What are the best FOSS keyboards/Openboard alternatives on F-Droid? (lemmy.world)

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[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm a pretty big fan of Futo Keyboard. offline voice to text, and pretty decent typing, all in all.

The only thing that I occasionally miss is not being able to insert gifs from Giphy

[-] it_a_me@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fyi the Futo Keyboard is not open source. It is source availabile with a license that includes open source aspects but it limits modification and redistribution. Aka the keyboard more or less dies when futu stops maintaining it under the current license.

Full license https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads

Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

You may not alter, remove, or obscure any licensing, copyright, or other notices of the Licensor in the software. Any use of the Licensor’s trademarks is subject to applicable law.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for pointing it out! I've been using it because I had the impression that it was FOSS, but I see now it's not.

It's a pity because I thought I had found an open source keyboard with decent offline prediction that also allowed for multiple-languages for prediction without having to be switching between keyboard "layouts".. I don't think there's any open source keyboard that has those features 😑

[-] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The swiping is miles behind gboard right now. Takes me forever to type using it because I have to go back and correct or swipe far more precisely than I had to with gboard.

[-] derick@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Just started using Futo myself and so far it's been pretty good.

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