What's the best open source keyboard for android? : opensource

[+] Shady_Shiroe 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Fyi, the futo keyboard isn't open source. The license heavily restricts against who can modify it and for what purpose. https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads

[–] Shady_Shiroe 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah I wasn't aware, I just assumed that even if it's from its own repository, it is still on F-droid

Edit: reading the license, seems open source enough but I don't have a legal background so I'm not the most well versed in that stuff, as long as code it open is the bare minimum for me.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is it vulnerable to enshittification?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Once Luis Rossman dies likely....

Until then, i trust that bro

[–] [email protected] -4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

it is, you just can't understand what open-source means, even though it is in its name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

you just can’t understand what open-source means

FYI, nearly everyone (including Futo themselves), except for some Futo fans like yourself who haven't gotten the memo, agrees that this is the definition of "open source" (and Futo's license obviously does not qualify).

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago

This license, plus that the app require microphone access, plus all the AI features, make my BS alarm go bzzz.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it is OS

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thumb-key.

It takes a bit to adapt and create muscle memory but I can't change it now that I am used to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

yeah. Takes a bit to get used to but I now have less typos than on regular keyboards. 🙂

[–] Xeroxchasechase 9 points 19 hours ago

I've actually tried everything that was recommended here, but AnySoftKeyboard still fits me the best.

[–] m4m4m4m4 2 points 13 hours ago

I like Fossify's, but I won't recommend it - it has no predictive text and no symbols on its main keyboard, the first which is a huge deal for almost everyone. Not sure if they're working on those or if it will never get those features, because if it had those two it would be the perfect keyboard because it's so great in every other sense.

[+] peregus 2 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

the base aosp keyboard or florisboard

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