Anyone tried this? Works perfectly for me. Any reason why I should go back to the OpenBoard fork with Swipe?

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Does it actually have swipe typing? I just downloaded to check and it doesn’t seem like it does.

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        1 year ago

        Jeez, I tried it before and just tried again now and I can not find the swipe to text option. I think I’m either blind or stupid. I hope I’m not both

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            1 year ago

            Dude !! You made a video in order to help me ?! Thank you so much.

            I don’t have the option for gesture typing though. I have this version installed:

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              1 year ago

              That’s bizarre. That’s the same version I have. The only thing I can think of is that your system language isn’t English and maybe it removes that option. ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ If that is the case it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t work for different languages.

              You could try switching the system language to verify that that is what is happening. I have no idea what kind of effort it takes to add that feature for other languages but you could always ask the Dev.

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              1 year ago

              Maybe it doesn’t work for French? Or just the gui option isn’t exposed for French, idk… Try switching Android language to English, see what happens.

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          1 year ago

          Are you sure you have the fork with gesture typing support? They’re both called OpenBoard with no external distinction.

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          1 year ago

          Florisboard also has gesture typing, however i rarely use it. I find i make a lot more mistakes than i did swipe typing with gboard

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            1 year ago

            It doesn’t have suggestions tho, so swipe is kinda useless if you don’t get the right word.

            And the rebooted version has been in alpha development for so long, it’s essentially dead.

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        1 year ago

        Hey fellow Lemmy … Thx a lot for this tip!

        Was messing around with floris today, which is nice … But funding this fork is great - missed swiping more than expected

        Unfortunately the development seems stale

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          1 year ago

          I like openboard because of the similarities to gboard and this fits the bill well. However I do agree that this fork doesn’t seem active. But I have a feeling that perhaps it was just a personal project to add swipe to openboard.