florisboard/ROADMAP.md

FlorisBoard's feature roadmap & milestones

This feature roadmap intents to provide transparency to what I want to add to FlorisBoard in the foreseeable future. Note that there are no ETAs for any version milestones down below, experience says these won't hold anyways.

I try my best to release regularly, though some features take a lot longer than others and thus releases can be spaced out a bit on the stable track. If you are interested in following the development more closely, make sure to follow along the beta track releases! These are generally more unstable but you get new stuff faster and can provide early feedback, which helps a lot!

0.3.x

Releases in this section still follow the old versioning scheme, meaning the patch number is a feature upgrade. As this naming convention is more confusing than useful, beginning with v0.4.0 development a new release/development cycle will be introduced.

0.3.15 & 0.3.16 (currently 0.3.15 done, 0.3.16 in work)

• Hotfix releases for possible bugs in the preference rework (in work)
• Lots and lots of bug fixing in general (in work)
• Preparation work for 0.4.0, fixing text state logic and use break iterator (done)
• Reducing or getting rid of input lag some devices experience (done)
• Clean up of project structure for better future development (done)

0.4.0

• Re-adding word suggestions (at least for Latin-based languages at first)
  • Importing the dictionaries as well as management relies on the Flex extension core and UI in Kotlin
  • Actually parsing and generating suggestions happens in C++ to avoid another OOM catastrophe like in 0.3.9/10
  • The actual format of the dictionary and word list source is not decided yet
• Community repository on GitHub for theme sharing across users (may be 0.5.0)

With this release the versioning scheme changes: the second number now indicates new features, changes in the third " patch" number now indicates bug fixes and minor feature additions for the stable track. The development cycle for each 0.x release will have -alphaXX (optional and only for large releases), -betaXX and -rcXX (release candidate) releases on the beta track for interested people to follow along the development. The first release to follow the new scheme will be 0.4.0-alpha01 on the beta track.

0.5.0

• Complete rework of the Emoji panel
  • Recently used / Emoji history (already implemented with 0.3.14)
  • Emoji search
  • Emoji suggestions when using :emoji_name: syntax
  • Kaomoji panel implementation (the third tab which currently has "not yet implemented")
• Smartbar customization improvements
  • Quick actions customization (order and which buttons to show)
• Prepare FlorisBoard repository and app store presence for public beta release on Google Play (will go live with stable 0.5.0!!)
• Rework branding images and texts of FlorisBoard for the app stores
• Focus on stability and experience improvements of the app and keyboard

0.6.0

• Full on-board layout editor which allows users to create their own layouts without writing a JSON file
• Import/Export of custom layout files packed in Flex extensions

Backlog / Features that MAY be added, even in versions not mentioned above if the feature implementation fits perfectly with another feature

• Theme rework part II
• Adaptive themes v2
• Voice-to-text with Mozilla's open-source voice service
• Text translation
• Glide typing better word detection
• Proximity-based key typo detection
• Floating keyboard
• Tablet mode / Optimizations for landscape input
• Stickers/GIFs
• FlorisBoard landing web page for presentation
• Implementing additional layouts
• Support for Tasker/Automate/MacroDroid plugins
• Support for WearOS/Smartwatches
• Handwriting
• ...