And also proprietary, as it’s distributed under source-available license:
https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file
What’s the pushback against it? I like that you can modify and publish version of it as long as it’s noncommercial
Edit: I don’t understand the down votes, I’m trying to learn - what are the downsides of this thatkmake so unpopular?
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Switched to this a couple weeks ago. I’m used to swipe typing on gboard. Unfortunately the swipe typing on FUTO is nowhere near useable for me yet. The accuracy is horrendous, and much of the time it just gives up on inputting any word at all.
Unfortunately swiping on Gboard has been my main method of typing for more than a decade. I’m so accustomed to it that I can type full sentences without even looking at my phone.
So in an effort to improve my privacy (by discontinuing my use of a piece of keylogging spyware as a keyboard) I’ve sacrificed the speed of swipe typing. Everything takes much longer to type now. Worth it? I guess I’ll keep trying for a month or so and decide then.
Just FYI you can use a firewall app on device to block Gboard internet access.
It can communicate via play services if you have that
Any more information on this?
Agreed. From what I can tell the swiping is inaccurate as you have to touch each letter perfectly for it to register where as on gboard being near to or adjacent to a letter is sufficient for it to guess the correct word
I had switched to HeliBoard in order to de-Google as much as possible. I’m not militant about it, but if there’s an alternative I’ll take it.
Decided to try out FUTO because I felt like I was missing swipe typing. And it’s good. But for me it’s just too much. It turns out I didn’t really miss swipe typing, and (possibly just a me issue) that extra feature was making FUTO much less responsive than Heliboard. So back I went.
I guess for me, simple and fast is more important than replicating my old Gboard experience. But each person is different.
Heliboard has swipe typing? Just go to the settings and tap on “Gesture Typing”. I believe you have to download a proprietary library for it, though.
Just learned about heliboard. Thank you! Wrote this with that keyboard and glide enabled as the others have said. Loving it!
Whats the general opinion about AnySoftKeyboard?
I’ve tried it, and it’s quite good and heavily customisable, but a pain in the arse if you want to use more than one language. I think their Dutch version doesn’t even work if I recall correctly.
I used AnySoftKeyboard and Florisboard before switching to FUTO They’re both good, but swipe typing is still experimental on both of them. FUTO’s swipe typing is more accurate, and speech-to-text is faster, which is why I personally switched. The one thing I feel AnysoftKeyboard does better is the ability to scroll through suggested words, while FUTO only displays a maximum of 3.
Any idea what languages this keyboard support? I can’t use any open source keyboard yet as all doesn’t have good multi lingual support and typing.
It has alot of languages. Depending on what your looking for the voice is good the options are nice. Pair it with openboard and its a gem.
Just donated last night. I’ve been using this keyboard for the past month. I switched over from gboard. While I’ve never really used speech to text I’m just glad that this keyboard is so privacy focused. You can swap out the llms too if it fits your style
I like the idea of the keyboard being offline and the LLM stuff but so far I can’t see a way for multi language input. I’m guessing it’s too early in the alpha state for that but I will keep an eye open for it, it is a promising project. In the meantime I’ll test the heliboard others were mentioning.
No keyboard besides SwiftKey and gboard have accented characters for devanagari script.
Every opensource one is a dealbreaker, and i dont know how to fix it myself.
Checking this out now! So far I like it. Only think I lose from using Gboard is the access to gifs, but I can work around that.
Privacy wise you should really have internet disabled for Gboard anyways which already disables the gif functionality.
Signal has privacy-friendly GIF access.
I love Heliboard, but this is already giving me much better autocorrect, I’m not finding myself actively avoiding typing from my phone now, so it’s a win to me
Gonna give it a shot. Can’t be any worse than the default Android Keeb
It’s good. I use it. Whoever made it did a great job.
It’s fairly good. I find the autocorrect to be poor and result in a much lower typing speed though.
I haven’t ventured past the stock keyboard in a long while. What’s the status on swipe typing on foss android keyboards? I want to switch away from the stock oem keyboard app
What’s the status on swipe typing on foss android keyboards?
Some have it, some don’t. Idk why but I heard the swipe functionality relies on some kind of Google library that you can install manually on some FOSS keyboards if they don’t have the feature. Idk if it’s safe for privacy though. I never learned swipe keyboards anyways so here I’m on the “just don’t use it” side :) (jk)
