I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type “our” and it changes to “out”, I recently typed “purpose” and it changed it to “purple”. Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

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I love Heliboard it is a fork from Openboard. It has themes and is 100% offline

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It’s there a better swiping library for heliboard? The one they suggest is a lot worse than gboard’s.

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I don’t use swiping, I have no clue 😅

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That’s odd, it should be identical. The library linked in their FAQ is a package extracted from Google apps.

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Maybe it’s an old package? The quality is noticeably worse.

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Haven’t used heliboard so I’m not sure if its different but have you tried this one?

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases

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Does it have the things I called out as liking about Gboard?

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  • Customizable, yes
  • Gif, no
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Got it, thanks!

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It’s insanely customizable; you can change all of the special characters to be anything else, as well as their positions.

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Nice. That’s actually even more customizable than I need. How does it do with the correcting correctly spelled words thing?

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How do you change the positions of letters and characters?

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