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Dessalines, the author, also is the main contributor of Lemmy (an open source Reddit clone in Rust that's on the Fediverse). He's a very ideologically motivated programmer, a socialist, and I admire him very much. https://github.com/dessalines https://join-lemmy.org
I used to use a very similar looking/functioning keyboard way back on my Palm organiser and then on my Pocket PC. I don't recall the name of it now, but I got be being quite fast with it. It didn't have any autocomplete IIRC.
On my Pocket PC devices I used a keyboard that looked similar, but functioned very differently. You would draw a letter in a 3*3 grid, the passage of grid squares would indicate which letter is being drawn. I loved it, I should write something similar for Android.
For the love of god... just show me how it works. Yes, based on a previous product. Yes, privacy is nice. Highly configurable. History of phone keyboards... "Tap, or slide / swipe to type a letter." Slide/swipe how? "Swipe up or down on A to capitalize." So is A acting like a shift key? Or is that for every letter? How to capitalize the letters then that I somehow have to slide/swipe on? Show me how it is working.
For iOS i found this excellent T9 keyboard recently: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/type-nine-t9-keyboard/id926008... Also work without any network access, lookups are on-phone
I think you know, but just to be clear: this one isn't T9, it's something IMO much better. I've used the keyboard they based this on and it's easily the best input method available on a phone once you learn it.
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I think you know, but just to be clear: this one isn't T9, it's something IMO much better. I've used the keyboard they based this on and it's easily the best input method available on a phone once you learn it.
What did they base this on?
Dessalines, the author, also is the main contributor of Lemmy (an open source Reddit clone in Rust that's on the Fediverse). He's a very ideologically motivated programmer, a socialist, and I admire him very much. https://github.com/dessalines https://join-lemmy.org
He's not just a socialist, he is a hard line Marxist.
I may have put more than an hour into it already, I'm still only at a bit more than half my speed on Gboard, and my speed with Thumb-key already may have plateaued. It's easier to make mistakes on Gboard, but the speed makes those mistakes worth it anyway.
I did spend something like infinity time learning to type on a normal keyboard, so the comparison is uneven, which is why I'm interested in other peoples' experiences.
If you want to make unpaid contributions into this project you should carefully consider this.