HeliBoard 3.0-alpha2

Changes since 3.0-alpha1:

• Show TLD popup keys, by @eranl (#1399)
• Switch back to original language after auto-switching due to hint locale, by @unlair (#1410)
• Add Central Kurdish layout, by @GoRaN909 (#1417)
• Update UK and RU standard layouts, and add extended layout, by @Quantom2 (#1215)
• Fix weird issue when adding user-provided glide typing library (#1251)
• Better handling of action key (and popup) backgrounds (#1008)
• Fix some bugs with the new settings, mostly related to the changed way of handling subtypes

[mosty copied from alpha1]
This is the second release after an overhaul of the settings. Most changes only concern the UI, but some parts of the settings now work quite differently (especially languages & layouts and user-defined colors).
You can expect to find some bugs, especially in the new settings. So please make a backup before upgrading to 3.0-alpha2 (when coming from 2.3 at least).

If you're using this version, please look for unexpected / unwelcome changes (mostly in the settings). Potential issues might especially occur with:

• insets (system bars, cutout, ...)
• configuration changes like changing screen orientation
• settings that changed significantly - layouts, user-defined colors, dictionaries
  • concerns both the screens and upgrading without changing layouts or colors
• dialogs (visual glitches, inaccessible parts)
• theme of the new settings (inconsistencies, bad color combinations)

HeliBoard 3.0-alpha1

This is the first release after an overhaul of the settings. Most changes only concern the UI, but some parts of the settings now work quite differently (especially languages & layouts and user-defined colors).
You can expect to find some bugs, especially in the new settings. So please make a backup before upgrading to 3.0-alpha1.

If you're using this version, please look for unexpected / unwelcome changes (mostly in the settings). Potential issues might especially occur with:

• insets (system bars, cutout, ...)
• configuration changes like changing screen orientation
• settings that changed significantly - layouts, user-defined colors, dictionaries
  • concerns both the screens and upgrading without changing layouts or colors
• dialogs (visual glitches, inaccessible parts)
• theme of the new settings (inconsistencies, bad color combinations)

Changes to settings:

• Implemented in Compose instead of "old" view system, allowing for more flexibility (and more convenient development).
• Search function for finding preferences by name or description.
• Different theme - not yet final, contributions welcome.
• You can have multiple user-defined color sets.
• You can have multiple secondary layouts (functional keys, numpad, phone number, ...).
• Languages & layouts settings now show subtypes instead of languages. This allows more flexibility, like configuring multilingual typing or secondary layouts on a per-subtype basis rather than per language.
  • Custom layouts for Latin script can now be shared between languages
• Dictionaries are still per language and don't fit into the new languages & layouts settings, so they have their own settings screen now.

Further changes since 2.3:

• Stricter checks when adding json layouts. Now checks fail for unknown properties, aiding for discovering typos that might break the layout.
• Welcome wizard re-implemented in Compose - does not feel polished enough, contributions welcome.
• Add toolbar key to toggle Split Keyboard, by @PurplePickleMonster (#1218, #1263)
• Improve behavior for language swipe cycling, by @RHJihan / @codokie (#1319)
• Add support for combining accents (Unicode combining diacritical marks) and add some to Greek layout, by @tenextractor (#1240)
• Optionally show popup hints on number row, by @eranl (#1303)
• Add datestamp to backup filename, by @ottosch (#1364)
• Add Hindi Phonetic layout, by @npnpatidar (#1278)
• Add Hebrew 1452-2 layout, by @eranl (#1288)
• Add Arabic Hija'i Layout, by @BinaryQuantumSoul (#1329)
• Add Dargwa (Urakhi) layout by @mekegi (#1127)
• Adjust Bengali Unijoy layout, by @RHJihan (#1321, #1369)
• Improved Bengali Probhat Layout, by @RHJihan (#1382, #1397)
• Added Bengali (India)/Baishakhi layout, by @RHJihan (#1373, #1396)
• Update existing bn-IN layout, by @RHJihan (#1374)
• Add schwa ə for Italian, by @restuccia (#1275)
• Fix link to license file, by @zyachel (#1315)
• Add new groupId -1 for json layouts, allows suppressing additional popups (#1243)
• Add setting to autocorrect shortcuts (#1287)
• Allow setting background image for landscape and portrait separately (#798)
• Add setting for adjusting bottom padding in landscape mode (#??)
• Add side padding scale setting (#1309)
• Allow using user-provided font (#494)
• Add font scale setting (#1149)
• Upgrade emojis to Unicode 16.0
• Use different handling in browsers when pressing backspace but there is nothing before the cursor (#1337)
• Fix crash when using multiTextKey in popups (#1376)
• Fix deletion of pasted text on backspace (#1019)
• Prevent selected text being the first suggestion when overwriting with glide typing (#1284)
• Fix some minor bugs

Sha256 of APKs
release: 0c77b80db000a3c7c7db4a6dc797ebd8fcf6fc477055e97ba61db55eb788a1f7
nouserlib: 314668f7445b0882fc886586fcddff8c99301dbbb7d4a1d8198e31484814b1d5
debug: a27838adfc001ddab180c2fa780b973fc6bb16061db70b51d16b74521160710a

HeliBoard 2.3

Changes since 2.3-beta1:

• revert fix for #994 due to it introducing other issues (#1281, #1268)
• fix broken width of emoji & clipboard bottom rows in one-handed mode
• fix system bar handling in Android 15 (#1186)
• add missing letter in Catalan layout (#1176)
• prepare for adding unicode 15.1 and 16.0 emojis

HeliBoard 2.3-beta1

Changes since 2.2:

• Allow customizing number row (#558)
• Allow customizing spacebar text (#956, #875)
• Allow customizing bottom row for emoji and clipboard views (#966, #850, #593, #404)
• Allow customizing toolbar codes (#1110, see KeyCodes.kt for codes, though only the ones in checkAndConvertCode are allowed)
• Allow customizing icons (#1110)
• Disable remove redundant popups by default and make it work on non-functional keys only (#1052 and others)
• Decouple icon style from keyboard style
• Update Ukrainian Layout, by @SkeLLLa (#1038)
• Less aggressive addition of words to personal dictionary
• Do not vibrate in do not disturb mode (#1125)
• Improve performance when copying large amounts of text (#1236)
• Do not switch keyboard language if secondary language matches (#1181)
• Properly reload custom layouts on restoring backup (#1235)
• Fix labels of removed popups remaining visible
• Fix Hindi characters in Hinglish layout (#305)
• Fix some of the issues where text is duplicated (#1141)
• Fix partially broken punctuation popups (#1062 and others)
• Fix esc and numpad not working in custom keys (#1009)
• Fix caps mode of selected text being changed by more symbols key (#1256)
• More improvements and bug fixes
• Update translations

HeliBoard 2.2

Changes since 2.2-beta1:

• add visual options for gesture typing, by @devycarol (#944)
• update some icons, by @BlackyHawky (#977)

HeliBoard 2.2-beta1

Note from maintainer: I will be away for the next 3 weeks, and only rarely have time for issues, PRs and development.

Changes since 2.1:

• make arrow keys on keyboard repeatable, by @devycarol (#932)
• more cursor toolbar keys (page up/down(/start/end, word left/right), by @devycarol (#933)
• add paste key, by @devycarol (#945)
• add clipboard suggestion for recently copied text, by @codokie (#647)
• improve key swipe behavior, by @devycarol (#919)
• add ability for saving / exporting custom themes
• adjust language dependent popup keys, partially by @clmbmb and @glemco (#659, #921, #824)
• add space swipe setting to toggle numpad, by @devycarol (#950)
• de-select text on pressing select keys again, by @devycarol (#973)
• tune some colors in settings for Android 12+, by @BlackyHawky (#975)
• add setting when to switch to main view after edding emoji, clip or symbol (#546)
• minor fixes and improvements (#912, #952, ...)

HeliBoard 2.1

Changes since 2.0:

• fix broken functional key layout for tablets
• only show language switch key when there is something to switch to (#897)
• make default colors for "all colors" setting random instead of gray (#903)
• allow customizing start lag for gestures during typing, by @devycarol (#882, #894)
• allow customizing currency keys (#353)
• reduce long-press time for shift -> caps lock, by @devycarol (#924, #923)
• extend superscript popups in number row and symbols layout, by @b02860de585071a2 (#902, #901)
• minor fixes and improvements

Heliboard 2.0

Changes since 2.0-beta2:

• fix update breaking toolbar keys (does not fix it if you used beta2, you will have to restore your toolbar manually or import settings from before beta2)
• fix missing translations due to build ignoring settings
• improve language switch key guard against accidental touch (#630)
• increase allowed split distance (#869)
• add keyboard_state_selector for json layouts, allows accessing emoji and language key settings, and whether keyboard shows main (alphabet), symbols and shift symbols view
• fix crash with currency key popup (#881)
• clarify error messages when layout can't be saved (#887)
• improve popup key handling (#883)
• block space and delete swipe during sliding input, by @devycarol (#892, #895)
• fix phantom space after double quotes, by @codokie (#840, #842)

Further changes since 1.3:

• add emoji toolbar key, by @codokie (#845, #837)
• improvements regarding duplicated letters (#225 and maybe others)
• avoid positioning cursor inside emojis (#859)
• allow customizing functional key layouts
  • when you used the experimental functionality of customizing symbol and number layouts, you may have a broken layout now
• slightly adjust symbols and more symbols layouts
• add options to auto-show/hide toolbar, by @codokie (#674)
• add toast notification when copying text, by @codokie (#752)
• separate language switch key behavior from enablement
• add comma key popups for number and phone layouts (#823)
• make long-press pinning in toolbar optional
• move toolbar settings to a separate section
• add tab key
• understand toolbar key labels in layouts
• add primary quotation marks for Norwegian bokmål, by @knutid
  (#806, #805)
• update Hebrew layout, by @codokie / @russianspy1234 (#735, #738)
• add basic support for modifier keys (alt, ctrl, meta and fn)
  • currently there is no way of locking the keys, so you need to hold the key and press another key at the same time (like on a hardware keyboard)
    add the keys on the right side of the keyboard
• add long press functions to more toolbar keys, by @codokie (#691,#686)
• and more clipboard history toolbar keys, by @codokie (#691)
• make clipboard history toolbar customizable
• allow customizing all internally used colors (#529)
• add setting to always show word to be enterd as middle suggestion, by @Volterxien and @codokie (#739, #672, #658)
• add caps lock indicator and slightly adjust shift icons, by @codokie (#692, #683)
• add Piedmontese, by @glemco (#748)
• add Eastern Mari, by @ViZiD (#755)
• add Mansi, by @tenextractor (#791)
• add extended layout for Kannada, by @pixincreate (#444)
• add extended layout for Hungarian, by @tenextractor (#774)
• fix issues with clipboard when quickly switching between keyboard apps, by @codokie (#728)
• fix cut off text in key preview popup on some devices, by @codokie (#744, #712, #166)
• fix Russian Students layout, by @markokocic (#763)
• fix custom action key label exceeding bounds of background when not using key borders (#750)
• fix missing diacritics for Esperanto multilingual typing (#740)
• other minor improvements and fixes of unreported bugs

HeliBoard 2.0-beta2

Only few changes since the last beta, but contains a few fixes of old bugs that could potentially cause regressions.

Changes since 2.0-beta1:

• add emoji toolbar key, by @codokie (#845, #837)
• improvements regarding duplicated letters (#225 and maybe others)
• avoid positioning cursor inside emojis (#859)
• minor fixes for recently added features (#848 and more)

HeliBoard 2.0-beta1

Due to high activity in this repository and little available time from my side, the pile-up of pull requests and unanswered issues is going to increase further. Sorry, but I currently don't have enough time for everyone.

Changes since 2.0-alpha1:

• allow customizing functional key layouts
• slightly adjust symbols and more symbols layouts
• add options to auto-show/hide toolbar, by @codokie (#674)
• add toast notification when copying text, by @codokie (#752)
• separate language switch key behavior from enablement
• add comma key popups for number and phone layouts (#823)
• make long-press pinning in toolbar optional
• move toolbar settings to a separate section
• add tab key
• understand ctrl/alt/fn/meta key labels in layouts
• understand toolbar key labels in layouts
• add primary quotation marks for Norwegian bokmål, by @knutid
  (#806, #805)
• update Hebrew layout, by @codokie / @russianspy1234 (#735, #738)
• minor fixes and improvements