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Author: breadcat <peter@minskio.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 20:07:26 +0000
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+title: "Enabling Swype on the AOSP keyboard"
+date: 2021-01-31T14:42:00
+tags: ["Android", "Linux", "Snippets", "Software"]
+---
+
+I've recently changed my phone to a Pixel 4, one of the reasons for this was to have as much of an open source device as possible. Naturally my operating system of choice was [LineageOS 17](https://lineageos.org/).
+
+With this however, the included AOSP keyboard will not support gesture inputs without a proprietary Google library. To get this working, you'll first want to download the [Pico package of Open GApps](https://opengapps.org/) for your phone, I'm using ARM64 architecture for my Pixel 4 device however yours may be different.
+
+Once downloaded, extract your archive:
+```
+unzip open_gapps-arm64-9.0-pico-20210127.zip
+```
+
+Now move to the directory containing the library and extract that:
+```
+cd Optional
+tar --lzip -xf swypelibs-lib-arm64.tar.lz
+cd swypelibs-lib-arm64/common/lib64
+ls
+```
+
+Here, you should now have `libjni-latinimegoogle.so`. With this, you want to push this library to your phone.
+Once connected via ADB (and with root access enabled in the debugging menu), do the following:
+```
+adb devices
+adb root
+adb remount
+adb push libjni_latinimegoogle.so /system/lib64/
+adb unroot
+adb reboot
+```
+
+Once rebooted, browse to:
+```
+Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual Keyboard > Android Keyboard (AOSP) > Gesture Typing > Enable gesture typing
+```
+
+And you should be done.
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