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Keyboard software for android ?
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I can also recommend FUTO Keyboard
I went looking for an offline keyboard a while ago, tried Helibord, but couldn't figure out how to resize the keyboard, which for me is an accessibility issue since I can currently only type one handed.
Ended up going with FUTO for that reason. Swipe and STT sealed the deal.
FUTO is great
I use the futo keyboard too
And yes i know I know.
Futo is sus
But they can absolutly not be worse than big tech and make the best keyboard for me
what's sus about them?
They invented their own license after facing backlash
Calling it source available.
They have/had people on their sponsor site that dont know about it.
Tbh did not really follow it that much
I personally think often times the outcry of the open source community is overblown.
I follow and watch companies and entities over years, actions speak louder than words. And oftentimes (in the open source world) people actually do change for the better just not 5 minutes after am angry mob called them a vibecoding stupid cunt.
Long story short.
Bit of suss behavior by futo, but since then it's been really quite around them and they continue to deliver banger software that might not be open source but source available
Their Swype works but it's a little overly sensitive.
There's an option to install their voice typing with it too.
I'm not going to say that it's perfect, but it is by far better than anything else that's not Google or Android. I do wish it was FOSS, but SA is an acceptable compromise for something that works as well as it does. And as privately as it is.
I like thumbkey
Thx, I made that one.
I think I could love thumbkey if I put in the using it time to make it efficient. my first experience using it was too disorienting, so I walked away
yeah took me like 2-3 month to learn it. But now it feels like writing on those old t9. I love it.
Only one I've found bearable in a post-Swype world is heliboard.
Two caveats. First, that you have to do extra work to enable glide typing. It isn't difficult, but it's not something you would automatically think to do.
Second, that it's suggestions are kinda crap lol. It's good at picking up the glide input, but the suggestions it pulls up when it doesn't are sometimes batshit lol.
Coming from Swype, it's not exactly great. But it's on par with gboard in most ways
i second that ~~emitting~~ ~~emitting~~ emotion....!
I'm using Heliboard too but yhe correction is really bad. Very frustrating. Have to go back and correct yhe same words all the time. As yiu can see here, it still has not learned that yhe should be the. And yiu also.
Just goes to show how bad my manual typing is!
I'm.tolerating it but its immensely annoying.
Heliboard is pretty good
Unexpected keyboard if you are crazy enough
I have it installed for when I need something closer to a computer keyboard on my phone
I actually manage to daily drive it
CleverKeys
☞ heliboard
I hate it. Every board is almost exactly wrong. There is always something missing.
i used AnySoftKeyboard for years. I started using Heliboard recently and i was able to customise it almost as much as ASK.
Heliboard is less buggy and is updated regularly (unlike ASK which is updated once a year or once in 3 years).
I use HB to write in 3 different languages with habits borrowed from each other so i need to be able to personalise any button and its popups, placements &c to my liking.
If you think that "Every board is almost exactly wrong. There is always something missing." then you just don't know how to use heliboard. It's as flexible as ASK.
Settings > Languages and Layouts > 'language of your choice' > Layout
There you can edit the layout and add whatever you think is missing
Yes. I know. I've tried it all. It's pretty much impossible to get it set up exactly the right way. There is always something missing.
you can edit the layouts and add what's missing
repetition is risky
Thanks will try!
Dunno what languages you talk/use, so going by what I do:
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Pretty light and good for European languages from my experience, there's Simple Keyboard: https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/
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Heliboard's also great for Korean, if you learn it at some point.
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Mozc is technically Google's project, but is on F-Droid and is pretty good for Japanese writing, so kinda of a gray area, I guess: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozc.android.inputmethod.japanese/
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Fcitx5-Android is pretty good for Asian languages too, specially if your prefer phonetic keyboards instead of Mozc and Heliboard's visual approach: https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android
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