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

  • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 hours ago

    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.

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        7 hours ago

        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.

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      9 hours ago

      Thank you for this recommendation, it’s exactly what I was looking for to get me off of GBoard.

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      9 hours ago

      Doesn’t even detect I am glide typing about half the time. Unusable on my Google Pixel 4a.

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        7 hours ago

        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.

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      12 hours ago

      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!

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        11 hours ago

        Please pay the licensing fee for ongoing development if you plan to use for an extended period👍

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          5 hours ago

          I’ll probably jump around a bit now, by if its where I settle, I for sure will. Thanks :)