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I’m a bit surprised that this hasn’t already been a feature (is “shake to undo” still a thing on iOS?), but nevertheless late is better than never!
*Gboard is preparing to add an entirely new kind of activity to log and send to Google along with all of your normal keystrokes
Just disable internet access. Your data will be local :D
GBoard is actually federated since 2017🤦♂️
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html?m=1
This is good from the privacy point of view right?
But maybe bad from your phone resources being used to train Google’s platforms.
I haven’t really found a particularly good alternative. I used to use AnySoftKeyboard, but stopped after I found that it was the cause of some performance issues I was having that would occasionally cause characters to be entered out-of-order on a slower Android device.
The lack of decent open source onscreen keyboards was actually one of my larger surprises when I hit Android. I thought that there’d be keyboards with user-specified macro keys, keys that could be dragged into a new layout or added and removed, etc, but no.
Well, there is Florisboard but it hasn’t received an update for about 10 months. (Edit: found out its still developing but I think its sloooooowww)
Openboard is ok.
AnySoftKeyboard is ok.
Simple Keyboard looks too simple.
Eh, i use florisboard. it doesnt exactly suit my needs, but it gets the job done.I use SwiftKey, I prefer giving my data to Microsoft than Google, Microsoft sells products while you are Googles product.
Microsoft sells you as a product while also having the gall to charge you for it
Has anyone tried openboard ? Its on fdroid
Finally. I wonder why that hasn’t already been implemented years ago.
The one feature that may pull me from Swiftkey. Although i feel like its auto correct and predict are unbeatable somehow for the huge mistakes i make.
GBoard is only fine if you live in US and speak no other languages :)
It doesn’t support automatic space addition after punctuation outside of English, doesn’t support combined keyboard layouts (writing thos from a combined de/en layout on SwiftKey).
This is why I use SwiftKey. Being to type in English while keeping my Spanish keyboard is a godsend
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As someone who has had to deal with Android keyboard input fucking everything up for web developers, please Google, stop this madness already.
I’m ignorant on this - what issue does it cause?
If you go into a input field on Android and you type a key, it doesn’t send that key. It sends “key chords” through a separate event system which are an absolute bitch to deal with.
