For us sad iOS people, what's your favorite swiping keyboard? I just use the stock Apple one because custom keyboards can still be a little buggy (eg not loading occasionally).
Occasional bug is worse than permanent suffering?
FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
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#142> Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
Amen. Glad to see that companies like that still exist.
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#143I've been using this keyboard on and off for a while now. I've always switched back to gboard, however this update made me convert full time. It's really good. There are a few issues, like it randomly capitalizes words in the middle of sentences. Also, it doesn't seem to take context into account when suggesting words, so words that clearly wouldn't follow the last word will often show up. It's not as good as gboard…
Good. That's a silly thing to have in a keyboard. No silly childish gifs that I can accidentally click on is a great feature.
worse, there's silly keys you can accidentally click and type out flibbertigibbet. very childish
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#144For us sad iOS people, what's your favorite swiping keyboard? I just use the stock Apple one because custom keyboards can still be a little buggy (eg not loading occasionally).
Occasional bug is worse than permanent suffering?
Well, iOS swipe keyboard is not that bad. I would not call it “permanent suffering”. I tried gboard and swiftkey and they aren’t a giant improvement over the stock keyboard these days. They used to be.
Wrt the “occasional bug”, what happens is that sometimes (enough to make it bad) the keyboard doesn’t render at all!
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
FUTO Swipe supports ClearFlow, which is exactly what you are talking about, a keyboard layout optimized for swiping: https://clearflowkeyboard.github.io/ https://github.com/futo-org/futo-keyboard-layouts/issues/163
Does It work for non English languages?
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#146Re: FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
#147Very nice. FUTO is the keyboard I keep recommending. The only thing missing now would be a decent dual-swipe support. Injecting single letters with taps during a swipe or continuing a swipe with another finger makes it even faster since it let's you avoid awkward long horizontal "detours" just to hit one letter.
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#148That's neat! Would love to try it, but am also on iOS :/
With the risk of sounding like a broken record - what are people using on iOS? I've been using `SwiftKey` for a while as it has dictionaries for languages that the native keyboard doesn't have. But I would love to switch to something else, as M$ has been shoving AI features on it that I am definitely not interested in.
So far in this thread I've seen Grammarly and Nintype. The former seems to suffer from the same things as SwiftKey, while the latter doesn't look it's maintained (last update 7y ago). I don't mind a paid app, as long as it doesn't invade my privacy.
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#149If you'd prefer a swipe typing library under a truly open license, NLnet is funding [1] the creation of one by the HeliBoard [2] devs.
HeliBoard currently uses a proprietary library extracted from GBoard, which you need to add manually (since the app has no Internet connectivity out of principle), but they're asking for swipe data contributions, to be then distributed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, which'll be then utilized by their own open swipe library.
Check our more details here [3], [4] if you'd like to contribute.
[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/
[2] https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard
[3] https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-...
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Occasional bug is worse than permanent suffering?
Well, iOS swipe keyboard is not that bad. I would not call it “permanent suffering”. I tried gboard and swiftkey and they aren’t a giant improvement over the stock keyboard these days. They used to be. Wrt the “occasional bug”, what happens is that sometimes (enough to make it bad) the keyboard doesn’t render at all!
What happens is you simply toggle the keyboard field off /on in th the same or a different app, a simple albeit slightly annoying fix.
But in general, there is no giant improvement, none of the major ones are even competent enough to figure out a grid of numbers is better than a row, but Apple is even worse - it doesn't even let you type a number on long hold, for some reason thinking that a letter ų you'll never type in your English life is a better alternative
To me, not being able to type in numbers easily is a permanent suffering, though ok, not the end of the world
And unfortunately don't think there is a single swipe keyboard that's properly customizable to fix those glaring issues...