There are more than 100,000 words and phrases that the tech giant has restricted its predictive text from completing, research shows

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[–] 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Others like Swiftkey do it too. I'm considering moving to an alternative (privacy isn't a concern on GOs)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I use heliboard, it has almost everything I need

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Downloaded it, but apparently it doesn't support swipe mode?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Yes it does, but it needs to be enabled, and you need to load an external gesture typing library. As of now, Google's is unfortunately the most robust.

    Go into Heliboard's settings, in the Advanced menu, at the very very bottom, there is a "Load gesture typing" option.

    After you load a library, the gesture typing menus become visible, and you can customize it as much as you need.

    Also, they recently started an opt-in gesture typing collection, to make an open source gesture typing library, which will eliminate the need for Google's library, so if you like swiping, you can help by participating!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I've had SwiftKey for so long but Microsoft hasn't done anything to make it better and keeps adding bloat to make it worse. I didn't know they had a word greylist. I've had Florisboard installed but it's still in beta with no spellchecker. I'll have to try Heliboard again.

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