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Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Futo keyboard isnt on fdroid not happy about that really hope they start publishing it there tho.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

FUTO cannot decide to publish on the F-Droid main repository. The F-Droid team compiles all the apps that get published there themselves, so they decide what to publish. Well, and the F-Droid team will not publish FUTO keyboard, because it's not open-source.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

they probably won't serve it on the official repo, because it's not really open source. you can look up their own repository and add it to F-droid, though.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why would you want a F-Droid-signed app when you can have the app directly from the dev?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

F-Droid is like a Linux distribution. And basically, the idea behind that is that open-source means nothing in terms of trustworthiness, unless you compile the source code yourself. The source code is what can be audited, whereas the binaries that the developer provides could be filled with malware and you'd never know about it.

Now, compiling everything yourself is complex and time-consuming, so this is where F-Droid / distros come in. Rather than trusting each and every app developer, you merely need to trust the F-Droid team.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yes that's the thing. I trust my guys at FUTO and Rossman, and the other devs I use the apps from. But I don't know the F-Droid team

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