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What's the best open source keyboard for android? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: Thanks, guys! I ended up downloading Heliboard from f-droid :)

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Heliboard which is an active fork of OpenBoard.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've been using it for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren't as good of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've been using it for about a year now. It's a little frustrating that it will learn my misspellings before it suggests a proper replacement, but otherwise I have no complaints. Direct upgrade over the stock AOSP keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I've had the same problem with HeliBoard learning garbage. I just changed my settings though, and I think it should help:

Open HeliBoard settings
Open Text correction settings
Scroll all the way to the bottom, and turn off "Add words to personal dictionary"

If you scroll all the way to the top again, you can manually manage the personal dictionary, including adding words you do want, and deleting any junk that was added by mistake, before switching that setting off.