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!

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    1 year ago

    This fork is actively developed, supports gestures amd many other features. Try it!

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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?

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        1 year ago

        Yup. Gesture support is really good in my experience. Thank you, Google! I hate you but sometimes…

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      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.

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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 :)

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          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.

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        1 year ago

        yup! same here. this fork have me ability to finally leave GBoard. it is awesome!