v62.0
Killer Features
v62.0 brings awesome new features, such as Mind Reader (next-word prediction and autocomplete), word editing while typing, the ability to add extra letters for the 2-9 keys, higher limits for importing words from files, an option to send chat messages with one key press, as well as many bug fixes and other small improvements.
Note: Due to technical problems, this version will not be published on F-droid.
What's new?
- Languages
- Added IKEA, OLX, and iOS to all Latin and Cyrillic languages
- Bugs
- Fixed the press-and-hold hotkey functions not working after manual reassignment
- Fixed: It was not possible to type emojis and currency symbols in WhatsApp sometimes (#1110)
- Fixed the UI sometimes not coming back after being hidden by app request (for example, when the app shows an emoji panel, etc) (#1110)
- Fixed a crash when setting the composing text to NULL
- Fixed Fn key reordering not working (v59.0 regression)
- Fixed a crash when updating dictionaries or when displaying "new update available" notifications
- Fixed the Upside-down setting, causing the hold functions of the on-screen keys to become inverted
- Fixed character sorting for 0 and 1 working for English only
- Fixed characters that are swapped between 0 and 1, not being displayed in email fields
- Optimized suggestion committing for smoother typing in Firefox, especially in 123 mode (#1102, #942)
- Improvements
- Added Mind Reader (next-word prediction and autocomplete) (#851). Thanks so much to @maverick74 for testing.
- Added Word Editing, allowing to edit words in-place, while typing, and also to compose new words more easily. Thanks to @maverick74 and @Crash9999 for testing
- Added an option to increase the import limits for CSV files
- Added options to add extra letters for the 2-9 (#1031)
- Added an option to send messages in chat apps with a single key press.
- Added 200 ms and 300 ms options for the Accidental Key Repeat Protection option
- Improved accessibility actions and announcements
- Added Automatic Capitals After Newline option for ABC mode (#1037)
- Added more function keys and physical hotkeys: "hide keyboard", "show emojis", "toggle predictive mode", "next language"
- Added cut, copy, and paste to the possible swipe commands
- The status bar now displays dictionary loading errors, completely removing the notifications on Android 13+
- Enabled edge-to-edge (background blending with the system navigation bar) on Android 12-14
- Updated the documentation
- Technical
- Upgraded gradle 8.14.3 -> 9.4.1 (hopefully fixes #1098)
- Upgraded com.android.application 8.13.2 -> 9.2.1
- Removed some deprecated code
- Default hotkeys are now stored in a resource file rather than being hardcoded in the Java code
- Migrated almost all commands from the handlers to the Command classes
- DataStore and SQLite errors are now properly logged
Full Changelog: v61.0...v62.0