• HidingCat
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    111 year 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.

    • stebo
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      21 year ago

      what’s something that makes SwiftKey better?

      • HidingCat
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        11 year ago

        The predictive engine and ease of entering a prediction. Quite often I can just hit space a number of times to complete a message.

  • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    81 year 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.
  • expectation failed
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    1 year 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
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    51 year 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

    • stebo
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      31 year ago

      You are handwriting Japanese symbols? I use the querty keyboard that converts romaji to hiragana/kanji. However I’m afraid this isn’t available on other keyboards either…

      • @postkevone@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Yes, but only for the words I don’t know the reading of. For everything else I use the T9 flick keyboard.

  • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski
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    41 year 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
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      21 year ago

      AnySoftKeyboard works great for me with two languaged😄

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

          • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski
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            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?

  • @AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz
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    Anysoftkeyboard for me, it has good multilanguage support, lots of customization and even a swype option

    • Carighan Maconar
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      51 year 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.

  • RiQuY
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    31 year ago

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

    • @bet@lemm.ee
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      61 year 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.

  • Cam
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    31 year ago

    FlorisBoard is feature rich.

  • @bet@lemm.ee
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    11 year 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
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    11 year 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.