Over the years I’ve tested out pretty much all the Android keyboards, but swipe typing always kept me on GBoard, even though GBoard did not support voice typing for anything except Google, so I had to switch keyboards for that.
Recently I learned that HeliBoard has support for gesture typing with the Google library. But I couldn’t find any instructions on where to get the necessary files or how to do it. Well, someone posted a link to the file elsewhere so I’ll share it here. And it works! Extremely well. I can also pin a button for voice typing and then select Transcribro for that (which uses OpenAI Whisper locally and works super well.
Another gripe I had with GBoard was the cursor moves way too fast when swiping on the space bar. Not so with Heliboard. You can also swipe backwards from the backspace key and it will highlight text and then delete it when you let go.
That’s why I mentioned the Google swipe library
Im using the google swype library but its still god-awful compared to gboard.
My issue, and it took me a long time to figure it out was that, I’m so used to Gboard and I’ve been using it so long, that it’s muscle memory. Changing the bottom padding and some of the other settings to make it closer to the gboard layout helped so very much.
I’ll have to play with it more. What are your settings?
Pixel 8
Keyboard height 109%
Bottom padding default 147%
Everything else I believe is default as far as scales.
Awesome, thanks. I’ll give it a try
Good luck! I still have to change things more then Google keyboard but it’s definitely improved