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What android keyboard app do you use and why? (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it have the features I called out that I like about Gboard?

[–] gedaliyah 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think there is a free/private keyboard with gifs or stickers. There's gboard, SwiftKey, Samsung keyboard, and increasingly sketchy keyboards from there on down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd be happy to pay for one if it was good enough.

[–] gedaliyah 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, I meant free as in not proprietary. Free as in freedom.

I remember hearing about Fleksy keyboard years ago, although I can't really attest to it. It seems to have far fewer trackers than most proprietary keyboards, and just for analytics. Most other keyboards you find will send your data to advertisers or worse.

So far, most of the ones suggested here are free and private, meaning that they belong to the community and not to a company, and they do not collect or sell your data. That may be a factor for you or it may not, but I think a lot of people on Lemmy tend to care about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fleksy has gif support built-in. It's the only one outside of Gboard and SwiftKey that does afaik

[–] gedaliyah 1 points 4 months ago

Samsung does, and lots of others. But IMHO, they get pretty sketchy pretty quickly. Ginger has 12 known trackers, Bobble AI has 8, GO has 17, etc.