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[–] Zotesune_miku@lemmy.zip [S] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Thanks will try!

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 6 months ago

Dunno what languages you talk/use, so going by what I do:

Pretty light and good for European languages from my experience, there's Simple Keyboard: https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/
Heliboard's also great for Korean, if you learn it at some point.
Mozc is technically Google's project, but is on F-Droid and is pretty good for Japanese writing, so kinda of a gray area, I guess: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozc.android.inputmethod.japanese/
Fcitx5-Android is pretty good for Asian languages too, specially if your prefer phonetic keyboards instead of Mozc and Heliboard's visual approach: https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I hate it. Every board is almost exactly wrong. There is always something missing.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

i used AnySoftKeyboard for years. I started using Heliboard recently and i was able to customise it almost as much as ASK.

Heliboard is less buggy and is updated regularly (unlike ASK which is updated once a year or once in 3 years).

I use HB to write in 3 different languages with habits borrowed from each other so i need to be able to personalise any button and its popups, placements &c to my liking.
If you think that "Every board is almost exactly wrong. There is always something missing." then you just don't know how to use heliboard. It's as flexible as ASK.

Settings > Languages and Layouts > 'language of your choice' > Layout
There you can edit the layout and add whatever you think is missing

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Yes. I know. I've tried it all. It's pretty much impossible to get it set up exactly the right way. There is always something missing.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

you can edit the layouts and add what's missing

repetition is risky

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[–] datalogen@feddit.dk 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can also recommend FUTO Keyboard

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[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

I went looking for an offline keyboard a while ago, tried Helibord, but couldn't figure out how to resize the keyboard, which for me is an accessibility issue since I can currently only type one handed.

Ended up going with FUTO for that reason. Swipe and STT sealed the deal.

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[–] cookiecoookie@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

FUTO is great

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Their Swype works but it's a little overly sensitive.

There's an option to install their voice typing with it too.

I'm not going to say that it's perfect, but it is by far better than anything else that's not Google or Android. I do wish it was FOSS, but SA is an acceptable compromise for something that works as well as it does. And as privately as it is.

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[–] JudgmentInevitable45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Unexpected keyboard if you are crazy enough

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[–] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I have it installed for when I need something closer to a computer keyboard on my phone

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[–] JudgmentInevitable45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

I actually manage to daily drive it

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[–] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I like thumbkey

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

Thx, I made that one.

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[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I think I could love thumbkey if I put in the using it time to make it efficient. my first experience using it was too disorienting, so I walked away

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[–] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

yeah took me like 2-3 month to learn it. But now it feels like writing on those old t9. I love it.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Only one I've found bearable in a post-Swype world is heliboard.

Two caveats. First, that you have to do extra work to enable glide typing. It isn't difficult, but it's not something you would automatically think to do.

Second, that it's suggestions are kinda crap lol. It's good at picking up the glide input, but the suggestions it pulls up when it doesn't are sometimes batshit lol.

Coming from Swype, it's not exactly great. But it's on par with gboard in most ways

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[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

i second that ~~emitting~~ ~~emitting~~ emotion....!

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[–] ropatrick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I'm using Heliboard too but yhe correction is really bad. Very frustrating. Have to go back and correct yhe same words all the time. As yiu can see here, it still has not learned that yhe should be the. And yiu also.

Just goes to show how bad my manual typing is!

I'm.tolerating it but its immensely annoying.

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[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Heliboard is pretty good