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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Seems you tested a lot of options. I've been testing Heliboard since the first reply I got, but uhhh.....

Would any of those you tested happen to support multilingual typing? As in, detecting when you switch languages without having to tap a button? I alternate between English and Portuguese a lot and having to tap something to switch is a nuisance.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I just spent ages looking into this and the answer is... Heliboard!

    Go to languages and disable the option to use the system language. Then enable, say, Portuguese. Once enabled, tap on the name of the language and there is a Multilingual option to add another language (e.g. English).

    I don't use this open so can't speak to it's quality, but give it a go and let me know how you get on!

    CC: @EddoWagt@feddit.nl

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No way, why is that so hidden? I'll check heliboard out! Thanks for the @, really appreciate it.

    Now to find a swipe typing library

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even more frustrating was how every keyboard describes themselves as "multilingual" but they just mean you can switch between different languages, not that you can use multiple at once.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah it's a totally different thing. I guess people who make the keyboards only really speak one language. It's taken so much time to find a keyboard that actually does it. Gboard does it and I think Swiftkey used to as well, but those are not open source obviously.

    I still have a bit of configuring to do for Heliboard, but I think I can get it to work for me

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