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How does Gboard know what my friends has typed?
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Feel free to decompile them - it's all there in the APK, you don't have to live in doubt.
You know, assuming they have a background with years of coding experience and have the necessary knowledge to decompile a program and the necessary free time to reverse engineer the gibberish the decompiler spits out only for it all to be for nothing before they even finish because a new version was released.
Who cares ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I'm using a foss keyboard
Applications like that obfuscate the already almost unreadable decompiled code
Obfuscation only makes the effort of decompilation take a bit longer - fundamentally, they are going to be executing the bytecode on your device, and that cannot be hidden from you.
I'm speaking from experience here - I've decompiled multiple APKs before, all containing bytecode that has been obfuscated by ProGuard. It's a bit harder than reading source code, but with some practice it's always possible to figure out what's going on in the end.