I’m looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I’ve found:
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?
Here’s my lazy and unpopular solution
Ill go ahead and snail mail my boss lol.
All good but Florisboard has an internal clipboard with past entries. If you use its buttons (change in the settings, top row) and not the android ones, the system never gets your clipboard
Related: how good privacy wise is the default AOSP keyboard found in no-Google-services ROMs like Lineage and /e/? Does it still phone home?
There isn’t “the best one”, there are multiply private keyboards. Just test them all and look which one is the best for your use cases, you can also use multiply.
Seems like you haven’t found yours yet.
I did, Florisboard and Openbord are my choices.
I was just being a dick because of all the typos you had in there.
Got a new phone with a different screen size, still not used to it.
Any keyboard with no internet permission should be “privacy-respecting”, as it can’t (as I understand it) send any data back to the developers. I’m personally a big fan of Unexpected Keyboard, though it’s definitely something to get used to.
Privacy respecting, but not open source:
Typewise
(Also a lot less typos and faster writing once you get used to it.)
Any of them have good support for foldables? (I.e. Full keyboard on cover screen, thumb keyboard on main screen)
I use Gboard but with internet access disabled for it. I haven’t found a comparable open source keyboard yet.
Anyone know if it’s actually open source or if it has blobs?
Gboard isn’t open source, which is why I disable internet access for it.
Just adding Simple Keyboard here as well. It has no features besides typing. It’s literally just a keyboard. Been using it for a bit and like it, but it won’t be for everyone.
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I use OpenBoard. It’s good, but my only problem is the lack of images being copied to the clipboard unlike my default keyboard.
I use FlorisBoard. It’s not perfect, but it has a fully featured clipboard and undo-redo functionality. Missing the swipe tho.
FlorisBoard has swipe
Only for english, which isn’t my main language.
Try Thumb-Key. It’s a keyboard made by Lemmy’s main developer. It uses a rather exotic layout, but once you get used to it, it is so much better than qwerty.
Oh wow, that is different.
I use openboard but it gets me mad sometimes when I start deleting characters and it removes the space between the last word…sometimes it’s really annoying!
That’s a Jerboa bug with any keyboard AFAICT. Insane how this hasn’t been fixed yet.
That weirdly only happens on jerboa for me
Is it while using Jeroba for Lemmy? I had that problem with that app so I switched to Sync for that reason.
That’s due to a bug with the AOSP keyboard that google has been ignoring for like 6 years.
It’s a long shot, but does anyone know if CJK languages (not romanizations) are supported in any of these?
The alpha version of FlorisBoard has preliminary support for shape based Chinese layouts so you can write 汉字／漢字 with say, Cangjie or Zhengma. It also has the JIS kana layout for Japanese. Although, it doesn’t support Kanji Substitution yet, but you could use the shape based Chinese layouts for that in the meanwhile. As for Korean, it’s supported but no Hanja support yet.
While there isn’t a release for it yet, you can take any release artifact from the GitHub Actions CI and it should have it.
