I’ve looked at a few on fdroid and they all seem like they aren’t being maintained anymore.
I develop thumb-key, so it’s maintained.
Hey, thumb-key is really cool! I’ve been using it for a bit and it has solved my issue of constantly fat-fingering wrong letters into what I’m trying to type on other keyboards. I just want to say thanks for developing it and keep up the good work!
god bless you
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Typed with thumb-key. This is so hard, but im determined :)
Usually gets much easier after a few days.
I should really use it but I just cant get myself to learn a new layout
is it possible to add auto complete / recomendations?
I think if you read the github description, you’ll find that conflicts with the philosophy. Would be a nice option, though
i love thumbkey!
Based
AOSP 14 works great and has swipe.
Is this available on F-Droid?
Florisboard is a good one.
Yep, hoping they will keep updating… buy still better than most the way it is…
They do, the author just recently started working on it again and welcoming contributions :)
Not every project needs regular maintenance. I can imagine a keyboard to be a finished product, no updates necessary.
I won’t pretend to know how tightly integrated the keyboard is within the Android OS, but given the interoperability between app and keyboard it seems likely that vulnerabilities could be leveraged to gain malicious access to the clipboard and other sensitive data.
+1 for floris, it’s the only keyboard with glide typing and themes are super good.
I use it too but i haven’t figured out how to enable autocorrection.
Which is interesting in a sense because since then i know that i don’t know how to spell most words.
I am inclined to keep it off just so that i have to think a bit more about what i write.
I use Simple Keyboard from F-Droid (rkkr’s, not the one that sold to an ad company) and it’s quite nice.
OpenBoard is great and supports swipe typing using a Google library.
OpenBoard 1.4.5 doesn’t support swiping, i am wrong?
I know there is a fork with swipe support
AnySoftKeyboard
Sadly the development stopped, but still one of the most feature-rich.
So this is definitely not for everyone but Thumb-Key is privacy friendly and designed to be used with just one thumb. I have used Thumb-Key (and it’s predecessor Message Ease) for about 4 years now and they are way easier for me than qwerty, there are fewer buttons so typos are less frequent and you can access all letter/numbers/punctuation while holding your phone one handed.
You sonuvabich beat me by 2 minutes! ಥ_ಥ
What made you initially look for an alt keyboard? I have huge problems hitting the buttons on querty and started by looking for a chorded layout.
I sawa video on MessageEase and thought it was neat. Also, I hate legacy problems like QWERTY… And things like qwerty on phone screens.
Thanks for this. I’m starting to learn it, but already feel like I make less mistakes without autocorrect. Sad as I’m a bad speller.
Omg I’m so frustrated with QWTY on phones I’m giving this a try now!
It’s kinda like Japanese keyboards
In general or just on phones?
On phones
I use SimpleKeyboard with updates disabled
Are there any good privacy focused voice to text keyboards? Or do I need to run whisper on a private server to do that?
Futo voice input.
Pretty impressive
Typing this on OpenBoard __
To type with only one finger, there’s 8Vim.
Florisboard if you want high customizability, clipboard actions and internal (!) history, great privacy option.
Openboard if you want swipe typing and autocomplete.
Thumbkey if you want a keyboard that is made for use with two thumbs.
Unexpeted Keyboard is the one for me. Takes a bit to get used to but I wouldn’t want to use anything else anymore.
