FYI, there's a fork of OpenBoard that enables swipe/glide typing! Literally was a game changer for me!
The only FOSS speech to text I found for English is Dicio, and it's not amazing, but it works.
There is now an open source voice input you can install that works with open keyboard, Which as Louis rossman says in his video is actually a lot better than gboard's
https://youtu.be/UCGaKvZpJYc?si=d3DMysA5Q_gMzQiU
Cc @refurbishedrefurbisher
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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.
Wow, Openboard is a huge keyboard by default with lots of vertical key spacing. It also has two of my favorite Gboard features:
Yeah its awesome. I remember moving cursor with volume buttons on old cyanogen, but this is lovely
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
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...
Yes, but only for the words I don't know the reading of. For everything else I use the T9 flick keyboard.
For multilingual users, which keyboards you recommend? I type in 3 languages and need a a keyboard that can have all 3 languages enabled.
Thanks! Is it still being supported? I see on F-droid the last update was two years ago
Yeah, there is a beta channel you can sign up for. Still no much releases but it works very well for me 😄
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?
Anysoftkeyboard for me, it has good multilanguage support, lots of customization and even a swype option
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.
You actually can use the same layout for multiple languages. Long press enter > override default dictionary or something
Do you know if it is still under active development? It's been one year since the last update
On their github they state that mayor releases take time. And there is activity on the github. So I think their working on it!
No releases in awhile, but there seems to be some work going on
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.
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.
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.