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Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #61
Jeff_Brown wrote: post #46

When I go to enable it I get 'may be able to collect all the data you type, including ... passwords'. 'may be able to'? How is this not knowable? Do I have to wait for effect systems to gain popularity before installations make sense?

"May be able" refers to collect, which is entirely up to the app. It does have access to password as you write them with it. It doesn't know what you're writing and it MAY collect. But it's not clear if it does collect.

But does it have network access, or access to other apps (perhaps via shared storage)? There's no reason for it to have any of that, and there exist systems for tracking whether an app can do those things.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by WillAdams »

dotancohen wrote: post #73
WillAdams wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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+

I loved the stylus on my Note 10 Lite so much that when the phone was irreparably damaged I replaced it with another identical Note 10 Lite. I'm now on an S24 Ultra and won't consider a new phone without a built-in stylus.

I dread having to replace my Note 10+ (kind of wish I'd future-proofed a bit by waiting for the 5G model) --- it has a wonderful synergy w/ my Kindle Scribe, Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 and the Wacom One attached to my MacBook, since they all use the same Wacom EMR styluses.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by max8539 »

fragmede wrote: post #72
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #55

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> Like 80% of the world is smartphone-only Ok, but you still can't get actual work done on a smartphone with any efficiency. > 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. Kids are stupid. We were stupid when we were their age too. They will learn eventually that to get serious wo…

I know multiple successful business owners who don't have laptops and run everything off their phone, or at most an iPad. I personally need a laptop to be useful, but it's a mistake to think that just because that's true for you, it extends to everyone else.

People are used to it, yes, but I’m still not sure about the efficiency. Even screen size makes a real difference when you want to see more data on one screen or switch between windows quickly to compare sources

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by papaly1983 »

I'm Marco the Keybee Keyboard creator. Thank you really really a lot for your comments. Now Keybee keyboard is totally free and open source so all your ideas and suggestions migth be available one day. Btw I just wanted to make typing more natural and comfortable, I really struggle with qwerty on touches. (ps: written with keybee keyboard of course).

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by papaly1983 »

az09mugen wrote: post #33

I 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 ?

Keybee Keyboard uses a third party api called one-signal for push notifications, so they need the device location.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by papaly1983 »

adzm wrote: post #59
alterom wrote: post #49

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I can touch-type with flow typing in GBoard at this point. That's to say, I'm writing this comment on my Android phone without looking at the keyboard. QWERTY is in my muscle memory in such a way that words have become writable as single stroke characters. I really, really doubt this Keybee thing can be an improvement over that in any way.

I really want to see the visualization of words as the swipe typing patterns. I tried doing it on paper and realized I couldn't understand it just by looking but once I started visualizing it and swiping in my head I could start to get a feel for it. The tricky part is figuring out where in the keyboard the stroke begins

I also would like to implement all those texting algorithms but I need the help of the open source community at this moment. Cheers!.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by papaly1983 »

Bolwin wrote: post #82

Looks like a copy of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.icoaching.t... . I don't know which one can't first. I tried typewise. Decided it wasn't really worth it.

Typewise came later and their approach is very different than Keybee Keyboard. They only shares the hey keyshape but on a qwerty layout.

Re: Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones

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Post by papaly1983 »

eviks wrote: post #75

Great idea, keyboards on phones are pretty bad, though a bit ironic to have a taller keyboard with the message about not eating pixels Also it's missing alternative symbols that you could get by holding a key, so for example, inserting a single number or a quote isn't convenient. And it's missing all the other ergonomic gesture advantages of hold+move gestures The video is also misleading, there are no gaps between k…

Even Swiftkey dropped from iOs. Main reason for me to dismiss Keybee Keyboard from iOs is that for some forms (like password) you are forced to use the apple keyboard. That's a no-go for me.
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