I’ve been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn’t really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the “libjni_latinimegoogle.so” file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select “Load gesture typing library”. When it asks you to select a file, select the “libjni” file and swiping should work just fine.

      • Ashen@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for this, btw. The fork that has swiping enabled hasn’t been updated for over a year at this point :/

        u/sudo22 has mentioned that a library is required to enable swiping, but I don’t have a clue on how to download/use it. I’ll try figuring it out.

        Edit : Figured it out, the app allows you to import the libjni_latinimegoogle.so file if you’ve downloaded it.

        • FarLine99@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I was very pleased with how well swipe input works with this library. After finding this fork, I stopped using GBoard, which I am very happy about :)

          • Ashen@sh.itjust.worksOP
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            1 year ago

            Yes! Also the original, actively developed Open Board has a vastly superior auto correct. I’ve just been using it for a couple hours now but I absolutely love it.

            My typing speed was really good in SwiftKey because of it’s autocorrect. I felt hindered with the previous fork, but this one is absolutely wonderful. I’m about 90-95% there.

      • curiousmonkey@lemdro.idEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I downloaded that, but gesture support is no working. Do we have to do something else. I already turned on the gesture support option in settings, what am I missing?

        • FarLine99@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You should download this file to your phone. Then in additional settings you should choose load gesture typing library and choose this file. That’s it.

          • curiousmonkey@lemdro.idEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Done it, still not working. Do we have to restart for it to effect??? i even turned on show glide trail, but nothing

            • Ashen@sh.itjust.worksOP
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              1 year ago

              It worked for me without restarting. Lemme know if you’re still interested in trying it out, maybe it can be troubleshot.

      • itsbledley@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yes probably. It’s a compromise and not ideal. I revoke internet access and on Graphene OS not tied to a Google account. We all find our own peace with this kind of thing. Florisboard looked very promising but the swipe text wasn’t implemented last I checked.