Heliboard is the best right now
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
272 points (94.2% liked)
Android
18394 readers
436 users here now
The new home of /r/Android on Lemmy and the Fediverse!
Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps.
πUniversal Link: !android@lemdro.id
π‘Content Philosophy:
Content which benefits the community (news, rumours, and discussions) is generally allowed and is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, self-promotion, etc.) which will be removed if it's in violation of the rules.
Support, technical, or app related questions belong in: !askandroid@lemdro.id
For fresh communities, lemmy apps, and instance updates: !lemdroid@lemdro.id
π¬Matrix Chat
π°Our communities below
Rules
-
Stay on topic: All posts should be related to the Android OS or ecosystem.
-
No support questions, recommendation requests, rants, or bug reports: Posts must benefit the community rather than the individual. Please post to !askandroid@lemdro.id.
-
Describe images/videos, no memes: Please include a text description when sharing images or videos. Post memes to !androidmemes@lemdro.id.
-
No self-promotion spam: Active community members can post their apps if they answer any questions in the comments. Please do not post links to your own website, YouTube, blog content, or communities.
-
No reposts or rehosted content: Share only the original source of an article, unless it's not available in English or requires logging in (like Twitter). Avoid reposting the same topic from other sources.
-
No editorializing titles: You can add the author or website's name if helpful, but keep article titles unchanged.
-
No piracy or unverified APKs: Do not share links or direct people to pirated content or unverified APKs, which may contain malicious code.
-
No unauthorized polls, bots, or giveaways: Do not create polls, use bots, or organize giveaways without first contacting mods for approval.
-
No offensive or low-effort content: Don't post offensive or unhelpful content. Keep it civil and friendly!
-
No affiliate links: Posting affiliate links is not allowed.
Quick Links
Our Communities
- !askandroid@lemdro.id
- !androidmemes@lemdro.id
- !techkit@lemdro.id
- !google@lemdro.id
- !nothing@lemdro.id
- !googlepixel@lemdro.id
- !xiaomi@lemdro.id
- !sony@lemdro.id
- !samsung@lemdro.id
- !galaxywatch@lemdro.id
- !oneplus@lemdro.id
- !motorola@lemdro.id
- !meta@lemdro.id
- !apple@lemdro.id
- !microsoft@lemdro.id
- !chatgpt@lemdro.id
- !bing@lemdro.id
- !reddit@lemdro.id
Lemmy App List
Chat and More
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
It really is. Funny enough, I use the rounded style icons.
I wish there were a different gesture typing library to use... It makes so many annoying incorrect predictions.
load more comments
(3 replies)
FUTO keyboard. Try it. Say bye to gboard.
I periodically try FUTO. It's a great keyboard, except for its swiping support. That seems to be gradually improving, but it isn't quite there yet. Unfortunately that is how I do all my typing, so I keep going back to GBoard. I look forward to leaving it for good.
Ahh. I only use it occasionally. I'm bad at spelling and need the word predictions too much.
load more comments
(3 replies)
No mandarin unfortunately
load more comments
(6 replies)
Try giving us back a fucking physical keyboard. Touchscreens fucking suck.
load more comments
(5 replies)
We didn't ask for the red to pink colour fade on the Youtube playbar either but here we are...
HOLY SHIT. Thank you. That's what that is. I thought my screen was wonky or my eyesight was failing. It's not even really linear, it just looks like the last 3cm of the bar are pink
Huh, TIL that's baked into YouTube. I thought maybe sponsorblock was doing it.
I thought that as well at first, but it was in every video
Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love
Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?
Futo has been my favorite so far compared to other keyboards. I haven't used Heliboard yet, but it also looks like a good option.
Futo works really nice! Glide is pretty decent, though not as good as gboard's. Wish it had custom background images though...
load more comments
(10 replies)
load more comments
(8 replies)
I wanna switch to FOSS alternatives but swiping is either funky (FUTO) or not available for now (Floris). I ended up downgrading gboard to an older version since all this emoji stuff (especially the bitmoji sticker nonsense) really grinds my gears.
Get Heliboard and then download a gesture library such as this: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/blob/master/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libjni_latinimegoogle.so
Heliboard is on F-Droid.
Oh my gosh, I don't think info like this is found anywhere on the internet, thank you.
Thank you so much internet stranger. Just made the switch!
Did you try Heliboard? It can be setup to swipe, though I mostly tap type. When i have used the swipe it has worked well though. I have been using it for over a year now and really like it.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I like this. But this should be an option.
Looks awful
All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.
load more comments
(9 replies)