Releases: Helium314/HeliBoard
OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v5.1
OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v5
better use v5.1, this release sometimes crashes
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 v4:
- replace language settings
- unifies old settiings for languages, layouts, multilingual typing, and dictionaries
- language selection by user is reset (both enabled languages, and for multilingual typing)
- multilingual typing now allows more than one language
- update translations
- including translations from OpenBoard weblate
- and strings taken from a more recent version of AOSP keyboard
- try to improve auto-correction (#71, #86)
- add number pad
- allow enabling split keyboard for large enough phones (landscape mode only)
- remove old material themes
- your theme might change if you decided to keep an old one after the last update
- when using the debug version and the app crashes, on entering settings you can get a crash log
- enable Hinglish subtype (dictionary will be available at https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries)
- bug fixes
- remove dictionaries for languages with less than 10 million speakers (Esperanto, Danish, Armenian). You can still get them at https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries
- cleanup of unused files and resources
- compress native libraries for smaller apk
OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v4
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 v3:
- some layout adjjustments / improvements
- adjusted layout for setup wizard
- narrower key gaps in (with option to go back to old ones)
- all themes are now based on the theming system initially created for user-defined themes
- original old themes are still available, but will be removed in v5
- replacements of the old themes may look slightly different than the originals (especially no-border dark theme)
- user-defined auto-theme can switch between 2 themes of your choice
- split number row when splitting keyboard
- some bug fixes
- spell check if word ends with period is fixed, but this seems to have introduced another bug: #55
Plan for v5:
- remove old themes
- re-work language settings (keyboard will show up as a single keyboard in keyboard switcher (long press space), without languages)
- remove dictionaries for languages with less than 10 million speakers from built-in dictionaries (sorry, you may need to download a dictionary from https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries)
- add numpad
- allow splitting keyboard on phones
- add some pre-defined themes
OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v3
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.
This is a version of OpenBoard with some of the open PRs merged, and some more work I never finished because the OpenBoard devs stopped responding.
The added functionality has not been tested a lot, so be prepared for bugs or unexpected behavior.
Notable changes:
- Debug version can be installed along OpenBoard
- Allow users to add and replace built-in dictionaries
- dictionaries are available at https://github.com/Helium314/openboard/tree/new/dictionaries/dict
- Add multi-lingual typing
- Allow loading an external library to enable gesture typing
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
com.android.inputmethod.latin
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
- Allow adjusting keyboard colors
- Suggestion improvements / fixes
- Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open
- Optionally add typed words to system personal dictionary
- Use contacts for suggestions (enable in spell checker settings)
- new since v2
- Add Unicode 15 emojis
- Fix issues with emoji deletion
- More correct currency symbol on main keyboard
- Improved user-defined theming and navigation bar colors
- Experimental (hopefully better) dictionaries for download at https://github.com/Helium314/openboard/tree/new/dictionaries/experimental/dict, though currently only for few languages
- Minor improvements / adjustments in many places
OpenBoard new 1.4.5 v2
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.
This is a version of OpenBoard with some of the open PRs merged, and some more work I never finished because the OpenBoard devs stopped responding.
The added functionality has not been tested a lot, so be prepared for bugs or unexpected behavior.
Notable changes:
- Debug version can be installed along OpenBoard
- Allow users to add and replace built-in dictionaries
- dictionaries are available at https://github.com/Helium314/openboard/tree/new/dictionaries/dict
- Add multi-lingual typing
- Allow loading an external library to enable gesture typing
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
com.android.inputmethod.latin
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
- Allow adjusting keyboard colors
- Suggestion improvements / fixes
- Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open
- Optionally add typed words to system personal dictionary
- Use contacts for suggestions (enable in spell checker settings)
(changed signing keys compared to first version, you will need to re-install when upgrading)
OpenBoard new 1.4.5
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.
This version uses different signing keys than v2+, so you can't install v2+ as update to this, or other way round.
This is a version of OpenBoard with some of the open PRs merged, and some more work I never finished because the OpenBoard devs stopped responding.
The added functionality has not been tested a lot, so be prepared for bugs or unexpected behavior.
Notable changes:
- Debug version can be installed along OpenBoard
- Allow users to add and replace built-in dictionaries
- dictionaries are available at https://github.com/Helium314/openboard/tree/new/dictionaries/dict
- Add multi-lingual typing
- Allow loading an external library to enable gesture typing
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
com.android.inputmethod.latin
- working: google libraries with gesture typing, library from https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00 when built for
- Allow adjusting keyboard colors
- Suggestion improvements / fixes
- Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open
- Optionally add typed words to system personal dictionary