Heliboard goes into 1.0

TheFrirish@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 318 points –
Releases ยท Helium314/HeliBoard
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The successor of Openboard, Heliboard finally comes out in 1.0 my favorite open source keyboard out there.

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TLDR: Why do I stop using OpenBoard and use this instead :)?

Openboard hasn't updated in a year and a half

But how often do I need to update my keyboard lol?

If you're satisfied with it, you don't need to update. But Openboard lacks a lot of features many people want. The biggest of them is probably the glide typing, which Heliboard supports. And it also added a lot of quality of life improvements.

Some new features, bug fixes, and ongoing support.

It is a new application so you do have to set it up fresh - don't switch until you have a bit of spare time. Missed the back and restore button in settings.

Personally I'm on one of the fork's beta versions. I'm waiting for the f-droid release so I get updates.

It has swipe typing plus a lot of other new features/theme customisation that openboard didn't have.