Quoting their description:
An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.
Excerpts from the Changelog:
What’s Changed
- Add support for reproducible builds by @patrickgold in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2719
- Many thanks to Izzy for his assistance with this!
- Add time based theme switching by @lm41 in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2977
- Add support for physical keyboard settings by @lm41 in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2981
- Fix files with spaces causing UI issues by @patrickgold in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2982
- Remove checks for api 26 by @lm41 in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2972
- Update ROADMAP.md by @lm41 in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2980
- Update README.md by @patrickgold in https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2984
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
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
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.
Feel like they’ve said swipe is coming forever. I like the project but have went to heliboard for swiping.
yeah, makes sense that turn it off
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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?
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.