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OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by jmnicolas »

yorwba wrote: post #58
jmnicolas wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The search function on FDroid is atrocious. I find all the language packs for Anysoftkeyboard but not the keyboard itself.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboa... I think the search function is working fine, the app is just called "AnySoftKeyboard 3D Theme" in the F-Droid app but not on the website for some reason.

Then why I can't find it even with your keywords?

The other possibility is that it's not present for me because it might not be compatible with GrapheneOS?

But I have problems with search even for other apps. I'm OK with it it because FDroid is very good otherwise.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by aasasd »

Noxmiles wrote: post #49

Well, it seems not to have a Swype functionality. Actually, on small Touchscreens without feedback this is quite essential. We really need an full open source keyboard with some kind of Swype. Sadly I don't know any.

AnySoftKeyboard has swipe-typing, though alas it's not as smooth as in commercial apps.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by aasasd »

chrismorgan wrote: post #55
MayeulC wrote: post #12

I use AnysoftKeyboard (on F-Droid) [1]. I's pretty good, but has issues with the French apostrophe, that's often used to combine words. It also has multiple keyboard layouts, of which "terminal" compares favorably to hacker's keyboard. I like that it is configurable, and has a lot of text editing tools when swiping space up. I admit I lost some typing speed when I switched from the alternatives, but I'm happier with…

I just now figured I’d try AnySoftKeyboard. Its stock behaviour seems a little weird in places, but I’ll try it for a while and see how it goes. But the real thing that’s annoying me is how uncompromisingly huge it is. Its default behaviour has it consuming a shade under two thirds of the available screen space on my not-inordinately-large phone, compared with under half on the Samsung keyboard in its compact (reduce…

ASK's preferences organization could use some work. What you want is in the ‘select theme’ screen: press the gear, then see ‘keys height factor’.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by Semaphor »

CarVac wrote: post #59

I use MessagEase, which has a wacky layout that makes typos much less frequent, and thus doesn't need autocorrect. Not open-source, unfortunately.

Thanks, this looks interesting. And the settings. So many settings and I love settings :D

No permissions at all is pretty impressive. The only thing I can’t figure out: How will they make money? They seem to have run a IndieGoGo campaign and now ask for donations (hidden in the settings), but that will eventually run out.

This is especially worrying with something as specialized as this.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by aasasd »

Peter-Jan wrote: post #72
MayeulC wrote: post #12

I use AnysoftKeyboard (on F-Droid) [1]. I's pretty good, but has issues with the French apostrophe, that's often used to combine words. It also has multiple keyboard layouts, of which "terminal" compares favorably to hacker's keyboard. I like that it is configurable, and has a lot of text editing tools when swiping space up. I admit I lost some typing speed when I switched from the alternatives, but I'm happier with…

I love AnysoftKeyboard but it completely freezes once every few days when pressing the emoji key. Forcing me to reboot my phone. Which is quite annoying to say the least. https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/18...

Just as a workaround: you can stop the app without rebooting the phone. The full app list is probably not accessible, but you can go via the ‘apps’ menu in the settings.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by MayeulC »

chrismorgan wrote: post #55
MayeulC wrote: post #12

I use AnysoftKeyboard (on F-Droid) [1]. I's pretty good, but has issues with the French apostrophe, that's often used to combine words. It also has multiple keyboard layouts, of which "terminal" compares favorably to hacker's keyboard. I like that it is configurable, and has a lot of text editing tools when swiping space up. I admit I lost some typing speed when I switched from the alternatives, but I'm happier with…

I just now figured I’d try AnySoftKeyboard. Its stock behaviour seems a little weird in places, but I’ll try it for a while and see how it goes. But the real thing that’s annoying me is how uncompromisingly huge it is. Its default behaviour has it consuming a shade under two thirds of the available screen space on my not-inordinately-large phone, compared with under half on the Samsung keyboard in its compact (reduce…

I agree it's a bit big, I tend to configure my keyboards to use the minimal size. That said, there are multiple themes to pick from, and some are smaller than others. You could conceivably make your own, though I have never tried.

Edit: thanks a lot aasasd, I had just spent a few minutes looking for it (again), without finding it.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by Topgamer7 »

ktm5j wrote: post #69
akvadrako wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's amazing. And this also works on the default Android/iOS keyboards too.

oh.. really? Now I feel silly haha

Yeah its super useful. Although the detection of it is not perfect. Sometimes you end up inserting a space (:

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by chrismorgan »

aasasd wrote: post #83
chrismorgan wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just now figured I’d try AnySoftKeyboard. Its stock behaviour seems a little weird in places, but I’ll try it for a while and see how it goes. But the real thing that’s annoying me is how uncompromisingly huge it is. Its default behaviour has it consuming a shade under two thirds of the available screen space on my not-inordinately-large phone, compared with under half on the Samsung keyboard in its compact (reduce…

ASK's preferences organization could use some work. What you want is in the ‘select theme’ screen: press the gear, then see ‘keys height factor’.

Ah hah! Thank you. 0.65 is much better. Yeah, that gear thing is terribly placed.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by aasasd »

MayeulC wrote: post #12

I use AnysoftKeyboard (on F-Droid) [1]. I's pretty good, but has issues with the French apostrophe, that's often used to combine words. It also has multiple keyboard layouts, of which "terminal" compares favorably to hacker's keyboard. I like that it is configurable, and has a lot of text editing tools when swiping space up. I admit I lost some typing speed when I switched from the alternatives, but I'm happier with…

Alas ASK could use an influx of developer efforts. Menny Even-Danan seems to be the sole developer (aside from some pull requests), and it looks like other stuff is keeping him busy lately—as in, in the past couple years at least.

I keep being perplexed when people reinvent software instead of joining forces (though I'm fine either way if the result is good). A better swipe-typing algorithm would be great, but even some smaller touches would make ASK much nicer: like, don't add a space after an opening parenthesis when swiping. Not rocket science, but needs someone to dig in the app's workings.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Post by syncbehind »

przmk wrote: post #15

Fun fact, one of my banking app prevents me from launching it if I do not use a "certified" keyboard app. I had bad luck with any keyboard from F-Droid.

Honestly at this point why even bother with banking apps? I've found that most of my banking needs can be done via their mobile-webpages.
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