Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people’s writing. So what’s worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus
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Been using FUTO FOR A CHILW ANF I DONT UAVE ANY COMPLAINTA REALLY
Yeah pretty much
Another vote for FUTO keyboard.
Except, the swipe feature really likes to autocorrect to the most outlandish words that have never entered into my vocabulary at any point in my nearly 40 years on this godforsaken planet.
God, the autocorrect is horrible nowadays. Hey Google, team is a fucking word. No, I’m not talking about a team. Fucking figure it out.
Fucking Tram! Case and point.
I only have Hacker’s Keyboard installed because it’s the only one that’s stupidly simple while also giving a full standard keyboard complete with function keys and whatnot so I have as much control over remote applications as I do messing with them at home on the actual machine with a real keyboard.
FUTO, Thumb-key, and AnySoftKeyboard for me on different devices.
I’m using AnySoftKeyboard, which is open source and also has swipe controls
8vim !
I didn’t realize how bad Samsung keyboard was until now. Id forgotten I never changed it on my phone (I’ve had my phone for like 5 years) , even though I swapped to Gboard on my Samsung watch ages ago.
I’m a swipe typer and I’m sticking with open-board-gesture-typing-v1.4.5.apk, which is some kind of fork of gboard before it went totally off the rails. The only complaint I have about it is that it decided to stop capitalizing “I” for some reason and I haven’t been able to fix it, so I have to hit the suggestion each time.
OpenBoard is discontinued, the last update is from 2022.
Heliboard is continuation fork of OpenBoard, with more updates.
Right, but do I want more updates? This feels like one of those if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it things.
Software is never perfect. Even a seemingly work-as-intended software might have niche bug or security hole.
If you check the changelog of the software, they fix a lot of stuffs and adding more feature without making it bloated. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases
Don’t worry, gboard still doesn’t capitalize i.
No problem at all with Gboard for me. In fact, it’s the only one that can consistently do both German and Japanese for me.
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This thread is about virtual keyboard tho…
I use Fcitx for Android for Japanese typing.
Though, sometimes I still revert to old Mozc Android release, which not updated by Google anymore for more than five years.
Seems pretty recent, I’ve been looking for Heliboard upgrade because it’s not that great for other languages. Thanks for the mention
tOndO
I used yo use a keyboard called “hackers keyboard” then idk what happened but i uninstalled it. Used to be the best. Now i just use the built in one…
I said the same thing recently and am currently trying TypeWise! So far it’s alright.
