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What is a good keyboard app for Android? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Ashen to c/[email protected]

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I've been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn't really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the "libjni_latinimegoogle.so" file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select "Load gesture typing library". When it asks you to select a file, select the "libjni" file and swiping should work just fine.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard

That's the fork with swiping.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Don't be a goof like me and install the Neo Store/Fdroid version and spend 15 minutes wondering how to enable swiping, btw. The version on Github which has swipe is from September 2022, a month after the Fdroid/Neo Store release: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too late, I guess ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But don't forget to go into settings and enable the Holo theme for that pure nostalgia goodness :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad this is my first time using openboard so that I don't need this typeof keyboard nostalgia, because, and I don't want to hurt your feelings, BUT, boy, that theme is ugly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sweet! This is more comfortable to use coming from Gboard to ASK. I got used to the issues with ASK but def prefer AOSP keyboards more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, thanks! This swipes indeed.

[–] Ashen 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, this is absolutely fantastic. Thanks a bunch! It's like 85%-90% of my Swiftkey experience, so I'm loving this!