FlorisBoard is in f-droid, and has swipe. What it doesn’t currently have, and has been in the “to do” list for - I don’t know, over a year - is autocorrect. This makes swipe far less effective than on other boards. But it does work well; there are just a lot of spelling errors to fix.
It freezes. For minutes at a time. Not often, but minutes are too long, and you cannot kill it. Also, it auto hides in the middle of typing when you type “too fast”, there are words you simply cannot swipe (“never” being one), some that constantly are guessed wrong (common words replaced by a rather obscure alternative), and sometimes, when you type “too fast”, the cursor moves one or to positions backwards as you type.
Honestly I appreciate the effort it must have been to code, but I’m sad it has all those issues. That being said, it is still more usable than Florisboard…
The best one I found so far was the AOSP keyboard with swiping enabled via a proprietary blob. But, well, it’s not entirely opensource…
If it’s feature complete, a keyboard doesn’t need regular updates. According to the other thread it’s not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it’s FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.
FlorisBoard is in f-droid, and has swipe. What it doesn’t currently have, and has been in the “to do” list for - I don’t know, over a year - is autocorrect. This makes swipe far less effective than on other boards. But it does work well; there are just a lot of spelling errors to fix.
Yeah after a while I found I had this issue. Now switched to AnySoftKeyboard and it seems to have what I need.
I switched the other way, but I honestly don’t remember why. I’ll have to try AnySoft again.
It freezes. For minutes at a time. Not often, but minutes are too long, and you cannot kill it. Also, it auto hides in the middle of typing when you type “too fast”, there are words you simply cannot swipe (“never” being one), some that constantly are guessed wrong (common words replaced by a rather obscure alternative), and sometimes, when you type “too fast”, the cursor moves one or to positions backwards as you type.
Honestly I appreciate the effort it must have been to code, but I’m sad it has all those issues. That being said, it is still more usable than Florisboard…
The best one I found so far was the AOSP keyboard with swiping enabled via a proprietary blob. But, well, it’s not entirely opensource…
The problem is that It looks abandoned. Not a new release in a year
If it’s feature complete, a keyboard doesn’t need regular updates. According to the other thread it’s not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it’s FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.
It’s “early beta”. It has been for 15 months. This doesn’t qualify as a software that “doesn’t need updates”.
Edit: there have been commits, just no releases or tags…
I agree in this case.
But there’s a narrative that software needs regular updates or it’s worthless, but some things are just done and stable.