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I've been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn't really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select "Load gesture typing library". When it asks you to select a file, select the "libjni" file and swiping should work just fine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i like florisboard: language switching, clipvoard actions, undo/redo, customization, ...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

FlorisBoard is feature rich.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Gboard is still the best around. Block it's internet access.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that Gboard would still find a way to connect to the mothership.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes probably. It's a compromise and not ideal. I revoke internet access and on Graphene OS not tied to a Google account. We all find our own peace with this kind of thing. Florisboard looked very promising but the swipe text wasn't implemented last I checked.