Heliboard 1.2 Released, Fixes Haptic Feedback Bug

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Heliboard 1.2 has just released. This version fixes a bug with certain Android devices not providing haptic feedback or audio feedback.

Thanks devs!

Heliboard V1.2

[Edited] Ironically my keyboard auto corrected its own name to "helipad." Embarrassing 😵‍💫

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With the ability to set bottom padding and the vibration issues being fixed. I feel like it is a good replacement for FlorisBoard.

My favorite new feature here is vertically swiping the spacebar for vertical cursor movement. Not as good as iOS's spacebar cursor implementation, but a welcome improvement over that of any other Android keyboard I have tried.

Oh that was fast. I just tried it and switched back to my default because of the bug.

I'll try it again 😛

Edit:

Looks good! Hello from HeliBoard

I had to uninstall and reinstall to fix the issue (updating with the new APK didn't work). I'll try it out a few days and see how it goes.

Is there a list somewhere of other stuff that's being worked on? Some I'd enjoy:

  • better emoji support this looks OK, I was looking in the wrong place
  • gif insertion
  • on device translation while typing

Just figured out yesterday that OpenBoard is abandoned and jumped over to Heliboard, thanks to the announcement for 1.0 in this community. The top comment mentioning FUTO Voice Input, was also a great find.
The only annoying part is that I now have to retrain my recommendations for HB, since OB unlike HB, offers no way to extract your settings, and I found no method to access the settings files in newer Android. Thankfully, since HB offers import/export, it will be the last time.

Feedback: Review the red underline incorrect assignment to correct words from secondary keyboards. For example, if we have English keyboard as the primary keyboard with its own dictionary the words don't get underlined red. If we change to a secondary keyboard, like for example Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc... and they have their own dictionaries, no matter if the word is correct it will get underlined in red like if is incorrect when it is not.

I just wish the autocorrect would work...at the moment there is zero difference when I change how aggressive it is in the settings, and it barely makes any suggestions or corrections to typos.