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Fitheach

Going back to using LineageOS, I've discovered Heliboard. Heliboard is a keyboard. It is *very* configurable, and has all the features I could want. Heliboard works entirely offline, and is privacy-focussed.

Sound interesting? Give it a go:

f-droid.org/en/packages/helium

f-droid.orgHeliBoard | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryCustomizable open-source keyboard

@fitheach Does "multilingual typing" mean I could switch between different alphabets?

@erosdiscordia
Erm, not sure. Not tried it yet. Help file suggests that two, or more, dictionaries can be used at the same time.

@fitheach so far it's working well, it's very similar to the stock aosp one tbh but more customisable. I'm keeping it as the default

@fitheach thanks, typing on it right now. Looks neat! 👍

@fedops
I haven't found any disadvantages, so far. 😊

@fitheach pretty much exactly what I like - do you now if I can get rid of the 'toolbar' at the top? I'm happy to press a button to bring it up, I don't want it there all the time!

@xanna
What happens when you deselect all the toolbar options?

@fitheach Heliboard is most excellent, I had a bug with it where it started to capitalise every word and wouldn't accept being told not to, even the point of deleting it from its dictionary

@mactunag
Not got that bug on my version. I can imagine that would be most annoying.

@fitheach you can even change the caption on the space bar. Mine says 'spaaaaaace'.

@fitheach I like Heliboard, too. I combine it with #whisper. With it I can do speech-to-text offline.

@Penglix
Cool!
I'm going to give that a go.

@fitheach It also works well in mixed-language mode, letting me write in my language of choice without requiring me to change layout.

@erosdiscordia
See comment above, as an answer to your question.

@tfb