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Looking for an alternative Keyboard app
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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Although Swype has been dead for quite a while now, that keyboard has been the best for swipe texting I've ever found. I tried Gboard, sucks. OpenBoard doesn't have swipe functionality (that I've found), and am using AnySoft right now, with minimal success. I have to keep backspacing to retype words, or manually type them, sometimes my swipes don't register into words, its just really annoying.
I wish someone would rebuild Swype so i could go back to it.
Edit: someone mentioned an OpenBoard fork that enables swipe texting and it's great! So, if you're looking for swipe, that's my reco