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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, HeliBoard is an excellent, open source keyboard app.

[–] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This...plus you can ad swipe support.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and voice with futo

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've struggled with keyboards. Some to try out are OpenBoard, Heliboard, and Florisboard. All are on F-Droid.

But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard. Not without issues but I like it the best. It's not on F-Droid but you can use Obtanium to keep it up to date from the GitHub releases.

If you like weird shit, check out Thumb-key. It's on F-Droid and made by one of the Lemmy developers.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Futo keyboard isnt on fdroid not happy about that really hope they start publishing it there tho.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

FUTO cannot decide to publish on the F-Droid main repository. The F-Droid team compiles all the apps that get published there themselves, so they decide what to publish. Well, and the F-Droid team will not publish FUTO keyboard, because it's not open-source.

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why would you want a F-Droid-signed app when you can have the app directly from the dev?

[–] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using Florisboard and I like it well enough :>

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Heliboard is my main. But I've been trying Futo Keyboard and its also very nice.

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been very happy with OpenBoard. Accessing the emoji menu took a little getting used to (you hold down the enter button until it pops up), but it's great overall.

[–] impure9435@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

OpenBoard isn't updated anymore, use HeliBoard instead (it's a fork that's actively maintained). It's also on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/helium314.keyboard/