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FUTO Keyboard is hands down the best option.
If you have philosophical objections to the FUTO license, then your options are Heliboard and Florisboard. Heliboard is currently better, but Florisboard has promise.
FUTO: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
... I was planning on testing them all here but that's so good I'll think I'll stop there! I see from recent reviews they are working on improving swipe even more :D thank you so much!
Please pay the licensing fee for ongoing development if you plan to use for an extended period👍
I'll probably jump around a bit now, by if its where I settle, I for sure will. Thanks :)
Giving this a try myself. Interesting that it's in the Play Store but not F-Droid.
AFAICT their license does not fulfill the OSI definition and is therefore ineligible for inclusion in the main F-Droid repo.
They have their own F-Droid repo:
https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
The repo is also pre-included in clients such as Droid-ify, which I use anyway because I like it better than the official client.
Thank you for this recommendation, it's exactly what I was looking for to get me off of GBoard.
Doesn't even detect I am glide typing about half the time. Unusable on my Google Pixel 4a.
Which one of the three I suggested?
FUTO is definitely a bit more resource hungry. Try Heliboard, you need to add a separate library to enable swiping, but it's definitely way lighter.
Futo. Will try Heliboard once I get Graphene installed, thanks
I like the FUTO keyboard, but it's just so annoying that it doesn't support multi-lingual typing and the swipe just isn't as good as Gboard.
It does support multilingual typing. Rather recent addition.
Why did I not know this, I've been suffering for so long. Makes it 50 times better. If only the swipe worked better now.