I’ve been using SwiftKey for waaaaaaay too long. I shoulda switched when Microsoft bought them out.

But old habits die hard. And I love the skin I use.

Help they know everything I’ve typed on a phone. That can’t be good for anyone.

Edit: Holy fuck everyone, thanks for all of the responses!

I went with Heliboard, and typing this, it looks like I have to change a couple more settings to get it like I had Swiftkey, but I already like it more.

The fact you can basically make your own skin by changing all of the colors of the keyboard is amazing.

Fuck microsoft’s ai keyboard.

Heliboard for lyfe!

Edit edit: trying to delete my data from Swiftkey was INSANELY hard. I couldn’t do it from my phone, so I had to login with a computer. They think they are slick… Fuckers…

    • moon@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Spent a bit of time customising it when I got it, and it’s saved me so much frustration over the past year. Copy pasting, tabbing, having an undo via keyboard, moving character with an arrow. I enjoy typing with a touchscreen now. Would recommend it to anyone wholeheartedly.

  • MapTheft@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Been using Florisboard for a while. It is the most like gboard, although the swipe typing is not as good. All in all though, I’d still recommend.

  • billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Simple Keyboard on fdroid. Others have more features, but I can’t switch. The swipe delete and swipe to move cursor are so smooth and I can’t make any other keyboards work as well for me. I wanted florisboard to work, but it just felt clunky

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Thanks for the recommendation. I see there’s gesture typing support if you load a library. Which one do you use if any?

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I use Gboard cause it’s the only keyboard that has the preferences that I want. I’m on GrapheneOS, so I just disable the network connection for Gboard.

      • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Autocorrect, not removing my corrections after I hit the backspace key, being able to disable the suggestion boxes, being able to customize it to my liking, and a couple other things that I’m currently forgetting about.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    irregular expressions.

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      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

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  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m also a Swiftkey holdover, trying Heliboard now…

    Is there a keyboard that can do haptic feedback while typing and enable multiple languages at the same time? These two features are really missing for me.

      • beSyl@slrpnk.net
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        3 months ago

        How does it do multilingual typing? You have to change the input method, right?

        • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          Not necessarily: you can choose to have several languages separated as different input methods (you can switch between them very quickly by sliding vertically from the space bar) OR you can go to “Settings / Languages” and select one of your active languages and inside its submenu add languages for multilingual typing. This way when you select that original language as input method it will use and recognise all the languages you added at once. I must say this can be tricky with glide typing, but still works pretty well.

    • xyx@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      +1 vor HeliBoard. I was in the same position and switched about half a year ago. The only thing I missing so far is a dedicated voice input button.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thank you for making this!

      I really need to try making something for Android, looks like fun

    • Muun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I use this after messagease suddenly decided to charge a subscription fee.

      It’s pretty darn close in functionality. Highly recommend taking the time to learn it.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Thx! Ya the main reason I made it, was because messagease development died, and all my emails to the messagease team (their only contact email) went unanswered for like 2+ years. So it seemed like a good opportunity to do a from-scratch open source rewrite.

        • Muun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I actually forked your code so I could customize the keyboard a little bit. I was impressed that I didn’t have any problems building the thing right away. Doesn’t always happen for me with open source projects.

          One thing that was driving me nuts was how sensitive the swipe gestures on the spacebar are. I guess my thumbs always do a slight swipe when I’m pressing space and it was moving the cursor position on me. I wiped out all of that code. If you’re taking suggestions, a way to disable swipe gestures on the spacebar would be a cool add. I’ll see if I can get together a PR for it as well and be a part of the solution.

    • Xanis@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I appreciate that it’s made for my thumbs as opposed to other, less keyboard optimal digits.

    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Hey! I tried your keyboard out when I was setting up my new phone - very cool and innovative idea!

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Darn it, I popped into this thread to suggest Thumb-Key, and was beaten to it by the maker of the keyboard!

      Thank you for making my phone usage much faster and enjoyable (written using Thumb-Key of course!) :)