The best (mostly) open source keyboard solution I've found

There are a whole lot of different keyboard solutions on Android, and let’s be honest: a lot of the offerings aren’t great. While many of them have strengths, I initially struggled in my de-googling of my life to find a keyboard that had everything I wanted with regards to layout, swipe typing, and voice input. What follows is the best method I’ve been able to come up with (credit to the cowboy-hatted individual who clued in me into FUTO voice).

  • keyez@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been using Heliboard with the swipe typing library for about a year and it’s been really good. only issue I have is for some reason the keyboard stops correcting until a restart, I’ll type a word with 2 letters wrong, the suggestion will be on the bar and it won’t replace it.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Transcribro uses the same engine as FUTO Voice but is actually open source.

    Unfortunately I can’t use any keyboard other than GBoard simply because no one else has figured out swipe typing yet.

  • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    The swipe typing on Heliboard can be a bit rough, and I have this issue where sometimes when the keyboard comes up, it isn’t fully featured ie, swiping doesn’t work and I can’t bring up the copy/paste menu.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Hey that’s what I’m using.

    Do any of y’all know how to add emoji search with the .dict file?