Pixel 7 Keyboard

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On my Pixel 7, I have the Heliboard 3.6 keyboard. iodé22
I find that it doesn’t work very well.
How do I upgrade or replace it?
Other than that, the Pixel 7 is very nice.

Thanks

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Heliboard works just fine for me, but if you are not satisfied with it, you could use alternatives. A very short forum search found me
https://keyboard.futo.org or
Textra (Aurora)

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There are many Heliboard settings such as configuring text correction (saving words, etc.), configuring dictionaries, layout options, appearance, etc: I would suggest digging into them (when the keyboard is active, tap the > in the keyboard header then the “gear”) and see if they can address some of your frustrations.

But yes as @MissPiggy notes there are several alternatives. I hear Futo is good but is not technically free (they strongly encourage you to pay for it if you use it - but I am personally happy to pay for good open software), or others such as “Fossify Keyboard (Beta)” from F-Droid.

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Yes, there are a lot of settings.
What bothers me the most is that every time I want to enter text, the line with all the little icons appears.
It hides the suggestions area.
If I hide this series of icons with “>,” as soon as I press Return, it comes back.

I wonder how to fix this. Thanks

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The more I read about the apps you can install, the more I think I’m NOT going to try to install anything else on my Pixel7
But is it possible to upgrade or reinstall Heilboard?
I think I’m having some minor issues, but they’re annoying.

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Try reset the app: android settings, apps, all apps, find heliboard: delete both: cache and content …

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It’s strange, but I can’t find this app following the path you propose.

But on FDroid I see that I use the last version. Does it make sense to reinstall without doing anything else?

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Yes, in F-Droid, I would look in categories - apps for IodéOS - heliboard - first …

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I believe those settings are under “Toolbar” such as “Auto hide toolbar”, etc.

But to your question about resetting heliboard entirely, are you looking under your “Android System Settings > Apps > All Apps” as @volker01 notes? Let us know what level of that path you are stuck at.

After reset, for your future self there is an “Advanced > Backup and Restore” in Heliboard Settings for after you make settings changes you LIKE and want to save them or copy them to another device, etc.

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I see that the app is still available in F-Doid. But on my phone I have the latest version.
I tried to erase and dowload again, but I can’t find the app on my phone when I go to Setting/applications/ all app …

It’s really strange

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What is iodé22? Version 7?

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Nein. Die aktuelle Version von Heliboard heißt 3.6-iode.22

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The iodé version of Heliboard is a “light fork” with some adjustments, here is the source: os / apps / HeliBoard · GitLab. As a fork, then, you will see 2 entries in F-Droid for it (the upstream one and the “iodé version”, which was just updated today to version 3,7-iode.23). As the “iodé” version is installed at the “system level” it can’t be removed from F-Droid.

Instead it would be removed via “Preinstalled Apps”, which maybe you did? If so that would explain it not showing in “System Settings > Apps > All Apps”?

But if you didn’t remove it from “Preinstalled Apps”, then can you search for it in “All Apps” or maybe “3 dots > Show system” then search there (but there is an issue if it is only there).