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Is this how most people type on mobile these days, drawing lines all over a keyboard instead of tapping the individual keys? I've never had an iPhone so I don't even know if they can do this natively, but I know you can switch keyboards at least, so it should still be an option if not.

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I do now. I've been using OpenBoard for a few years after ditching the Google spyware keyboard, and recently I've learned about a fork of OB with gesture typing. It's perfect if I have just one hand available.

[-] ScotinDub@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh nice! Will try this out thanks for sharing!

[-] macallik@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for linking! Currently using OpenBoard to get away from Swiftkey's privacy issues, but OpenBoard's lack of swipe has been a hard adjustment. FlorisBoard is en route to swipe tho it's still very much in beta (but feels like alpha with the current implementation)

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not optimistic about Floris. A while ago they've made the decision to completely rewrite everything - a common occurrence among small-time FOSS projects, and almost always results in the project completely dying (or in a "better" case scenario, coming out of the ordeal as only a shell of its former self). Floris Board... Has not had any receipt in a while.

But fortunately with this fork of OB existing, there isn't much need for it anymore. It would be nice to have a selection of modern FOSS keyboards, but, ah well.

[-] tentphone@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Does it work with password manager apps like Google keyboard does?

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Idk I don't use those.

[-] UncleStewart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've swiped since the early days of Swype. This forked version of OB let's you swipe only on the English layout. Swipe doesn't work for the other two languages I use. And English isn't my main one. Don't see much development for the keyboard either, so I'll probably have to wait a long time to use it as a daily driver. So, sadly I'm stuck with GB for now...

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can try AnySoftKeyboard or FlorisBoard, but both are more experimental than OB the commercial products.

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