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Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people's writing. So what's worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

FUTO, Thumb-key, and AnySoftKeyboard for me on different devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I only have Hacker's Keyboard installed because it's the only one that's stupidly simple while also giving a full standard keyboard complete with function keys and whatnot so I have as much control over remote applications as I do messing with them at home on the actual machine with a real keyboard.

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

I use Fcitx for Android for Japanese typing.

Though, sometimes I still revert to old Mozc Android release, which not updated by Google anymore for more than five years.

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

Seems pretty recent, I've been looking for Heliboard upgrade because it's not that great for other languages. Thanks for the mention

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Been using FUTO FOR A CHILW ANF I DONT UAVE ANY COMPLAINTA REALLY

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God, the autocorrect is horrible nowadays. Hey Google, team is a fucking word. No, I'm not talking about a team. Fucking figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Fucking Tram! Case and point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I didn't realize how bad Samsung keyboard was until now. Id forgotten I never changed it on my phone (I've had my phone for like 5 years) , even though I swapped to Gboard on my Samsung watch ages ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I used yo use a keyboard called "hackers keyboard" then idk what happened but i uninstalled it. Used to be the best. Now i just use the built in one..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm a swipe typer and I'm sticking with open-board-gesture-typing-v1.4.5.apk, which is some kind of fork of gboard before it went totally off the rails. The only complaint I have about it is that it decided to stop capitalizing "I" for some reason and I haven't been able to fix it, so I have to hit the suggestion each time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OpenBoard is discontinued, the last update is from 2022.

Heliboard is continuation fork of OpenBoard, with more updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, but do I want more updates? This feels like one of those if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Software is never perfect. Even a seemingly work-as-intended software might have niche bug or security hole.

If you check the changelog of the software, they fix a lot of stuffs and adding more feature without making it bloated. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases

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

Don't worry, gboard still doesn't capitalize i.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another vote for FUTO keyboard.

Except, the swipe feature really likes to autocorrect to the most outlandish words that have never entered into my vocabulary at any point in my nearly 40 years on this godforsaken planet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I'm using AnySoftKeyboard, which is open source and also has swipe controls

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

No problem at all with Gboard for me. In fact, it's the only one that can consistently do both German and Japanese for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I said the same thing recently and am currently trying TypeWise! So far it's alright.

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