Your favorite Android keyboard
What are your thoughts on the best Android keyboard out there? Which one gets your vote and why?
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FlorisBoard, hands down. I have tried many keyboards since maybe 2013, and FlorisBoard is the best one yet. It is privacy friendly too.
Trying this out it's pretty good so far
You'll love it
I like it. Missing auto correct is an issue, though. Will watch it. 😃
Holy shit I just installed it and this is soooo good! I've been waiting for so long. Why isn't this part of the "official" version??
I can finally finish my stories that were on hold since I abandoned Google board, and Floris never got there.
WE NEED TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Whoa I need to try that
Does this still get updated?
AOSP keyboard. No muss no fuss. KISS
I just use openboard lol
unexpected keyboard on f-droid
I use Gboard now. I was a long time Swiftkey user but when they added the Bing button and I couldn't remove it I switched.
I'm still using Minuum Keyboard. I think that QWERTY on a touchscreen keyboard is counter intuitive, slow and cumbersome. I wish more keyboards adopted single line keyboard layouts with fuzzy typing.
I forgot about Minuum! Is that still under development?
Edit: last update was 2017. Disappointing. Now this could be an interesting FOSS project!
Honestly, if someone would clone it and open source of... 🤤
Hold your 'Maters!
I genuinely enjoy GBoard. Now; I get it. It's not for everyone and it hasn't got the best...track record.
It does actually surprisingly work very well; and I have yet to see anyone on the FLOSS/F-Droid side of things manage to create a keyboard with similar functionalities. I get that it may be an impossible ask, but it seems like nobody on F-Droid is interested in creating a keyboard inspired by GBoard that actually has all the similar QoL features that GBoard offers.
I think people don't like it bc it's made by Google. They are definitely tracking everything typed on it lol
gboard
I have a Galaxy Fold 4 so I have both Swiftkey and Swiftkey Beta installed and use a Tasker profile to set the default keyboard to one or the other depending if I'm using the inner or outer screen. I did this so I could have a split keyboard when I'm using the inner screen (because I'm holding the phone with 2 hands and it's easier to type this way) and the regular keyboard when I'm using the outer screen. It was a little finicky to set up but truthfully I have become so used to it that I honestly forgot that I had 2 different keyboards until I started thinking about it because of this post.
I also have a fold 4 and I do this with launchers. Using Niagra on the outer screen since it's mainly vertical and I use SmartLauncher on the inside. I'm using Bixby routines to do it though. Never thought about doing it with keyboards though. TBH I rarely use the keyboard while folded anyway.
Gboard
I'm a simple guy, gboard with a nice spacing from the bottom of the phone to have good grip (I think it depends on the ROM).
Found an interesting one.
Irregular Expressions
More of a 🅂🄿🄴🄲🄸🄵🄸🄲 use case.
Swiftkey gal here. I've gotten so used to Swiftkey that now I find it hard to adapt to other keyboards lol :s
Gboard with its access to the internet blocked via RethinkDNS.
Gboard with a ios like style from Rboard Manager
Does anyone have thoughts on Fleksy? Hasn't been updated in a long time, but typing is quite fast on it. Autocorrect works exceedingly well.