FlorisBoard is great! It's not had a release in about year but that doesn't mean it's not under active development. The developer is currently working on the Natural Language Processing component.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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+1 for Florisboard. Patrick is diligently working on the NLP. Currenlty it is in phase 2 which is also the most important and the most challenging.
In the meantime, if someone wants the Material You version of Florisboard that visually resembles Gboard, you can check it here
Just downloaded it to give it a try! So far missing autocorrect a little bit, but, honestly, I'm optimistic about how the keyboard can improve my typing (and diction). Much slower but also more well thought out. Auto lets you type fast, maybe too fast.
I will have to get used to typing apostrophes again though...
I had to stop using it for now. I need the autocorrect bad. I'm using a build of open board I found that has swipe for now until Floris updates.
I was really confused at first (new to this community), but they seem to be asking about a FOSS mobile keyboard for Android.
Sorry. I should have specified.
I am enjoying learning how to use the thumb-key:
https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
I see a lot of potential in it. I miss the escape, control, and the alt keys, and a partial select (in addition or instead of the 'select all') would be nice. However, for all the bread and butter typing, it seems great to me now.
Been using it as well. It requires practice, but it does feel like a better typing experience for a mobile device.
This is cool! I wish it had gesture typing over the keyboard as well
Open board has an active fork here: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard
It has typing suggestions, backspace and space bar gestures, and now some custom theming. Though it does have a weird bug with backspace behavior in the jerboa app- so does the original openboard and aosp keyboard that openboard is based on.
Its not available on f-droid, though hopefully that'll change in the future, but you can install the apk from the releases tab on github, or you can use obtainium to do that for you and it'll let you know when there's a new release
That jerboa backspace issue could be a jerboa bug. I have noticed the same with another keyboard, but not on any other app.
Yeah, I'm not actually sure where the issue is. It only happens for me with openboard, but also only happens in Jerboa. It seems more likely a jerboa issue since it apparently also happens with the AOSP keyboard that openboard is based on, but the distinction may not matter to someone who's just looking for a good keyboard app
I've been meaning to open a bug report in the repo for openboard and jerboa so it can get sorted, but haven't done so yet
Can confirm AOSP also has a weird backspace bug (seems to remove spaces from previous words in the sentence) but I've only noticed it in Jerboa. Also while typing this, so if you can please report it.
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I'm really happy with my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard and development is still active.