OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v14.1

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v14:

• fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to switch to the old parser
• added some more layouts for the new parser
  • including Serbian cyrillic, may be a workaround for horrible behavior of some Android systems (#280)
• fix bugs introduced in v14 (#301, #302)

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v14

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v13:

• multilingual typing: slightly suppress suggestions of other (not currently used) languages
• slightly reduce the occurrence of garbage words when glide typing (#48)
• updated new keyboard parser
  • now used also for remaining latin layouts, and for symbol layouts
  • should only result in minor visual changes
  • reset setting to switch to old parsing, so the new parser will be used on first start
    • the setting will be removed after migration to the new parser(s) is complete, so please report issues that make you switch back
• fix broken fallback user dictionary settings (used in the uncommon case where system settings are not available)
• some changes to debug mode
  • show suggestion infos for all suggestions
  • show language confidence infos on spacebar
• bugfixes (#293, #287, #284, #271)

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v13

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v12:

• trail color for sliding key and gesture input can be customized (#269)
• when adjusting colors, only main colors are shown by default (use option in top bar menu to show all)
• new simplified keyboard parsing (based on text files instead of xml resources)
  • only used for latin layouts, except azerty, dvorak and colemak
  • should only result in minor visual changes
  • added setting to switch to old parsing
    • the setting will be removed after migration to the new parser(s) is complete, so please report issues that make you switch back
• various small fixes and improvements (#256, #271, #185, #265 and more)

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v12

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v11:

• add new Rounded keyboard style (#260, thanks a lot to @BlackyHawky)
• replace pre-defined split layouts with more generic ability to split any keyboard layout (#258)
  • may slightly change split layouts
• backup restore functionality (#200)
• improve color picker (#239, #242)
• copy descriptions of hidden features from readme to the About section (#227, #235)
• option for resizing bottom padding
• bug fixes (#229, #230, #247, #243 and a bunch of duplicates)
• some internal re-work

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v11

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v10:

• new color picker for user-defined colors (#220, #156)
• add emojis to user history, mainly for next-word suggestions
• all emojis trigger phantom (auto) space (previously only multi-codepoint emojis would do that)
• smoother movement of spacebar trackpad within a word (#203)
• update some translations (#207, #219, #222)
• fix a bunch of bugs / issues (#215, #188, #203, #191, #189, #184)

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v10

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v9:

• add toolbar in suggestion strip
  • contains voice input, clipboard, settings, select all (#139 ) and cursor keys
  • long-press keys to pin them to the suggestion strip
  • if you use force incognito mode: you can now press the icon to show the toolbar
  • remove voice and clipboard key preferences (just pin those keys if you want them in the suggestion strip)
• make long press hint for comma and other keys optional
  • now available for material style too
• show details when clicking user-added dictonaries
• minor fixes (mostly related to URL detection, e.g. #180)
• add monochrome launcher icon (#98, #182)

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v9

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v8:

• add Korean (Hangul) keyboard (adapted from https://github.com/Lee0701/openboard/tree/hangul)
  • symbols can only be added to the end of a word, not at the beginning or in the middle
  • dictionaries produced by tools not working, use this one
• enable hardware keyboard support
  • done as part of Hangul import
  • untested, just enabled an existing flag
• URL detection (enable in experimental settings)
  • essentially kicks in if any of .:_@ is not followed by a space, then everything containing this character is seen as one word
  • maybe too aggressive
  • when testing, sometimes there were issues when deleting URL parts, maybe not everything has been fixed
• cancel auto-space after punctuation by pressing shift
• minor fixes

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v8

Note: This release was accidentally built using the wrong branch. APKs have been replaced by the correct ones ca 3 hours after release (19:50 UTC)

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v7:

• merge key popups of all languages for multilingual typing
• allow showing all available keys in popups (latin script only)
• enable debug settings in debug mode (find it in advanced settings)
  • not really tested, just enabled the previously hidden settings from AOSP keyboard
  • probably not interesting, except for dumping dictionary information into the log
• autocorrect/-expand shortcuts defined in user-dictionary
• enable phrase gesture option
  • when using glide typing, swipe over space to to enter multiple words
  • not working that well though, maybe that's why the setting was disabled
• history is now learning from auto-capitalized words too
  • very useful for short sentences
• new screen for setting user-defined colors
  • preview of all the currently used colors
  • you may determine colors automatically (very simple way of auto-choosing)
  • dummy text field for showing the keyboard in the settings
  • you can now set key background color when key borders are disabled (used for space bar)
• number keyboard now has keys arranged similar to numpad
• minor fixes

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v7

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v6:

• switch Holo theme to same internal style as Material
  • Holo White does look a little different now
  • no replacement for Holo Blue, please comment if you want it back (not sure if it's worth the effort)
  • allow disabling key borders for Holo
  • theme family and variant may revert to default
• migrate settings and app themes to androidx / appcompat
  • settings might look a little different, depending on your Android version
• adjust appearance settings due to the theme and androidx changes
• remove some unused resources and enable minify, resulting in smaller APK
• add ur_PK layout (#133)
• add more options for language switch key (#15)
• possibly fix detection of spell checker language (#116)
• various minor fixes and improvements

OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v6

All releases are mostly development versions. They can be used, but may contain confusing or unnecessary settings. Settings may be removed or reset on updates. Consider all releases as beta quality at best.

Changes since v5.1:

• less aggressive autocorrect to other word with same base letters (e.g. le -> lé)
  • this was a rather annoying issue when not using glide typing...
• open .dict files with openboard (content uri only, should work with all file explorers using storage access framework)
• show dialog when enabling a keyboard for a locale that has no dicitonary
• replace toasts, as they do not show on some Android versions