**This is mostly a development version. On updates there may be changes that reset some settings. Consider all releases as beta quality at best and always have another keyboard installed in case of really bad bugs.**
* get them [here]( https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries#dictionaries), or in the [experimental](https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries#experimental-dictionaries) section (quality may vary)
* additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions ("emoji search")
* note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using [this dictionary](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/commit/83fca9533c03b9fecc009fc632577226bbd6301f), the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
* Adjust keyboard themes (style and colors)
* can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
* Split keyboard (if the screen is large enough)
* Number row
* Number pad
* Show all available extra characters on long pressing a key
* When using debug APK, you can find Debug Settings within the Advanced Preferences, though the usefulness is limited except for dumping dictionaries into the log.
* Suggestions will have some tiny numbers on top showing some internal score and source dictionary (can be disabled)
* For users doing manual backups with root access: Starting at Android 7, the shared preferences file is not in the default location, because the app is using [device protected storage](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context#createDeviceProtectedStorageContext()). This is necessary so the settings can be read before the device is unlocked, e.g. at boot. The file is located in `/data/user_de/0/package_id/shared_prefs/`, though this may depend on the device and Android version.
* some AOSP dictionaries are available [here](https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries/src/branch/main/dictionaries)
* experimental dictionaries with next-word suggestions created from sentence lists [are also available](https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries/src/branch/main/dictionaries_experimental), but they may contain unwanted words, and may be missing other features
* emoji dictionaries can be used to get emoji suggestions
* Fixes / improvements regarding suggestions
* Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open (suggestions get re-added if they are entered again)
* based on [wordmage's work](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00)
* tested with [Google libraries](https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/master/app/src/main/jniLibs) and [others](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues/3#issuecomment-1200456262) (when building with the [rename](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/tree/57d33791d7674e3fe0600eddb72f6b4317b5df00))
* Remove suggestions by long pressing on suggestion strip while the more suggestions popup is open, https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues/106
* suggestions get re-added if they are entered again
* Fix issue with spell checker incorrectly flagging words before a period as wrong on newer Android versions, https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/pull/679
* Fix bug with space before word being deleted in some apps / input fields, https://github.com/Helium314/openboard/commit/ce0bf06545c4547d3fc5791cc769508db0a89e87
* Allow using auto theme on some devices with Android 9
* New keyboard parser (no need to use `tools:make-keyboard-text:makeText` any more)
* Can use simple text files or JSON files as used by [FlorisBoard](https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/tree/master/app/src/main/assets/ime/keyboard/org.florisboard.layouts/layouts)
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Whether you encountered a bug, or want to see a new feature in OpenBoard, you can contribute to the project by opening a new issue [here](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues). Your help is always welcomed !
Before opening a new issue, be sure to check the following :
- **Does the issue already exist ?** Make sure a similar issue has not been reported by browsing [existing issues](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues).
- **Is the issue still relevant ?** Make sure your issue is not already fixed in the latest version of OpenBoard.
- **Did you use the issue template ?** It is important to make life of our kind contributors easier by avoiding issues that miss key informations to their resolution.
*Please avoid opening issues to ask for a release date, for PR reviews/merges, for more activity on the project, or worth for more contributors. If you have any interrogations on these topics, read [this comment](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues/619#issuecomment-1179534276) from issue [#619](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/issues/619).*
To create or update a dictionary for your language, you can use [this tool](https://github.com/remi0s/aosp-dictionary-tools). You will need a wordlist, as described [here](dictionaries/sample.combined). The output .dict file must be put in [res/raw](app/src/main/res/raw), and its wordlist in [dictionaries](/dictionaries).
For your dictionary to be merged into OpenBoard, **you must provide the wordlist you used**, as well as its license if any.
## Code contribution
### Getting started
OpenBoard project is based on Gradle and Android Gradle Plugin. To get started, you'll just need to install [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio), and import project 'from Version Control / Git / Github' by providing this git repository [URL](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard) (or git SSH [URL](git@github.com:openboard-team/openboard.git)).
Once everything got setted up correctly, you're ready to go !
- **Uses already in-place mechanism and take advantage of them**. In other terms, does not reinvent the wheel or uses shortcuts that could alter the consistency of the existing code.
- **Has the lowest footprint possible**. OpenBoard code has been written by android experts (AOSP/Google engineers). It has been tested and runned on millions of devices. Thus, **existing code will always be safer than new code**. The less we alter existing code, the more OpenBoard will stay stable. Especially in the input logic scope.
- **Does not bring any non-free code or proprietary binary blobs**. This also applies to code/binaries with unknown licenses. Make sure you do not introduce any closed-source library from Google.
Keyboards content is often a complex concatenation of data from global to specific locales. For example, additional keys of a given key, also known as 'more keys' in code, are determined by concatenating infos from : common additional keys for a layout (eg. numbers), global locale (eg. common symbols) and specific locale (eg. accents or specific letters).
To edit these infos, you'll need to generate the [KeyboardTextsTable.java](app/src/main/java/org/dslul/openboard/inputmethod/keyboard/internal/KeyboardTextsTable.java) file.
To do so :
1. Make your modifications in [tools/make-keyboard-text/src/main/resources](tools/make-keyboard-text/src/main/resources)/values-YOUR LOCALE.
2. Generate the new version of [KeyboardTextsTable.java](app/src/main/java/org/dslul/openboard/inputmethod/keyboard/internal/KeyboardTextsTable.java) by running Gradle task 'makeText' :
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