Heliboard, FOSS keyboard app. Very good.
Thumb-key by Lemmy’s own dessalines. I even contributed a layout early on, and it’s still there.
Going to try thumb key thanks to this thread and see how it goes. Seems like a steep learning curve but I dig the concept of it. Wrote this (slowly) in it.
Unfortunately Microsoft SwiftKey since its the only one that autocorrects in a correct way when I type and hit the wrong keys.
OpenBoard, sometimes Fossify keyboard, once in a while keepass2android keyboard
FUTO. It’s as basic and barebones as Gboard, while also having more optional features and not owned by Google.
I want to use it exclusively so bad, but I spend most of my time deleting and manually rewriting almost every word when I need to type fast. Been using a swipe keyboards for over a decade, and its swipe feature is still so far behind usable.
And Arabic voice recognition on the advanced multilingual model is garbage, it just types random shit that doesn’t even rhyme with what I said.
Once I removed all the TTRJ type non-word allcaps crap from the dictionary, it became much more usable for me.
HeliBoard
I tried all the open source options and this seems to be the best. Still makes a hell of a lot of autocorrect errors…but still the best.
I’m soooo fucking glad for this question. I’ve been using thumbkey for like a year, after I got fed up using a normal keyboard. It’s sooo convenient I feel like I make a lot less typos using it and sometimes I can even type without lookin at my screen
Same here. The FUTO keyboard seems to have the best swiping feature among open source keyboards.
Shoutout to https://swipe.futo.org/
Installed it just now, and typing this comment via FUTO, as I’ve been annoyed by Swiftkey for quite a while.
I used this for a while to get away from SwiftKey but the lack of a built in gif search function pushed me back. Dumb I know but I use it. Is there any way around that?
I just manually search tenor.com or whatever gif site and send a link or download and send as an attachment. Annoying extra step but I’m using futo due to privacy/degoogle, so I don’t mind the extra work.
The stock AOSP keyboard.
What does APP stand for?
Android Phone Package
You win at backronyms
8vim is wonderful. I love to use it in combination with droidvim and/or vim on my terminal emulator
On Android? Anysoft keyboard.
It’s the best of the software keyboards available in F-Droid for general use in my opinion. It’s FOSS, fairly-configuable (though I’d like to have a “macro board” where I could, in-app, assign arbitrary characters or text snippets to keyboards). It supports “splitting” the keyboard, which is nice on a tablet.
But it has some pretty substantial issues.
There’s some bug it has, maybe a race condition, maybe multiple. On a slower, MediaTek-based Android device, I’ve seen it “miss” letters. Recently, on a faster one, I’ve seen it insert duplicate text when editing the middle of a word in various programs, like Firefox; I had to turn off the suggestions functionality to avoid that.
While it does have arrow keys, it doesn’t support “drag left/right on the spacebar to move the cursor left/right”, which is behavior that I think is very useful.
In general, with F-Droid software keyboards, I’ve typically found a lack of ability to input things like diacritics, often limited ability to emulate modifier keys for terminal use.
In general, I haven’t really been happy with the Android text input situation. On desktop, I can use emacs, or at least use various plugins to edit the contents of a Firefox text field in emacs. On Android, I’d really like to usually go into a fullscreen editing mode with an external editor when editing text, especially given the small screen on many Android devices — I don’t want to be editing text in a little text field in Firefox or whatever other app. Android doesn’t really have “external editor” support, where the keyboard and editor are separate apps; it has just the software keyboard, which limits options. Maybe it’s possible to implement that at the software keyboard level, have a “use external editor” option; I don’t know.
I’ve just ditched Anysoft. It hung constantly and every layout available had something missing (which was quite impressive).
On my Pixil 9?
I did DL the closed source swipe library (never know when I might need swipe type capability.)
Supplemented with FUTO Voice Input.
The clipboard/paste functionality alone is chef’s kiss.
Is it even legal to use lemmy with any other keyboard than thumb-key?
Its simply the best. I just wished it has japanese kanji prediction