*Gboard is preparing to add an entirely new kind of activity to log and send to Google along with all of your normal keystrokes
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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GBoard is actually federated since 2017π€¦ββοΈ
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html?m=1
This is good from the privacy point of view right?
But maybe bad from your phone resources being used to train Google's platforms.
I haven't really found a particularly good alternative. I used to use AnySoftKeyboard, but stopped after I found that it was the cause of some performance issues I was having that would occasionally cause characters to be entered out-of-order on a slower Android device.
The lack of decent open source onscreen keyboards was actually one of my larger surprises when I hit Android. I thought that there'd be keyboards with user-specified macro keys, keys that could be dragged into a new layout or added and removed, etc, but no.
I have been using OpenBoard recently and it feels exactly like GBoard, except I have an issue where using backspace/deleting characters also randomly removes spaces from words I've already typed. So words will start gettingmashedtogetherlikethis. Unfortunately it seems unmaintained so I guess I will just have to move back to GBoard for now.
Well, there is Florisboard but it hasn't received an update for about 10 months. (Edit: found out its still developing but I think its sloooooowww)
Openboard is ok.
AnySoftKeyboard is ok.
Simple Keyboard looks too simple.
Eh, i use florisboard. it doesnt exactly suit my needs, but it gets the job done.
I use Unexpected Keyboard when I'm working in Termux. It's Open Source and does allow some layout customization.
Unfortunately it doesn't support "glide/swipe typing" so I find it doesn't replace Gboard for everyday usage.
Thanks, I'll take a look. I don't use glide typing myself.
EDIT: I don't think that I've tried this one. The support for terminal keys is great -- I use Termux, as well as the abilitty to remove the voice typing key. Good access to mathematical symbols.
There's no autocorrection support, which the major keyboards have. The spacebar horizontal drag to move the cursor has acceleration that differs feom the gboard one; I prefer gboard there. There is no quick access to some characters that I like, like superscript characters and em-dash.
It's definitely a worthy competitor, thanks.
I use SwiftKey, I prefer giving my data to Microsoft than Google, Microsoft sells products while you are Googles product.
Microsoft sells you as a product while also having the gall to charge you for it
I usually have internet access disabled for Gboard.
This! π
Just disable internet access. Your data will be local :D
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The one feature that may pull me from Swiftkey. Although i feel like its auto correct and predict are unbeatable somehow for the huge mistakes i make.
GBoard is only fine if you live in US and speak no other languages :)
It doesn't support automatic space addition after punctuation outside of English, doesn't support combined keyboard layouts (writing thos from a combined de/en layout on SwiftKey).
This is why I use SwiftKey. Being to type in English while keeping my Spanish keyboard is a godsend
I have been using a French/English layout with Gboard for a long time without any problems. The text prediction algorithms even support me changing language in the middle of a phrase. It's been so long since I used SwiftKey, but I think the swipe + multi-lingual support was the reason I initially switched back to Gboard when they added swipe support...
Finally. I wonder why that hasn't already been implemented years ago.
Has anyone tried openboard ? Its on fdroid
With their recent updates im just glad they finally added split keyboard functionality to the rest of the android tablets. Im actually texting quickly on a 12 inch samsung tablet
The samsung keyboard sucks when using the split keyboard function.
Guess that explains why I always read complaints about table typing on Android and I found it to be pretty nice on my fold lol
The link isn't working for me. What does this function do exactly?
In the video, they wrote some random text and "accidentally" deleted it, then used the "Undo" function to bring it back.
Cool, thanks!
I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't already been a feature (is "shake to undo" still a thing on iOS?), but nevertheless late is better than never!
As someone who has had to deal with Android keyboard input fucking everything up for web developers, please Google, stop this madness already.
I'm ignorant on this - what issue does it cause?
If you go into a input field on Android and you type a key, it doesn't send that key. It sends "key chords" through a separate event system which are an absolute bitch to deal with.
Seriously it's madness. Handling anything Gboard does in rich text is already like pulling teeth and now this?
I remember there used to be an app called Inputting+ that made a sort of undo function. Sad that development ceased.
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