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what keyboard APP do you use?

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    Sadly SwiftKey cause it's hard to find a good enough F-droid alternative with a working auto-complete. Plus ThumbKey when typing with one hand.

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      https://keyboard.futo.org/

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        Android Phone Package

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        You win at backronyms

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          Gboard since it can spell check multiple languages at once

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            Gboard since it can spell check multiple languages at once

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            So can heliboard

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              https://keyboard.futo.org/

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              Installed it just now, and typing this comment via FUTO, as I've been annoyed by Swiftkey for quite a while.

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                So can heliboard

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                Yeah? Like in the format of multiple languages in the same sentence?

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                  Yeah? Like in the format of multiple languages in the same sentence?

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                  yeah, I am perfectly happy with it doing both english and german, even in one sentence sometimes

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                    On Android? Anysoft keyboard.

                    It's the best of the software keyboards available in F-Droid for general use in my opinion. It's FOSS, fairly-configuable (though I'd like to have a "macro board" where I could, in-app, assign arbitrary characters or text snippets to keyboards). It supports "splitting" the keyboard, which is nice on a tablet.

                    But it has some pretty substantial issues.

                    There's some bug it has, maybe a race condition, maybe multiple. On a slower, MediaTek-based Android device, I've seen it "miss" letters. Recently, on a faster one, I've seen it insert duplicate text when editing the middle of a word in various programs, like Firefox; I had to turn off the suggestions functionality to avoid that.

                    While it does have arrow keys, it doesn't support "drag left/right on the spacebar to move the cursor left/right", which is behavior that I think is very useful.

                    In general, with F-Droid software keyboards, I've typically found a lack of ability to input things like diacritics, often limited ability to emulate modifier keys for terminal use.

                    In general, I haven't really been happy with the Android text input situation. On desktop, I can use emacs, or at least use various plugins to edit the contents of a Firefox text field in emacs. On Android, I'd really like to usually go into a fullscreen editing mode with an external editor when editing text, especially given the small screen on many Android devices --- I don't want to be editing text in a little text field in Firefox or whatever other app. Android doesn't really have "external editor" support, where the keyboard and editor are separate apps; it has just the software keyboard, which limits options. Maybe it's possible to implement that at the software keyboard level, have a "use external editor" option; I don't know.

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                    I've just ditched Anysoft. It hung constantly and every layout available had something missing (which was quite impressive).

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                      yeah, I am perfectly happy with it doing both english and german, even in one sentence sometimes

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                      Thank you, I will try it!

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                        SwiftKey, as it supports 4 simultaneous languages pretty well, including diacritics and predictions. It's owned by Microsoft so I wouldn't recommend it unless you have this specific requirement.

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                        I need multilingual swipe typing support, and unfortunately nothing else comes even close to SwiftKey. AnySoftKeyboard is open source, and is pretty good for swipe support in one language

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                          Is it even legal to use lemmy with any other keyboard than thumb-key?

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                            HeliBoard

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                            I tried all the open source options and this seems to be the best. Still makes a hell of a lot of autocorrect errors......but still the best.

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                              Heliboard without the google swipe library. I also use Futo Voice when I have a lot to type.

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                                https://keyboard.futo.org/

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                                I used this for a while to get away from SwiftKey but the lack of a built in gif search function pushed me back. Dumb I know but I use it. Is there any way around that?

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                                  I used this for a while to get away from SwiftKey but the lack of a built in gif search function pushed me back. Dumb I know but I use it. Is there any way around that?

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                                  I just manually search tenor.com or whatever gif site and send a link or download and send as an attachment. Annoying extra step but I'm using futo due to privacy/degoogle, so I don't mind the extra work.

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                                    FlorisBoard

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                                      Irregular expressions.

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                                        I just let ai do whatever it wants

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                                          https://keyboard.futo.org/

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                                          Same here. The FUTO keyboard seems to have the best swiping feature among open source keyboards.

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