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[-] curve@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Openboard has been doing well for me.

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

FYI, there's a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing! Literally was a game changer for me!

[-] curve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is the one I'm using. It's fantastic.

[-] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[-] curve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Nope, not that I can see.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only FOSS speech to text I found for English is Dicio, and it's not amazing, but it works.

[-] Thibaultmol@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

There is now an open source voice input you can install that works with open keyboard, Which as Louis rossman says in his video is actually a lot better than gboard's
https://youtu.be/UCGaKvZpJYc?si=d3DMysA5Q_gMzQiU
Cc @refurbishedrefurbisher
@curve

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

I've treid a few, I don't think any of them are as good as Swiftkey sadly. Swiftkey just works, even Gboard is nowhere near as good as it.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Wow, Openboard is a huge keyboard by default with lots of vertical key spacing. It also has two of my favorite Gboard features:

  1. Swiping left and right on the spacebar moves the cursor left and right.
  2. Swiping left starting at the backspace key will highlight text, then releasing the key will delete the highlighted text. However, it doesn't pop-up the deleted text as a suggestion to let you undo it, in case you didn't by accident.
[-] TheMadnessKing@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Wow, never knew of these gestures on gboard.

Thanks a lot for the info.

[-] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah its awesome. I remember moving cursor with volume buttons on old cyanogen, but this is lovely

[-] http417@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you are a Florisboard user, there is a version with dynamic Material You themes here. It's really good while we wait for the new versions with this official built-in

[-] postkevone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any alternative to gboard with good hand writing recognition for Japanese... So if you need that functionality I think gboard is your only choice

[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Any FOSS keyboards with swipe-to-text? Always seems like they're missing that

[-] src@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Openboard fork with swipe typing feels the closest to Gboard imho.

[-] Proxima_Centauri11@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you so much, I was using FlorisBoard but was missing the swipe!

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Uh... Florisboard does have that though. It's in the glide typing section of settings

[-] Proxima_Centauri11@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ah thank you, I must not have updated it.

[-] Lightning66@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Im gonna give simple keyboard a week. If it works well, I might keep it.

[-] AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Anysoftkeyboard for me, it has good multilanguage support, lots of customization and even a swype option

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What I dislike about ASK is how... disjointed it feels.

For example, I cannot use a mixed english+german input and have the same key layout for both languages. But I don't want to swap between keyboards, I need one keyboard setup to do both things.

[-] AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah thats a real bummer to me as well, but haven't found a better alternative yet

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

What keyboard are you using to get around this?

[-] neinoderdoch@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

You actually can use the same layout for multiple languages. Long press enter > override default dictionary or something

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

OMG! I did not know this! Wow. TYVM! <3

[-] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

For multilingual users, which keyboards you recommend? I type in 3 languages and need a a keyboard that can have all 3 languages enabled.

[-] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

AnySoftKeyboard works great for me with two languaged😄

[-] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Is it still being supported? I see on F-droid the last update was two years ago

[-] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there is a beta channel you can sign up for. Still no much releases but it works very well for me 😄

https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard

[-] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome, thanks. One last question if you don't mind me asking. I was going to activate the keyboard on my Android phone and got a warning notification that if I did it, the keyboard wouldn't be available to input before I unlocked me screen. But I need a keyboard to unlock my screen obviously. Could this be an issue?

[-] thecam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

FlorisBoard is feature rich.

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Do you know if it is still under active development? It's been one year since the last update

[-] herrfrutti@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

On their github they state that mayor releases take time. And there is activity on the github. So I think their working on it!

[-] thecam@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

No releases in awhile, but there seems to be some work going on

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/actions

[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Any FOSS keyboards with swipe-to-text? Always seems like they're missing that

[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

There's a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing. It's pretty darn good!

[-] sic_1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just tried it, it doesn't support swiping input. What am I doing wrong?

[-] RiQuY@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

What are the advantages of using this apps compared to the Android Keyboard (AOSP)?

[-] bet@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

For me, the key is FOSS. I was a keen fan of swiftkey, its word predictions worked great. Then it was bought by a company that I distrust, and when I was forced to choose another, I decided to try to ensure I'd never have to switch again.

A little while after I bailed on swiftkey, the news reports came that it was auto-filling random strangers' credit card numbers; I felt vindicated.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.film 1 points 2 years ago

Thumb-key is different but great

[-] bet@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I've got three soft keyboards enabled on my phone, to choose between as needed.

Unexpected Keyboard is my default; it's a perfectly cromulent basic keyboard, that makes all the punctuation, ctrl/fn/esc available for comfy shell work.

When I need to type in non-ascii characters like accented letters, I have AnySoft available. And pwsafe has a soft keyboard in it to let me avoid passing my (exceedingly hard to type, long random) passwords through the clipboard.

I used to have Hacker's Keyboard in the mix, but Unexpected Keyboard has made it unnecessary.

[-] sidereal8@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm always looking for an android keyboard that is either only a number pad, or can be configured to show the number pad first by default. I have this one use case, playing farkle mostly, where I like to split screen excel and an image of the rules, and because excel is open split screen the keyboard always opens to letters. It drives me nuts that I cannot force a keyboard to open to a number pad.

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