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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

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[-] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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 😉

[-] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

kana flick was non-negotiable for me so, while im not proud of it, for now I'm using ms swiftkey in incognito, no Google play, network permission revoked (capability of Graphene OS).

another reason i chose it is handwriting input for Chinese.

anyway this is just until fcitx implements kana flick, per below issues.

other kana flick options:

i also tried Simeji keyboard but deleted when i found out it was owned by bytedance.. or was it Alibaba
another is Takt (タクト) keyboard which is closed source but claims to have directly adapted Mozc code for modern android. YMMV... personally i couldn't use it cuz the flick sensitivity and other ux elements were too far out of my comfort zone.

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