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

submitted 2 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] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I fucking hate Gboard spelling correct feature, it's completely useless. I often ended up google the word (ironic isn't it) to get the correct spelling.

A little context, English is not my native language so sometimes I got trouble spelling some words. For example the other day, I couldn't remember how to spell "aesthetic", I did type in "asthetic" along with a few other variation, but all I got from the "suggestions bar" was "authentic" "asthenic" "asthma" "asthenia".

So I gave up and type "asthetic" in Google and it knew immediately and correct it to "aesthetic".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's horrible. Then I turn it off and realize that it's somehow even worse without it.

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

FUTO FTW

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used Swiftkey until I noticed that Microsoft is adding weird shit to it and so I deleted it and now I just use the built-in Samsung keyboard because none of the others will be any better.

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[–] lazycouchpotato 3 points 2 months ago

I will hypocritically say that I use Gboard. I love Emoji Kitchen.

The day it comes to FUTO keyboard I'm outta this spyware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

OpenBoard Fork with gesture typing

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases

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

Keyboard Designer.

It allows me to put the numbers on the bottom row and the space bar on the 2nd row and the backspace next to the L where it belongs.

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

Whoa so that's like a build your own keyboard app or something?

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

Gboard but with network permissions turned off. Works great. Haven't had any issues with an autosuggest and swiping. I don't use autocorrect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear that it doesn't get angry at you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Probably ignores the setting

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[–] xarexyouxmadx 2 points 2 months ago

I want to like futo but I think it just needs more time. I'm using Gboard without the Internet access turned on (I'm using graphene OS) so I'm not worried about Google knowing anything I type.

I mostly use the swipe to text feature and I just haven't found another keyboard that does it better than Gboard (unfortunately)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Swift key with auto correct cranked to 11. Haven't found any other keyboard yet that lets me smash any nearby keys and have it fix it just fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

SwiftKey for swipe texting

[–] toomanypancakes 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Fleksy, probably not as popular because it doesn't have swype typing but I find the autocorrect works really well, and it's easy to change the word if you don't like what it corrected to by swiping up or down to different options, and you can swipe left to delete words. Built in gif support too, and there's an extension to make the number row always show.

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

Nice! That sounds pretty great (I don't use swipe typing at all so no loss there). When you delete a word from correction, is it only deleting it in that exact situation (our to out), or is it deleting out from the dictionary entirely? Hoping it's the former and that might be exactly what I'm looking for if so.

[–] toomanypancakes 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry, to clarify, swiping left is like backspace a word, if I swiped after now it'd delete "now", then "after" if I did it again. If you typed our and it changed to out, you could swipe up and it'd revert back to our.

You can add or remove words from the dictionary by opening the app separately too, but most settings are accessed from the keyboard.

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