Keyboard software for android ?
from Zotesune_miku@lemmy.zip to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 09 May 23:40
https://lemmy.zip/post/64029908

I am using the default samsung keyboard and I feel like thats not that good for privacy (tho still way better than microslop or google) js there any alternative that you would suggest ?

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merde@sh.itjust.works on 09 May 23:43 next collapse

☞ heliboard

f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard

Zotesune_miku@lemmy.zip on 09 May 23:45 next collapse

Thanks will try!

Auster@thebrainbin.org on 10 May 00:08 collapse

Dunno what languages you talk/use, so going by what I do:

starlinguk@lemmy.world on 10 May 08:46 collapse

I hate it. Every board is almost exactly wrong. There is always something missing.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 15:55 collapse

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

starlinguk@lemmy.world on 11 May 13:02 collapse

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.

merde@sh.itjust.works on 11 May 15:54 collapse

you can edit the layouts and add what’s missing

repetition is risky

datalogen@feddit.dk on 10 May 00:15 next collapse

I can also recommend FUTO Keyboard

Valarie@lemmygrad.ml on 10 May 06:02 next collapse

I use the FUTO keyboard and it has been amazing for me

Edit, recently heard some disturbing things about who all are associated with FUTO and some shady seeming dealings involving their grant project so make your own determination.

Stitch0815@feddit.org on 10 May 11:25 next collapse

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

BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone on 10 May 16:32 collapse

what’s sus about them?

Stitch0815@feddit.org on 10 May 17:52 collapse

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

cookiecoookie@lemmy.world on 10 May 14:12 next collapse

FUTO is great

rumba@lemmy.zip on 10 May 14:28 next collapse

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.

BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone on 10 May 16:31 collapse

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.

JudgmentInevitable45@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 May 04:12 next collapse

Unexpected keyboard if you are crazy enough

pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr on 10 May 15:25 collapse

I have it installed for when I need something closer to a computer keyboard on my phone

JudgmentInevitable45@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 May 10:34 collapse

I actually manage to daily drive it

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 06:05 next collapse

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

ropatrick@lemmy.world on 10 May 11:21 next collapse

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.

quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 May 13:43 collapse

i second that emitting emitting emotion…!

fivemahit@lemmy.ml on 10 May 12:39 next collapse

CleverKeys

mapleseedfall@lemmy.world on 10 May 13:42 next collapse

I like thumbkey

BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone on 10 May 16:37 next collapse

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

mapleseedfall@lemmy.world on 10 May 17:08 collapse

yeah took me like 2-3 month to learn it. But now it feels like writing on those old t9. I love it.

dessalines@lemmy.ml on 10 May 19:19 collapse

Thx, I made that one.

Hexarei@beehaw.org on 10 May 22:18 collapse

Heliboard is pretty good