Glide typing

[BabyOilJohnson]

Adding a toggle on/off button for glide typing will be good for ux.
Like this Fork.

[Helium314]

Is the switch in Gesture Typing settings section in preferences bad ux?

[BabyOilJohnson]

It will be nice.

[BabyOilJohnson]

Thanks for added the feature 🙏, by the by can u also add the gesture typing library built-in with app so the users don't have to download 😅.

[Helium314]

I can, but as far as I know I have to add a closed-source library, or add one without any license. Both is not compatible with FOSS, and will not allow publishing the app on F-Droid.
Or adapt/develop some library, but that's nothing I want to spend my time on.

[BabyOilJohnson]

Oh ok, thanks for the reply.
Closing the issue

[BabyOilJohnson]

Florisboard also has inbuilt glide typing and this PR (I think so) is the one they used to implement it.

[BabyOilJohnson]

Florisboard also has inbuilt glide typing and this PR (I think so) is the one they used to implement it.

@Helium314 can you check on their repo, how they are doing?

[Helium314]

Well, to actually make use of this it I would need to tranlsate it to C++ and add it to the library.
Should be doable, but likely a lot of work, especially since I haven't done much C++ programming.

Alternatively we could just take their approach in kotlin, but then the dictionaries need to be made accessible by glide typing (currently accessed via the C++ library only).

[Carter0108]

So how on earth do you enable glide typing? I've loaded the library but there's no toggle to enable. I've been searching for nearly an hour and losing my mind!

[BlackyHawky]

So how on earth do you enable glide typing? I've loaded the library but there's no toggle to enable. I've been searching for nearly an hour and losing my mind!

Right here:

[Carter0108]

Interesting. I don't have that option.

[BlackyHawky]

Interesting. I don't have that option.

What is your phone ?

[syphyr]

You have to load google's glide typing library first, to get the glide typing option in openboard's settings. The library has to be the specific version mentioned in openboard's setup guide.

[Carter0108]

You have to load google's glide typing library first, to get the glide typing option in openboard's settings. The library has to be the specific version mentioned in openboard's setup guide.

Yes I've already done that but the only difference is I now have the option to delete that library.

Interesting. I don't have that option.

What is your phone ?

Pixel 7.

[BlackyHawky]

Try this file (for arm64 only) but I can't guarantee that it will work.

libjni_latinimegoogle.zip

[pixincreate]

Well I did extract GBoard's gesture typing library today and I believe it is consistently updated as I found it to predict better than an year old version which is mentioned in the readme.

I also don't think you'll be publishing the app to f-droid anytime soon, so why not add the library? Also, there are many projects that use proprietary libs which are existent on f-droid, why would this project be an exception to not be considered?

libjni_latinimegoogle.so.zip

[syphyr]

Well I did extract GBoard's gesture typing library today and I believe it is consistently updated as I found it to predict better than an year old version which is mentioned in the readme.

I was just looking for Google's gesture typing library in Android 14 and Android 13 Pixel images and I could not find it in there. I also looked in the latest Gboard apk files and it was not included in that either. Where can I find the latest library version?

[pixincreate]

Glad you asked. I extracted it from latest build of nikgapps (GBoard only addon).
If you've root access, you can grab from installed dir as well.

[syphyr]

Yeah but I'm asking about the original source.

[Helium314]

libjni_latinimegoogle.so.zip

This file is identical to the arm64-v8a version linked in the readme, just try diffing.

Moreover, the version linked in the readme is likely to be considerably older than just one year. I can only speak for the armeabi-v7a version, but this one is identical to what I've had on my phone for (I guess) 5 years.

[pixincreate]

Yeah but I'm asking about the original source.

Might have to did in through Google's codebase. But thou can easily get it extracted through nikgapps add-on.

This file is identical to the arm64-v8a version linked in the readme, just try diffing.

Yea, I uploaded arm64's gesture typing lib

Moreover, the version linked in the readme is likely to be considerably older than just one year. I can only speak for the armeabi-v7a version, but this one is identical to what I've had on my phone for (I guess) 5 years.

The reason why I bought this up is that after I loaded latest GBoard lib, I started getting better prediction. Yes, I do agree that the improvement is not too big of a difference given that GBoard has other ML stuff baked in that improves the experience.