This reminds me of what I did for Rad Type: https://www.tyleo.com/projects/rad-type
I didn’t fully optimize for touch but it’s based on the same idea that you want more buttons equidistant from where your thumb centers.
Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
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#32Will you get this up on f-droid in addition to the play store?
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#33I wanted to install it to give it a try, but in the playstore I saw the application roughly translated is "susceptible to share my approximative location with other enterprises or organization".
I must ask, what could the reason(s) for a keyboard have access to a location ?
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#34> Keybee Keyboard increases more than double the keysize thanks to its hexagonal structure. No waste of pixels.
It may be efficient, but it's using more screen space; I'm not sure that's a win.
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#35The thing I dislike about smartphone keyboards is the amount of screen real estate they use. This keyboard seems to take more screen real estate rather than less.
Yeah, the example is pretty bad. This layout also seems to be hard so squash vertically without increasing the error rate a lot compared to a normal one. The error rate on smaller sizes is something a lot of novel touchscreen keyboards should probably have focused on instead.
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#36Compare 1996's "FITALY": "For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (For prose, involving few numbers and symbols, the results are even better.)" https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/ And closer to OP, "HexInput": "Please use this idea! If you are a software developer, I u…
There were a _lot_ of programs in this space, one of the more interesting was AlphaTap! by Network Improv: http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html c.f., the research project: https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/ For my part, I just write text out using a Wacom stylus on my Note 10+
>Type by zooming infinitely into a prediction model
Holy crap that's a trippy GIF
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#38I wanted to install it to give it a try, but in the playstore I saw the application roughly translated is "susceptible to share my approximative location with other enterprises or organization". I must ask, what could the reason(s) for a keyboard have access to a location ?
I’ve always thought about copying other useful apps that are clearly trying to collect data or make you pay for stupid IAP, and then publishing and maintaining it through donations. The apps would all be free in the various offical stores.
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#39I wanted to install it to give it a try, but in the playstore I saw the application roughly translated is "susceptible to share my approximative location with other enterprises or organization". I must ask, what could the reason(s) for a keyboard have access to a location ?
I’ve always thought about copying other useful apps that are clearly trying to collect data or make you pay for stupid IAP, and then publishing and maintaining it through donations. The apps would all be free in the various offical stores.
The delta between thinking about it and doing it is why there’s so many solid one-and-done apps that don’t exist.
I strongly encourage people to do it, especially if they’re not going to try to cash in.
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#40Well, it’s interesting, but who is heavily working with text, which requires a lot of typing, and only has a smartphone? Phones are mostly for consuming. For creating, it’s usually easier and more comfortable to use a device with a keyboard (PC or laptop)
1) Like 80% of the world is smartphone-only 2) In my (wealthy, Boston area) suburb most high school students do all their work - including writing multi-page papers - entirely on their phone. They think laptops are for old people.
I found 2) amazing. Then I realized I'm an old person...