cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141
I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that’s under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I’ve seen recommended haven’t been updated in over a year some three years. I don’t mind if it’s a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.
For anyone who didn’t read the linked cross post: he’s looking for FOSS Android on-screen keyboard.
I tried several and settled on the open board fork that has swipe typing.
Sorry. I eventually edited my post. But edits don’t federate well for some reason. How do you get swipe on openboard?
You don’t. You just install the fork that already has it:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
FlorisBoard used to be my keyboard, but a couple months ago I found the Unexpected Keyboard. Both keyboards don’t have spell suggestion.
FlorisBoard didn’t have update for almost a year, but the developer is still working on it. The Unexpected Keyboard had an update last month.
Between those keyboards I prefer the Unexpected Keyboard.
I tried Floris recently. It looks really promising, but I found the swipe input to be maddeningly frustrating - obscure words chosen over common alternatives etc. That was the reason I most wanted to migrate from Gboard. Alas. There’s still nothing out there in this respect which beats the old Swype back in the day for me (though of course it wasn’t FOSS).
squeekboard - https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard
