What are your thoughts on the best Android keyboard out there? Which one gets your vote and why?

  • airikr@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    FlorisBoard, hands down. I have tried many keyboards since maybe 2013, and FlorisBoard is the best one yet. It is privacy friendly too.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Hold your 'Maters!

    I genuinely enjoy GBoard. Now; I get it. It’s not for everyone and it hasn’t got the best…track record.

    It does actually surprisingly work very well; and I have yet to see anyone on the FLOSS/F-Droid side of things manage to create a keyboard with similar functionalities. I get that it may be an impossible ask, but it seems like nobody on F-Droid is interested in creating a keyboard inspired by GBoard that actually has all the similar QoL features that GBoard offers.

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    1 year ago

    I use Gboard now. I was a long time Swiftkey user but when they added the Bing button and I couldn’t remove it I switched.

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    1 year ago

    Does anyone have thoughts on Fleksy? Hasn’t been updated in a long time, but typing is quite fast on it. Autocorrect works exceedingly well.

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    1 year ago

    I’m still using Minuum Keyboard. I think that QWERTY on a touchscreen keyboard is counter intuitive, slow and cumbersome. I wish more keyboards adopted single line keyboard layouts with fuzzy typing.

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      1 year ago

      I forgot about Minuum! Is that still under development?

      Edit: last update was 2017. Disappointing. Now this could be an interesting FOSS project!

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    Does anyone have thoughts on Fleksy? Hasn’t been updated in a long time, but typing is quite fast on it. Autocorrect works exceedingly well.

  • I’ve used AnySoftKeyboard for ages as it’s infinitely customizable while also fully respects privacy. But it does take time to dial in every component. I give the Graphene keyboard a go every now and again, but AnySoftKeyboard is still my go to.

    • Einar@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I have it installed, but miss some minor features. Swipe left to delete, to begin with. Hold to move cursor. Such small quality of life features. Or am I missing them?

      • As of 2019, the swipe to delete was an option labeled “Back-word” but a name change was being discussed. There’s also an option to move the cursor after holding the space bar too, just not sure of the name but it should be somewhere in the settings.

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          1 year ago

          Thanks. Will go through the settings again. Will definitely give it a spin. Am typing this mesaage with that keyboard. 👍