HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline.
Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
Customize keyboard themes (style, colors, and background image)
Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling system languages)
Multilingual typing
Glide typing (only with closed-source library ☹️)
Clipboard history
One-handed mode
Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
Number pad
Backup and restore your learned word/history data
Features that may go unnoticed, and further potentially useful information
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I can’t find this on f-droid for some reason…
I had the same problem using droid-ify until I uninstalled openboard for some reason. (Technically I uninstalled the fork that has since turned into helibord, but it was called open board also before they renamed it for f-droid release, so it still showed up as open board in droid-ify, just a newer version)
It did show up in the normal f-droid app for me though
Confusing… I’m currently using openboard; does that mean I’m actually using heliboard?
Someone forked the project (made a copy and started making updates and improvements to the copy independent of the original developer) and I installed it directly from the forked github repo, where it was getting updates. But they didn’t rename it until they published it on f-droid, so the app still showed up as openboard on my phone, just a newer version than the one available on f-droid
It’s a fork.