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What android keyboard app do you use and why? (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

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[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I use Fleksy, probably not as popular because it doesn't have swype typing but I find the autocorrect works really well, and it's easy to change the word if you don't like what it corrected to by swiping up or down to different options, and you can swipe left to delete words. Built in gif support too, and there's an extension to make the number row always show.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

Nice! That sounds pretty great (I don't use swipe typing at all so no loss there). When you delete a word from correction, is it only deleting it in that exact situation (our to out), or is it deleting out from the dictionary entirely? Hoping it's the former and that might be exactly what I'm looking for if so.

[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Sorry, to clarify, swiping left is like backspace a word, if I swiped after now it'd delete "now", then "after" if I did it again. If you typed our and it changed to out, you could swipe up and it'd revert back to our.

You can add or remove words from the dictionary by opening the app separately too, but most settings are accessed from the keyboard.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Gboard. I want handwriting for Chinese and afaik no foss keyboard has that.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Gboard but with network permissions turned off. Works great. Haven't had any issues with an autosuggest and swiping. I don't use autocorrect.

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[-] Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Swift key with auto correct cranked to 11. Haven't found any other keyboard yet that lets me smash any nearby keys and have it fix it just fine.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Unexpected Keyboard
https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
Available on F-Droid
You can pretty much configure the whole layout. Not sure about gif support though.

[-] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Multiling-o keyboard might fit the bill.

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[-] november@lemmy.vg 1 points 4 months ago

Mostly Thumb Key, but I'm trying out Heliboard right now thanks to the recommendations here and it's pretty nice. I haven't used a good swiping keyboard for a while.

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[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

are there any good ones for dyslexics? I hate SwiftKey but have yet to find anything that helps with spelling. I know I can use voice to text but sometimes you don't want speak to your phone in a crowded place.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

i used to use touchpal, because I liked that I could swipe up on a key to get the upper case version of the letter, or swipe in other directions to get other variants.

They enshittifies the product a few years back by inserting ads into every app i was using.

These days i just use the android default, but I miss the functionality touchpal had.

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[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Samsung default one seems to get the job done just fine

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I use Gboard, in a swiper

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