audio feedback.
Thanks devs!
[Edited] Ironically my keyboard auto corrected its own name to “helipad.” Embarrassing 😵💫
With the ability to set bottom padding and the vibration issues being fixed. I feel like it is a good replacement for FlorisBoard.
I’ve been using it for the last several weeks and I really like it!
Is this the continuation of their fork of OpenBoard?
Yep.
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finally an open source platform for my open source helicopter
Lol!!! Corrected it now haha.
Lol corrected it now.
Autocorrect sucks
My favorite new feature here is vertically swiping the spacebar for vertical cursor movement. Not as good as iOS’s spacebar cursor implementation, but a welcome improvement over that of any other Android keyboard I have tried.
Oh that was fast. I just tried it and switched back to my default because of the bug.
I’ll try it again 😛
Edit:
Looks good! Hello from HeliBoard
I had to uninstall and reinstall to fix the issue (updating with the new APK didn’t work). I’ll try it out a few days and see how it goes.
Is there a list somewhere of other stuff that’s being worked on? Some I’d enjoy:
better emoji supportthis looks OK, I was looking in the wrong place- gif insertion
- on device translation while typing
Yeah, they butchered the signing key validity https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/issues/624
I just wish the autocorrect would work…at the moment there is zero difference when I change how aggressive it is in the settings, and it barely makes any suggestions or corrections to typos.