The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I’ve heard, it sends all typing data to Google’s server. If you ask me, that’s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I installed all three.

      OpenBoard has no swiping support at all.

      AnySoftKeyboard is glitchy, moving the cursor around unexpectedly and inserting spurious characters.

      FlorisBoard’s swiping is very inaccurate, to the point that it’s barely faster than typing characters one-by-one.

      I hope this situation improves soon…

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    1 year ago

    FOSS is not just about privacy! Freedom is that important reason you should care about. FlorisBoard is my suggestion for you.

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      1 year ago

      Used FlorisBoard for a good while, it’s the perfect replacement imo. I don’t remember exactly but there was a certain feature missing for me so I uninstalled it but it may have been implemented by now.

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      1 year ago

      Yesterday I installed Grapheneos so I’ve swapped to florisboard. Not bad but it’s very specific on where you swipe using gestures. I’m slowly getting used to it but gboard was a lot more forgiving.

  • Rafael D Martins@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    I dropped gboard and started using FlorisBoard. It’s a lot more crude and don’t have the same features, but I’m very happy with it and will not go back.

    I preffer my privacy over features, and using the software and reporting feedback helps it betting better.

    We really need to ditch Google.