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What's the best alternative to Gboard?
I've gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.
Am finding it hard to replace.
Wildcard for keyboard: ThumbKey
This has been pretty great, although unique.
Joplin
I sync it with onedrive basically for free between my phone, laptop and computer. It's wysiwyg editor means it was basically a drop in replacement for EverNote for me, but open source and without the costs.
- Music player: "dialog music player" for filemanagers, Vanilla music if you want auto-play, anrimians player is nice too (github)
- maps: nothing beats OSMAnd
- Notes: personally markor, but if you want cross platform sync Standard Notes may be nice
- Keyboard: Florisboard forever, so stable and customizable. I cant like without the internal clipboard and quick deletion, and the editing buttons
- Keyboard: OpenBoard (works great, support anonymous mode, my layout, emojis, paste, move cursor using finger over space button, longer deletes using finger over backspace)
- Music Player: Odyssey (I don't rely on ID3 tags but directory structure instead - there is too little of those players who use it)
- Music Player: ViMusic (FOSS interface to Youtube Music)
- Music Player: RadioDroid (for online radio stations)
RiMusic is a maintained fork of ViMusic
Keyboard: FlorisBoard
Music Player: InnerTune
Is there a way to get autocorrect on Florisboard?
Waiting. They're programming the thing.
oh? I can wait, that's not an issue. I didn't find any forum threads that indicated that was in the works.
Maps: Organic Maps
Notes: Note calendar. Type in notes for a specific day. A beautifully simple app.
I'm using "Unexpected Keyboard" right now. I like that it's different in that I dont have to long press a key in order to input punctuation. It's a swipe from the center of a key to a corner and I think it's that little bit faster. :)
Also doesn't have auto-correct like other FOSS keyboards.
Does anyone know of an alternative to Hacker's Keyboard? It hasn't been updated for about 5 years and I'm worried it will stop working on newer versions of Android.
Maybe: unexpected keyboard
Had a look at it, seems to lack dedicated modifier and cursor keys. Looking specifically for a PC-style keyboard.
- Openboard
- Quillnote
- Organic Maps
- ViMusic - music streaming but after 1st listen songs are cached for offline play.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I use session for taking notes and "syncing" them with my PC. I guess any messaging app with a desktop client would work.
Quillnote has been abandoned. Quillpad is the fork that has a somewhat active development, if that matters to you.
Why is it bad that it's been abandoned? It works fine for me. Are there security concerns or something?
Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you'd miss. If that's important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!
quillpad has no way of exporting notes as of yet, be warned.
RiMusic is a fork with updates
##Keyboards
Florisboard is back!
Openboard is sadly outdated, but there was some steady updated fork
Simple keyboard (NOT the simple tools), but it doesn't have many fucntions, but works just great and looks on a million $
##Notes
Many good options, but i would like to see an gpg encrypted notes with local storage
Honorable mentions: logseq, simple notes
Maps
Gmaps WV (donate to divest, plz), organic maps
##Music
Everything that works with jellyfin, bauh was good, but not updated in a while
According to fdroid, florisboard is in beta, but hasn't been updated since june, 2022. Is it still active?