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New Florisboard beta introduces addon support (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Without suggestions/predictions and auto-correction it’s unable especially for a lazy user like me. Hopefully someone makes extensions for them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

FlorisBoard is my favourite FLOSS Android keyboard. Waiting for swype-typing feature to be implemented to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

HeliBoard has it for some time now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It has a proprietary Google's implementation.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With Samsung's AI grammar correction, I can't put it down.

If you're willing to implement something like this, it would be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Grammar or spelling?

What does it correct that you need?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Gogle has it too, if you're writng an email itll fix grammer spelling. punctuation , etc!

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

I think it's literally a Grammerly addon (but I'm not OP)

I'd be interested in one for LanguageTool instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What is language tool?

Edit: Oh hey, I use this in Thunderbird. It's great!

Link

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

Everything from grammar to spelling and even the typing style. It's really fast and direct, completely free. It uses AI to do all the work and works with almost every language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't used the Samsung keyboard in years so I don't know what the comparison would be. I do think that for the most part, FOSS keyboards lag a couple years behind Google, Microsoft, etc. This is one that looks promising, but is still a long way off from a “complete” app.

I guess it depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a number of private keyboards now to choose from, but if you trust Samsung (Google, MS, etc.) with your keyboard data then it may make it worth the upgrade in features

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

No, I really don't trust Samsung or Google or any other company with my data, but I can't ignore such a great future like this. It's that good.