I’ve looked at a few on fdroid and they all seem like they aren’t being maintained anymore.
Edit: I’ve spent the past day trying most all of the suggested keyboards here and I think I’ve landed on either Unexpected Keyboard or AnySoftKeyboard. Thanks for all the suggestions. Thumbkey is quite the thing to get used to.
I develop thumb-key, so it’s maintained.
Typed with thumb-key. This is so hard, but im determined :)
Usually gets much easier after a few days.
Hey, thumb-key is really cool! I’ve been using it for a bit and it has solved my issue of constantly fat-fingering wrong letters into what I’m trying to type on other keyboards. I just want to say thanks for developing it and keep up the good work!
I should really use it but I just cant get myself to learn a new layout
Based
is it possible to add auto complete / recomendations?
Florisboard is a good one.
AnySoftKeyboard
Sadly the development stopped, but still one of the most feature-rich.
Not every project needs regular maintenance. I can imagine a keyboard to be a finished product, no updates necessary.
I won’t pretend to know how tightly integrated the keyboard is within the Android OS, but given the interoperability between app and keyboard it seems likely that vulnerabilities could be leveraged to gain malicious access to the clipboard and other sensitive data.
Probably that would be an Android vulnerability.
So this is definitely not for everyone but Thumb-Key is privacy friendly and designed to be used with just one thumb. I have used Thumb-Key (and it’s predecessor Message Ease) for about 4 years now and they are way easier for me than qwerty, there are fewer buttons so typos are less frequent and you can access all letter/numbers/punctuation while holding your phone one handed.
It’s kinda like Japanese keyboards
In general or just on phones?
On phones
You sonuvabich beat me by 2 minutes! ಥ_ಥ
What made you initially look for an alt keyboard? I have huge problems hitting the buttons on querty and started by looking for a chorded layout.
I sawa video on MessageEase and thought it was neat. Also, I hate legacy problems like QWERTY… And things like qwerty on phone screens.
Omg I’m so frustrated with QWTY on phones I’m giving this a try now!
I’ve only ever known qwerty for phones, what else is there lol
Thanks for this. I’m starting to learn it, but already feel like I make less mistakes without autocorrect. Sad as I’m a bad speller.
+1 for floris, it’s the only keyboard with glide typing and themes are super good.
I use it too but i haven’t figured out how to enable autocorrection.
Which is interesting in a sense because since then i know that i don’t know how to spell most words.
I am inclined to keep it off just so that i have to think a bit more about what i write.
As of the latest version (v0.4.0-alpha04) autocorrect isn’t implimented yet. Here’s what I get when I open the settings:
Waiting on that myself.
Florisboard if you want high customizability, clipboard actions and internal (!) history, great privacy option.
Openboard if you want swipe typing and autocomplete.
Thumbkey if you want a keyboard that is made for use with two thumbs.
Typing this on OpenBoard __
I suggestion a Open board with swipe function. https://github.com/Helium314/openboard Swiping this on Openboard 🦾🦾
I use Simple Keyboard from F-Droid (rkkr’s, not the one that sold to an ad company) and it’s quite nice.
Are there any good privacy focused voice to text keyboards? Or do I need to run whisper on a private server to do that?
Futo voice input.
Pretty impressive
Amaze balls thanks so much
I use SimpleKeyboard with updates disabled
Unexpeted Keyboard is the one for me. Takes a bit to get used to but I wouldn’t want to use anything else anymore.
To type with only one finger, there’s 8Vim.
AOSP 14 works great and has swipe.
