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What is a good keyboard for android?

I've been using SwiftKey for waaaaaaay too long. I shoulda switched when Microsoft bought them out.

But old habits die hard. And I love the skin I use.

Help they know everything I've typed on a phone. That can't be good for anyone.

Edit: Holy fuck everyone, thanks for all of the responses!

I went with Heliboard, and typing this, it looks like I have to change a couple more settings to get it like I had Swiftkey, but I already like it more.

The fact you can basically make your own skin by changing all of the colors of the keyboard is amazing.

Fuck microsoft's ai keyboard.

Heliboard for lyfe!

Edit edit: trying to delete my data from Swiftkey was INSANELY hard. I couldn't do it from my phone, so I had to login with a computer. They think they are slick.... Fuckers....

wazzupdog ,

I like florisboard, it's fairly customizable.

Prunebutt ,

If you'd like to have a more ergonomical keyboard: thumb-key is way worth the learning curve!

moreeni , (edited )

+1 for the keyboard. I thought it was a meme app at first but it turned out to be way better than I ever expected. Written from Thumb-key BTW.

dessalines ,
@dessalines@lemmy.ml avatar

Thx! (I'm the main dev)

Doctorsnorky ,

I love the Samsung keyboard. It has a delete key

Lemongrab ,

Samsung and Privacy don't mix. Not worth it IMO to use a closed source keyboard if you care about privacy.

eco_game ,

While I do agree and have stopped using the Samsung keyboard, it does have many unique features that I still miss almost daily.

A few that come to mind:

  • a special text editing mode (select all to the left, right; turn select mode on and then move around with arrowkeys while selecting, ...)
  • visual resizing of the keyboard
  • "2D" cursor control (move cursor diagonally)
  • swipe spacebar left/right to change input method (while having spacebar cursor control enabled!)
billgamesh ,

Simple Keyboard on fdroid. Others have more features, but I can't switch. The swipe delete and swipe to move cursor are so smooth and I can't make any other keyboards work as well for me. I wanted florisboard to work, but it just felt clunky

shreddy_scientist ,
@shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml avatar

Be sure to switch as soon as Fossify releases their fork of it, Simple Mobile sold out HARD! Thankfully the 2nd in command at Simple Mobile created Fossify and is releasing all the apps to keep everything open sourced.

billgamesh ,

Didn't notice that one. I'm using the first simple keyboard, from rkkr. Think the simple mobile one must be a later addition

eco_game ,

Do you mean the SimpleMobileTools keyboard or the "normal" Simple Keyboard?

Coming from the Samsung keyboard (and before that Apple), I'm quite dissatisfied with the cursor movement in most Android keyboards (including HeliBoard).

billgamesh ,

the latter

someoneFromInternet ,

thumb-key

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

Unexpected Keyboard on f-droid.

knightly ,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

Florisboard on f-droid is pretty ok.

Caravaggio ,

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin/

glacier ,
@glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I use Heliboard: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

lemmyreader ,

You are posting in a privacy community confessing that you were long hooked on some keyboard for their shiny look and what not :-) What do you really want from a keyboard app besides privacy ?

Probably there is more privacy friendly ones in this long list : https://search.f-droid.org/?q=keyboard&lang=en

Have fun!

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Swyping, the core functionality? And maybe one-finger mode?

Trent ,

I've wandered through a bunch of them. Used to use Florisboard. Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good too. The Hacker's Keyboard for some stuff. Mostly these days Heliboard for general typing.

MapTheft ,

Been using Florisboard for a while. It is the most like gboard, although the swipe typing is not as good. All in all though, I'd still recommend.

Gnorv ,

Ay, also am using that one

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