I am using the default samsung keyboard and I feel like thats not that good for privacy (tho still way better than microslop or google) js there any alternative that you would suggest ?

    • Starya67@lemmy.world
      41·
      19 hours ago

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

      • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 hours ago

        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

    • BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 hours 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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      13 hours 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.

    • Stitch0815@feddit.org
      31·
      16 hours ago

      I use the futo keyboard too

      And yes i know I know.

      Futo is sus

      But they can absolutly not be worse than big tech and make the best keyboard for me

        • Stitch0815@feddit.org
          1·
          9 hours ago

          They invented their own license after facing backlash

          Calling it source available.

          They have/had people on their sponsor site that dont know about it.

          Tbh did not really follow it that much

          I personally think often times the outcry of the open source community is overblown.

          I follow and watch companies and entities over years, actions speak louder than words. And oftentimes (in the open source world) people actually do change for the better just not 5 minutes after am angry mob called them a vibecoding stupid cunt.

          Long story short.

          Bit of suss behavior by futo, but since then it’s been really quite around them and they continue to deliver banger software that might not be open source but source available

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    21 hours ago

    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

    • ropatrick@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 hours 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.