HeliBoard
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The app complies with the inclusion criteria -
The app is not already listed in the repo or issue tracker. -
The original app author has been notified (and does not oppose the inclusion). -
Donated to support the maintenance of this app in F-Droid.
Link to the source code:
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard (default branch is main)
Link to app in another app store:
None
License used:
GPL 3.0
Original AOSP Keyboard uses Apache 2.0 license, but as far as I understand it's still allowed to publish the app as GPL 3.0.
Category:
Writing I guess? I wasn't able to find the category of other keyboard apps on any of the app's pages.
Summary:
An opensource keyboard that does not spy on you!
[This gets picked up from fastlane, right? It's likely to change soon]
Description:
HeliBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP / OpenBoard, that respects your privacy.
Features:
- Add your own dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
- Customizable themes and background
- Customizable layouts
- Multilingual typing
- Emojis
- Glide typing (only with closed source library)
This app is open source, the code is available here: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
[This gets picked up from fastlane, right? It's likely to change soon]
Other:
This app is a fork of OpenBoard, but with the changed namespace and package name there is no issue when having both installed.
The current version 1.0-alpha1 should not be published on F-Droid, as a) there are some potential issues after change of package name and b) the app still does not have its own icons.
There are a few things to be clarified / checked first anyway, which is why I already opened this issue:
- Is the build reproducible? APK for 1.0-alpha1 is here, code here
- The app allows the user to provide a library for gesture typing, which is likely going the be a version of the closed source "swype libs" that are included in some GApps packages. There is also some code for an open source variant around on GitHub, but without any license info. Is this acceptable, or does it qualify for some (security or non-free) anti-feature?