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OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

#1

Post by mikepechadotcom » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 10:43 AM UTC

OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy
github.com

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#2

Post by ThePhysicist » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 10:55 AM UTC

Great project. It's funny that we are at a point where even keyboard apps are spying on your personal and private data. Crazy.

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#3

Post by StavrosK » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 10:56 AM UTC

I would love it if we could get something like SwiftKey, but actively developed. Its predictions are magic, but lately it has been getting more and more buggy, suggesting words that don't exist, changing already-correct words to nonsense, and refusing to learn.

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#4

Post by older » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:07 AM UTC

Is it better than Hacker's Keyboard? https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

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#5

Post by SftwreEngnr » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

older wrote: post #4

Is it better than Hacker's Keyboard? https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

Who cares?

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#6

Post by philips » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:10 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #3

I would love it if we could get something like SwiftKey, but actively developed. Its predictions are magic, but lately it has been getting more and more buggy, suggesting words that don't exist, changing already-correct words to nonsense, and refusing to learn.

I am experiencing the same issues with GBoard: suggestions just getting worse and worse.

I dug through the settings and haven’t seen anything obvious.

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#7

Post by Kinrany » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:12 AM UTC

I use Fleksy, its predictions and gesture controls are fantastic. Is there an open keyboard that does the same?

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#8

Post by popeathlete » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:21 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #3

I would love it if we could get something like SwiftKey, but actively developed. Its predictions are magic, but lately it has been getting more and more buggy, suggesting words that don't exist, changing already-correct words to nonsense, and refusing to learn.

Try AnySoftKeyboard. Works great and is FOSS.

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#9

Post by _trampeltier » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:22 AM UTC

ThePhysicist wrote: post #2

Great project. It's funny that we are at a point where even keyboard apps are spying on your personal and private data. Crazy.

Yes, a keyboard app just should not allowed to have a network connection, but yeah, a thing to dream in 2021.

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#10

Post by 2Gkashmiri » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 11:23 AM UTC

How is this different from AnySoftKeyboard ? I have been using that for a long time now