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Best keyboard on F-Droid? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've used a couple, Thumb-Key which was fun but didn't support emojis, and now OpenBoard which is pretty decent as a replacement

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

unexpected keyboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For day to day use, I think it's a bit hard to use. But I use unexpected Keyboard as secondary keyboard for editing code, or using CLI (termux, ssh to servers, ...). I will however give a try to anysoft for other uses...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wow! The Unexpected Keyboard is a very pleasant surprise!

My new default. Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The default keyboard is a bit of a mess, I'll need to get around to writing a new one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Florisboard once this is merged

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/pull/2209

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They gotta implement this in the main branch. This is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yesss, they would, but for now with these MYD themes, I'm fullfilled with Florisboard even without "Suggestions" and etc. We are still patiente, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, is this real, chat??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anysoft keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. So far I have not found any open source keyboard that supports swiping as well as Anysoft does. It's also very customizable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've tried this before but there's a hugely annoying bug where the backspace will not just erase the letters, but also the spaces between previous words. It's pretty much unusable on my device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Installing! I'm keen to get back a swiping board

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is all I'm waiting for to make the switch...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Simple Keyboard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/ https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file

I have been using simple keyboard, works well and does not track your data.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AnySoftKeyboard. A power user keyboard and has lennys like this

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The new fork of OpenBoard by Helium314 (on GitHub, not on F-Droid) is also nice. It has swipe typing and the newest Unicode emojis.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have to say that other than Microsoft's Swype keyboard, ASK is the most accurate of any Swype enabled keyboard I've tried.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using swipe for years, so glad to have a not-microsoft alternative now!