Release v0.5.0-beta02 · florisboard/florisboard
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What's Changed Add support for reproducible builds by @patrickgold in #2719 Many thanks to Izzy for his assistance with this! Add time based theme switching by @lm41 in #2977 Add support for ph...

Quoting their description:

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

Excerpts from the Changelog:

What’s Changed

This release also marks an important developer milestone, as its release commit is the 2500th commit on the main brach :tada:

Full Changelog: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/compare/v0.5.0-beta01...v0.5.0-beta02

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      I use heliboard and briefly florisboard months ago.

      biggest difference back then is florisboard doesn’t have swipe typing. functionally, like the clipboard, text editing, etc., they are on par IIRC. I like the esthetic and looks on florisboard a lot better but swipe typing is more important to me.

      of note on heliboard’s clipboard, you can set a timer to clear the clipboard.

      if it’s important to you, you can’t search in heliboard’s emoji keyboard.

      I also used FUTO for a while, but I dont really remember much why I disliked it vs heliboard.

      as I finished typing all these, I realized you might be a heliboard user. I’ll just leave it up for others :P

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I used it about a year ago and there was no autocorrect, much less multi-language autocorrect. Do you know if it has changed by now?

        • bonus_crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Using florisboard to type this, swype typing and autocorrect are coming in a future release. Seems like it requires a substantial refactoring. Currently gestures can be mapped to various functions like hiding the keyboard or uppercase.

      • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Swipe typing (and word suggestions) are on the roadmap for Florisboard 0.6 I believe (EDIT: Swipe typing is mapped for 0.7). Though, they were also on the roadmap for 0.5 until recently…

        Florisboard used to have swipe typing, but it just wasn’t really useful without a working suggestion engine, so it’s been disabled.