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Description
HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline. Features:
- Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
- build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
- additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")
- note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
- Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
- can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
- can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
- Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling use system languages)
- Customize special layouts, like symbols, number, or functional key layout
- Multilingual typing
- Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)
- library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available
- can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)
- Clipboard history
- One-handed mode
- Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
- Number pad
- Backup and restore your settings and learned word / history data
What’s new (4.2)
* update shift key icon
* rearrange Arabic punctuation popups and add dotted-circle markers
* add option to toggle hardware keyboard support (still buggy)
* allow clearing recent emojis (long-press emoji or recents icon)
* add regional indicator icons to flag emojis
* add setting for d-pad key (like for emoji key)
* add emojis entered from suggestion to recent emojis
* fix unreachable floating keyboard handles
* fix crash in emoji search
* load .combined wordlists in addition to .dict files
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- READ_USER_DICTIONARY
- Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
- VibrationControl the vibration alert.
- WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY
- Read contactsAccess the address book.
- keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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