google gboard was able to autocorrect both o my languages without me needing to switch the language. wondering if there’s a keyboard that’s open source and can do the same. on open board rn

  • @[email protected]
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    910 months ago

    HeliBoard is amazing, I recommend it! For those wondering how to enable simultaneous multi-lingual support (i.e. swipe or text in both languages and get predictions in both languages), I explained it in this comment chain, and included a screenshot for reference:

    https://lemm.ee/comment/9410038

    I tried both, AnySoftKeyboard was a bit too much effort and took me longer to type on unfortunately. HeliBoard was a nice replacement for SwiftKey for me though.

    • strawberryOP
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      310 months ago

      yup, this is the solution, as someone else pointed out too

      działa dobrze :) (works well)

    • @SendMePhotos
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      210 months ago

      SwiftKey user here. Been around for 10+ years. Why did you switch to HeliBoard?

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Same here actually, ~10 years too lol, since my first Android. SwiftKey worked very well (for me at least) but its owned by Microsoft, which gathers user data. I’ve been making a switch to FOSS apps and trying to degoogle myself in the recent months.

        It was hard for me to leave SwiftKey due to other options being unsatisfactory / other keyboards always missing something, but HeliBoard did the trick for me :)

        • @SendMePhotos
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          310 months ago

          Awesome. We should be friends, we have so much in common. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      Whilst Heliboard is technically capable of doing the job, the dictionaries are pretty lacking. If anybody has any recommendations regarding those? Swiftkey is pretty bad at recommendations and autocorrect, especially multi language, Heliboard is much worse.

      • strawberryOP
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        110 months ago

        yes better dictionaries would be good

        lmk if u find some pls