Hey guys, im just got rid of gboard and im already missing the autocorrect and swipe to type features. I know there has to be a privacy friendly option out there. Thank you for your help; im fat fingering every other key, pls save me
Anyone got a FOSS keyboard that doesn’t suck AND can type in Japanese? I was using Gboard with wifi off for almost a year, but switched recently to Fctix + Anthy (didn’t even know Fctix had Android keyboards!) but the typing kinda sucks (click suggestion and doesn’t add a space after the word, accidentally slide on space so I start typing within a word) and it doesn’t do autocorrect.
Mozc is so old it literally doesn’t work on newer Android versions.
I checked Floris and Heliboard, and neither support it 🙁
I was too looking for a Japanese keyboard as a new Japanese learner. None of them seem to support it yet.
Fctix has been kind of a blessing to me, since I don’t own a PC sadly. I agree the typing kinda sucks, it has less functionality. But as for space after a selected suggestion word you can configure that behavior in the settings.
Anyways I do hope the Japanese keyboard input will be supported on the more optimized keyboards eventually, if you find anything better before I do please let me know!
Felt that. I definitely miss having a kana flick keyboard on my phone, I prefer it to qwerty conversion. I especially needed a good keyboard cause I was using FOSS apps to do my Wanikani reviews on my phone (Smouldering Durtles).
If someone does make something good, I’ll try to notify you, or make a notice in the Japanese learning communities on Lemmy 😉
Heliboard.
You can couple FUTO speech.
Personally, I have gotten excellent traction from Heliboard. I would recommend it.
Well, I second Futo (for the keyboard, not speech). Heliboard is laggy as hell on y redmi.
I use helioboard and floris board for other languages. Been liking it, very customizable. I changed the spacing on the keyboard to fit my fingers, so i make less mistakes.
I miss inserting gifs from gboard. Does anyone have a solution to that?
I really like Unexpected Keyboard. Doesn’t have swipe or gifs. But I love that all the symbols are available on the main keypad. You just click-swipe for each one.
Unexpected Keyboard is excellent for Termux. Wished it had autocorrect, though.
FUTO Keyboard is hands down the best option.
If you have philosophical objections to the FUTO license, then your options are Heliboard and Florisboars. Heliboard is currently better, but Florisboard has promise.
Giving this a try myself. Interesting that it’s in the Play Store but not F-Droid.
AFAICT their license does not fulfill the OSI definition and is therefore ineligible for inclusion in the main F-Droid repo.
They have their own F-Droid repo:
https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
The repo is also pre-included in clients such as Droid-ify, which I use anyway because I like it better than the official client.
Thank you for this recommendation, it’s exactly what I was looking for to get me off of GBoard.
Doesn’t even detect I am glide typing about half the time. Unusable on my Google Pixel 4a.
Which one of the three I suggested?
FUTO is definitely a bit more resource hungry. Try Heliboard, you need to add a separate library to enable swiping, but it’s definitely way lighter.
Futo. Will try Heliboard once I get Graphene installed, thanks
FUTO: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
… I was planning on testing them all here but that’s so good I’ll think I’ll stop there! I see from recent reviews they are working on improving swipe even more :D thank you so much!
Please pay the licensing fee for ongoing development if you plan to use for an extended period👍
I’ll probably jump around a bit now, by if its where I settle, I for sure will. Thanks :)
I really like heliboard. It works without network permissions, has autocorrect, and can do emojis
I cannot see it in the Play Store.
f droid
Ah.
Looks tempting but the repo has active issues going back 2 years without being resolved. I’ll still probably give it a go tho, seems a popular opinion, thanks
I’ve been using it without major caveats since October last year. Even tried the proprietary swiping library you can install (it uses the Gboard one iirc, but OFC it can’t do shenanigans since it’s isolated by the app and not connected to the internet)
Nice that sounds perfect honestly! I’ll have go try it next. Thank you
thumb-key. It takes some getting used to but its amazing.
I just use Gboard and block network
Another user said they used GrapheneOS to block network, what’s your method?
Same here. But I believe it is possible with netguard as well, maybe other apps as well
Ya I want to know too
Heliboard is decent
I use Gboard but have blocked its Internet access, which is possible on Graphene OS.
I think I should install grapheneOS regardless, thank you
If you want to try something totally different, I can recommend Thumb-key. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it can be quite fast to type with.
WTF! That’s SO weird! I have to try it xD thanks
Another good part is that nobody wants to use your phone, since they can’t type with it 😅
My go to is still Hacker’s Keyboard. It’s great with Termux and me as good touch keyboard as I’ve had.
