I use heliboard for about a year now but it keeps getting on my nerves. One thing is the lack of an useful german dictionary(latest version is from 2014) and word suggestions are just terrible.
Is there a way to update, merge or export the dictionaries of heliboard fork by Iodé? The words are spread onto three different dictionaries and I only can edit them word by word. Tried it from within heliboard and from android settings, neither worked for me.
Auto suggestions are also not good even with personalized suggestions on.
How do you cope with that? Do you use alternative keyboards like florisboard or did you went back to gboard
I need a multilingual keyboard, so I use microsoft swiftkey, install all the needed languages, and then from the iodé blocker remove the app’s access to the network.
Absolutely. I wouldn’t use either Gboard or swiftkey without taking away all network permissions. Here’s hoping futo keyboard gets better multilingual support soon.
So how are autocorrect suggestions, etc., w/o network. Are they still better than open alternatives? (yes I like Futo too but don’t have as many needs for multilingual)
afaik all keyboards work offline, otherwise people would notice very quickly and change.
“Better” is very subjective. A good principle is to try FLOSS software alternatives and see if they work for you first. Often people are using proprietary spyware like gboard because it was the default and that’s what they got used to more so than it’s inherently better. The nice thing about instaling an OS like iodé is that you already get a curated selection of free and open source software. On android stock there is NO ability to stop the default (gboard) from accessing the network, afaik, google is logging finger speed, patterns, spellling mistakes, everything, they even know if you’re sober or not!.
