I’m looking to replace gboard and I have spent about a decade using gesture based typing. Is there any alternative that is private that gesture based typing actually work on?
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Futo Keyboard has built in Swype functionality.
Heliboard also has it, but I believe you do have to download Google’s swype libraries to use the functionality. Whether that affects privacy, I don’t know.
Edit: (See calm.like.a.bomb’s comment below)
FUTO keyboard is great but Swype typing is bad, to say the least. Not contradicting you, just adding context. It is classified as “pre-Alpha” by the devs.
HeliBoard but the problem is that you have to download google swipe librairies…
This works just as well as gboard!
Open source or not, my question is, is my typing data consumed by Google in this context? I’m not an expert in the realm of android libraries and their connectivity or lack thereof, but I’m fine with using a closed source library knowing the data stays on my device.
Try to use something like TC (TrackerControl) to restrict the internet connectivity of the app once libraries downloaded.
