The only app I canโ€™t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboardโ€™s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. Iโ€™d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what Iโ€™ve heard, it sends all typing data to Googleโ€™s server. If you ask me, thatโ€™s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

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Since nobody has suggested it, Iโ€™m adding AnySoft Keyboard to the list of alternatives. It takes some time to train custom words but after that itโ€™s actually quite nice. Even the swipe typing works quite well. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard/

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Just installed it. Swipe typing seems to sort of work, although itโ€™s even less accurate than Gboard. Still, I think Iโ€™ll keep it, at least for a while.

I do wish for a physical keyboard, thoughโ€ฆ Wouldnโ€™t need gesture recognition then.

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