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New Florisboard beta introduces addon support (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Without suggestions/predictions and auto-correction it’s unable especially for a lazy user like me. Hopefully someone makes extensions for them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

FlorisBoard is my favourite FLOSS Android keyboard. Waiting for swype-typing feature to be implemented to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

HeliBoard has it for some time now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It has a proprietary Google's implementation.

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

Thanks, I am really looking forward to a more stable version to replace Gkeyboard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wdym. I'm using it for years withou issues. It's perfecttly stablle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its in perpetual beta like lawnchair where the only releases are betas/alphas while the stable is left behind quite a lot

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

The stable version is perfectly fine. The beta is just the intermediate version untilsuggestions are ready.both are stable and the beta label is no problem. Development just takes some zime. It's difficult without sponsor

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

With Samsung's AI grammar correction, I can't put it down.

If you're willing to implement something like this, it would be amazing.

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

I haven't used the Samsung keyboard in years so I don't know what the comparison would be. I do think that for the most part, FOSS keyboards lag a couple years behind Google, Microsoft, etc. This is one that looks promising, but is still a long way off from a “complete” app.

I guess it depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a number of private keyboards now to choose from, but if you trust Samsung (Google, MS, etc.) with your keyboard data then it may make it worth the upgrade in features

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

No, I really don't trust Samsung or Google or any other company with my data, but I can't ignore such a great future like this. It's that good.

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

Grammar or spelling?

What does it correct that you need?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Gogle has it too, if you're writng an email itll fix grammer spelling. punctuation , etc!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Everything from grammar to spelling and even the typing style. It's really fast and direct, completely free. It uses AI to do all the work and works with almost every language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's literally a Grammerly addon (but I'm not OP)

I'd be interested in one for LanguageTool instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What is language tool?

Edit: Oh hey, I use this in Thunderbird. It's great!

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