• kuneho@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    how about they just give us a Ctrl key, and strangely enough, almost every shortcut become available

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        11 months ago

        some Android OSKs have Ctrl button, like Unexpected Keyboard (it’s FOSS), it’s also my choice.

        downside, there is absolutely no dictionary and autocorrect but it’s absolutely marvelous, have all the keys and pretty configurable. has a bit of learning curve, since you swipe on keys to access more keys rather holding it down but this makes it powerful IMO

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        11 months ago

        I do not want motion controls on my phone

        I had an iPhone with that ages ago and it was so annoying when in a car or on a train

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        11 months ago

        No, on iOS Apple can fine tune it because they only have an handful of phones to support. On Android they can’t, and “one setting for all” will lead to a disaster experience like “everything gets deleted while typing in a bus” because the phone thinks you’re shaking to undo

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        11 months ago

        As long as it’s possible to turn off the shake and do it with a button. Motion controls are not accessibility friendly.

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    11 months ago

    That sounds like a lot of struggle over something the predictive text bar already does ? In my experience when you delete a word, or a whole sentence, it’ll be the only suggestions from the predictive bar at the top of the keyboard. Tap that suggestion and you get your stuff back.

    But yeah type another letter and you are fucked…

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    I’ve used Florisboard on my device for a few years now, and completely shocked at how barebones the stock Android and Samsung keyboards are…

    It can undo, redo, cut, paste, select all, view/insert clipboard history, clear clipboard, and swipe to move the cursor within text. Standard stuff like voice input and swipe typing are here too.

    Admittedly it’s not perfect, and probably not ideal for most casual users in its current state, but I just can’t go back to a standard keyboard after using this feature rich one for so long

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      11 months ago

      I tried so hard to stick to Florisboard but gboard is waaay too convenient that I keep going back to it. I wish Florisboard at least adds feature to search among emojis.

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      11 months ago

      Standard stuff like voice input and swipe typing are here too.

      How do you turn on swipe typing? And autocorrect, for that matter?

      Oh, you need to install the version marked “beta”. Still a pretty terrible typing experience from what I can tell.

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    11 months ago

    Samsung’s keyboard has a CTRL key on their Tab line. Not sure if that extends to foldables.