I’m looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I’ve found:
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?
Imagine asking this question 15 years ago
I use openboard but it gets me mad sometimes when I start deleting characters and it removes the space between the last word…sometimes it’s really annoying!
Is it while using Jeroba for Lemmy? I had that problem with that app so I switched to Sync for that reason.
That’s due to a bug with the AOSP keyboard that google has been ignoring for like 6 years.
Can confirm. That behavior stopped after switching to a non-asop based keyboard. Thanks!
Here’s my lazy and unpopular solution
I use FlorisBoard. It’s not perfect, but it has a fully featured clipboard and undo-redo functionality. Missing the swipe tho.
But it’s quite bad, given their care for privacy there’s no way they can compete with google who has all the data.
I know a bit of machine learning and I’m pretty confident I could hack something together that’s better than what florisboard has right now, but I’d have no idea where to even start integrating it.
Agreed there isn’t any beating google, but everyone operates on different threat models. A bit of inconvenience for a bit of privacy may be worth it for some and not for others. From what little i used of it when i was trying it that yes it had much room for improvement but it was still useable. Once they get predictive text enabled i think the a swipe feature will really shine. But then again that’s just my humble opinion
I use Gboard but with internet access disabled for it. I haven’t found a comparable open source keyboard yet.
I can’t do that on my side, perhaps because it’s a system app on my Pixel phone? Or do I need to be rooted for that?
