I'm looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I've found:
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?
I use openboard but it gets me mad sometimes when I start deleting characters and it removes the space between the last word..sometimes it's really annoying!
Is it while using Jeroba for Lemmy? I had that problem with that app so I switched to Sync for that reason.
No way I didn't see that! I thought it was while using the English keyboard since it doesn't happen in message apps and the only place I use English keyboard is in Lemmy (jerboa) .. I'll switch to other app
I use Gboard but with internet access disabled for it. I haven't found a comparable open source keyboard yet.
Gboard isn't open source, which is why I disable internet access for it.
Here's my lazy and unpopular solution
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https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
Thank me later.
Related: how good privacy wise is the default AOSP keyboard found in no-Google-services ROMs like Lineage and /e/? Does it still phone home?
Try Thumb-Key. It's a keyboard made by Lemmy's main developer. It uses a rather exotic layout, but once you get used to it, it is so much better than qwerty.
I use OpenBoard. It's good, but my only problem is the lack of images being copied to the clipboard unlike my default keyboard.
Any of them have good support for foldables? (I.e. Full keyboard on cover screen, thumb keyboard on main screen)
my favorite is unexpected keyboard. it takes a while to get used to but once you do it's way faster than any othet keyboard.
It's a long shot, but does anyone know if CJK languages (not romanizations) are supported in any of these?
The alpha version of FlorisBoard has preliminary support for shape based Chinese layouts so you can write 汉字／漢字 with say, Cangjie or Zhengma. It also has the JIS kana layout for Japanese. Although, it doesn't support Kanji Substitution yet, but you could use the shape based Chinese layouts for that in the meanwhile. As for Korean, it's supported but no Hanja support yet.
While there isn't a release for it yet, you can take any release artifact from the GitHub Actions CI and it should have it.
Try https://github.com/osfans/trime. It has multiple input schemas (i.e. pinyin, zhuyin, cangjie, etc.) to choose from, and they are great for typing Chinese. Admittedly it only supports the C in CJK, but it is absolutely worth a try if you don't need Japanese or Korean.
