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@jfml @latenightlinux ALRIGHT i've been digging around in the settings for heliboard, and there is currently implemented support for something approaching emoji search by prefacing your text with a : colon, not unlike what i use when shitposting on mastodon. it's a toggle switch in the heliboard settings called "Inline emoji search". you enable that and it will show a popup to go download an emoji dictionary from a repo on codeberg, after which you install the dictionary on the keyboard itself by navigating to Dictionaries -> "Add dictionary from file" inside the heliboard settings app

tl;dr - looks like they have emoji search

@jfml @latenightlinux this pull request looks pertinent. i swear i pasted the link in the first iteration of this post

Add emoji search by eranl · Pull Request #1765 · Helium314/HeliBoard

Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Add emoji search by eranl · Pull Request #1765 · Helium314/HeliBoard

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listening to podcasts again, and that put me on catching up with @latenightlinux . i was just listening to episode 349 from september 2025, and in it, @degville was talking about the keyboard he was using on his pixel 9 pro* fold. i wanted to make sure this (a GPLv3 keyboard that i've used on a galaxy tab to some success) got its time in the sun. unsure of how it would work for a foldy, but i know that it's highly configurable and i've gotten along well with it in many use cases

here's the fdroid link for it: https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/