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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Openboard has been doing well for me.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've treid a few, I don't think any of them are as good as Swiftkey sadly. Swiftkey just works, even Gboard is nowhere near as good as it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, Openboard is a huge keyboard by default with lots of vertical key spacing. It also has two of my favorite Gboard features:

    1. Swiping left and right on the spacebar moves the cursor left and right.
    2. Swiping left starting at the backspace key will highlight text, then releasing the key will delete the highlighted text. However, it doesn't pop-up the deleted text as a suggestion to let you undo it, in case you didn't by accident.
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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    If you are a Florisboard user, there is a version with dynamic Material You themes here. It's really good while we wait for the new versions with this official built-in

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Any FOSS keyboards with swipe-to-text? Always seems like they're missing that

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

    Openboard fork with swipe typing feels the closest to Gboard imho.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you so much, I was using FlorisBoard but was missing the swipe!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any alternative to gboard with good hand writing recognition for Japanese... So if you need that functionality I think gboard is your only choice

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    For multilingual users, which keyboards you recommend? I type in 3 languages and need a a keyboard that can have all 3 languages enabled.

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

    AnySoftKeyboard works great for me with two languaged😄

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

    Thanks! Is it still being supported? I see on F-droid the last update was two years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there is a beta channel you can sign up for. Still no much releases but it works very well for me 😄

    https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Awesome, thanks. One last question if you don't mind me asking. I was going to activate the keyboard on my Android phone and got a warning notification that if I did it, the keyboard wouldn't be available to input before I unlocked me screen. But I need a keyboard to unlock my screen obviously. Could this be an issue?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Im gonna give simple keyboard a week. If it works well, I might keep it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    FlorisBoard is feature rich.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Do you know if it is still under active development? It's been one year since the last update

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Anysoftkeyboard for me, it has good multilanguage support, lots of customization and even a swype option

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    What I dislike about ASK is how... disjointed it feels.

    For example, I cannot use a mixed english+german input and have the same key layout for both languages. But I don't want to swap between keyboards, I need one keyboard setup to do both things.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Any FOSS keyboards with swipe-to-text? Always seems like they're missing that

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What are the advantages of using this apps compared to the Android Keyboard (AOSP)?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    For me, the key is FOSS. I was a keen fan of swiftkey, its word predictions worked great. Then it was bought by a company that I distrust, and when I was forced to choose another, I decided to try to ensure I'd never have to switch again.

    A little while after I bailed on swiftkey, the news reports came that it was auto-filling random strangers' credit card numbers; I felt vindicated.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thumb-key is different but great

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I'm always looking for an android keyboard that is either only a number pad, or can be configured to show the number pad first by default. I have this one use case, playing farkle mostly, where I like to split screen excel and an image of the rules, and because excel is open split screen the keyboard always opens to letters. It drives me nuts that I cannot force a keyboard to open to a number pad.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I've got three soft keyboards enabled on my phone, to choose between as needed.

    Unexpected Keyboard is my default; it's a perfectly cromulent basic keyboard, that makes all the punctuation, ctrl/fn/esc available for comfy shell work.

    When I need to type in non-ascii characters like accented letters, I have AnySoft available. And pwsafe has a soft keyboard in it to let me avoid passing my (exceedingly hard to type, long random) passwords through the clipboard.

    I used to have Hacker's Keyboard in the mix, but Unexpected Keyboard has made it unnecessary.

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