• cRazi_man@europe.pub
      7·
      9 days ago

      I tried all the open source options and this seems to be the best. Still makes a hell of a lot of autocorrect errors…but still the best.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      I want to use it exclusively so bad, but I spend most of my time deleting and manually rewriting almost every word when I need to type fast. Been using a swipe keyboards for over a decade, and its swipe feature is still so far behind usable.

      And Arabic voice recognition on the advanced multilingual model is garbage, it just types random shit that doesn’t even rhyme with what I said.

  • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    On Android? Anysoft keyboard.

    It’s the best of the software keyboards available in F-Droid for general use in my opinion. It’s FOSS, fairly-configuable (though I’d like to have a “macro board” where I could, in-app, assign arbitrary characters or text snippets to keyboards). It supports “splitting” the keyboard, which is nice on a tablet.

    But it has some pretty substantial issues.

    There’s some bug it has, maybe a race condition, maybe multiple. On a slower, MediaTek-based Android device, I’ve seen it “miss” letters. Recently, on a faster one, I’ve seen it insert duplicate text when editing the middle of a word in various programs, like Firefox; I had to turn off the suggestions functionality to avoid that.

    While it does have arrow keys, it doesn’t support “drag left/right on the spacebar to move the cursor left/right”, which is behavior that I think is very useful.

    In general, with F-Droid software keyboards, I’ve typically found a lack of ability to input things like diacritics, often limited ability to emulate modifier keys for terminal use.

    In general, I haven’t really been happy with the Android text input situation. On desktop, I can use emacs, or at least use various plugins to edit the contents of a Firefox text field in emacs. On Android, I’d really like to usually go into a fullscreen editing mode with an external editor when editing text, especially given the small screen on many Android devices — I don’t want to be editing text in a little text field in Firefox or whatever other app. Android doesn’t really have “external editor” support, where the keyboard and editor are separate apps; it has just the software keyboard, which limits options. Maybe it’s possible to implement that at the software keyboard level, have a “use external editor” option; I don’t know.

    • starlinguk@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      I’ve just ditched Anysoft. It hung constantly and every layout available had something missing (which was quite impressive).

  • Tja@programming.dev
    91·
    9 days ago

    SwiftKey, as it supports 4 simultaneous languages pretty well, including diacritics and predictions. It’s owned by Microsoft so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have this specific requirement.

    • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I need multilingual swipe typing support, and unfortunately nothing else comes even close to SwiftKey. AnySoftKeyboard is open source, and is pretty good for swipe support in one language

  • 90s_hacker@reddthat.com
    5·
    8 days ago

    I’m soooo fucking glad for this question. I’ve been using thumbkey for like a year, after I got fed up using a normal keyboard. It’s sooo convenient I feel like I make a lot less typos using it and sometimes I can even type without lookin at my screen

  • da Tweaker@feddit.org
    4·
    8 days ago

    8vim is wonderful. I love to use it in combination with droidvim and/or vim on my terminal emulator

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    3·
    9 days ago

    I think I might have found a replacement for Gboard just now. First I found Fossify had a keyboard, but no Japanese input. Then I found one I’m gonna have to get used to that I’m currently trying out:

    スミレ日本語キーボード ( Sumire Japanese keyboard )

    I need to comb through settings to see if this is actually the keyboard for me, but I am liking it sk far. Really have to check if for their English QWERTY board there is a setting to bring the period to the letter section or if it is trapped with the other punctuation and make it so it automatically puts a space after doing one of their suggested words in the top bar thing.

    The Japanese board is 9-key and also has a QWERTY romaji board, so I’m satisfiedright now. I personally don’tcare about the romaji board since I can read hiragana and katakana and I prefer 9-key because it’s what I am used to on Gboard, but it’s coolfor those that need it for any reason.

    I also just learned before posting my comment that the keyboard defaults to that Japanese 9-key everytime you bring up the keyboard. Not a big deal, just another thing to learn and get used to.

    Edit: switching to HeliBoard for English and switching as need be for Japanese. Just making the switch to get stuff done in a more efficient and timely manner.

    • dodos@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      Thank you! I’ve been stuck with Gboard since there are no good 9-key japanese input apps, but this one was instantly usable! This + futo seems like it’ll be a good setup for me.