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What is a good keyboard app for Android? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ashen@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn't really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select "Load gesture typing library". When it asks you to select a file, select the "libjni" file and swiping should work just fine.

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[–] 84615_on_resu@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that Gboard would still find a way to connect to the mothership.

[–] bledley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes probably. It's a compromise and not ideal. I revoke internet access and on Graphene OS not tied to a Google account. We all find our own peace with this kind of thing. Florisboard looked very promising but the swipe text wasn't implemented last I checked.

[–] TheCopiedCovenant@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Florisboard appears to have been abandoned

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'd love to love Florisboard, but it doesn't make it easy. Swiping feels great, but it's dearly missing autocorrect/suggestions and the word recognition is so bad that typing is faster at least 80% of the time, which defeats the purpose.
I hope it gets better in the future.

[–] Ashen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly, seems so. They have swipe now but they don't have an autocorrect.