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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard
Owner: openboard-team
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2019-12-31T17:17:45.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-05-16T16:55:59.000Z (6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-06-18T04:37:55.720Z (5 months ago)
Language: Java
Homepage:
Size: 84.7 MB
Stars: 2,495
Watchers: 53
Forks: 250
Open Issues: 418
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        
OpenBoard

100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP.



























  

# Table of content

- [Community](#community)

- [Contribution ❤](#contribution-)

   * [Issue reporting](#issue-reporting)

   * [Translation](#translation)

   * [Dictionary creation](#dictionary-creation)

   * [Code contribution](#code-contribution)

      + [Getting started](#getting-started)

      + [Guidelines](#guidelines)

      + [Current TODO list](#current-todo-list)

      + [Project's side tools](#tooling)

- [License](#license)

- [Credits](#credits)

# Community

Join our [matrix] channel [here](https://matrix.to/#/#openboard:matrix.org?via=matrix.org).



# Contribution ❤

## Issue reporting

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).*

## Translation

You can help in translating OpenBoard in your language through our [Weblate project](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/openboard/).

[![Translation status](https://hosted.weblate.org/widgets/openboard/-/openboard/287x66-grey.png)](https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/openboard/)

## Dictionary creation

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]([email protected]:openboard-team/openboard.git)).

Once everything got setted up correctly, you're ready to go !

### Guidelines

OpenBoard is a complex application, when contributing, you must take a step back and make sure your contribution :

- **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.

- **Complies with the user privacy principle OpenBoard follows**. 

In addition to previous elements, OpenBoard must stick to [F-Droid inclusion guidelines](https://f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_Policy/).

### Current TODO list

In no particular order, here is the non-exhaustive list of known wanted features :

- [x] ~~Updated emoji support~~

- [ ] MaterialYou ([M3](https://m3.material.io/)) support

- [x] ~~One-handed mode feature~~

- [ ] Android [autofill](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/ime-autofill) support

- [x] ~~Clipboard history feature~~

- [ ] Text navigation/selection panel

- [ ] Multi-locale typing

- [ ] Emoji search

- [ ] Emoji variant saving

- [ ] Glide typing

### Tooling

#### Edit keyboards content

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' :

    ```sh

    ./gradlew tools:make-keyboard-text:makeText

    ```

   

#### Update emojis

See make-emoji-keys tool [README](tools/make-emoji-keys/README.md).

# License

OpenBoard project is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.

 > Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights.

See repo's [LICENSE](/LICENSE) file.

# Credits

- Icon by [Marco TLS](https://www.marcotls.eu)

- [AOSP Keyboard](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/)

- [LineageOS](https://review.lineageos.org/admin/repos/LineageOS/android_packages_inputmethods_LatinIME)

- [Simple Keyboard](https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard)

- [Indic Keyboard](https://gitlab.com/indicproject/indic-keyboard)

- Our [contributors](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard/graphs/contributors)