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.
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
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.
Just figured out yesterday that OpenBoard is abandoned and jumped over to Heliboard, thanks to the announcement for 1.0 in this community. The top comment mentioning FUTO Voice Input, was also a great find.
The only annoying part is that I now have to retrain my recommendations for HB, since OB unlike HB, offers no way to extract your settings, and I found no method to access the settings files in newer Android. Thankfully, since HB offers import/export, it will be the last time.awesome keyboard, thanks for sharing.
No prob! I’ve been really liking it so far.