I use Gboard, as I’m on Android.
Do you use Gboard or the clipboard feature? Or use a similar feature of an other keyboard app?
Do you use apps like NetGuard or TrackerControl to restrict net access to the keyboard apps?
Have tried some FOSS apps some years ago, but didn’t stay on them because, Malayalam(my mother tongue) and the handwriting mode(which is quite good), is not available in most other apps.
I had thought about turning on the clipboard history option and am thinking about the privacy/security aspect behind it. As per Gboard, it remembers history for 1 hour and there seems to be no sync option. So it seems sort-of safe. Thinking about such things since I do copy-paste OTP’s.
I use futo board. I like that it had the ability to process speech to text locally. I personally also disable the clipboard
I only use FOSS ones. I hop between florisboard and unexpected keyboard, and I gave heliboard a shot again recently because it has the swipe/glide typing but I couldn’t stick with it because I was missing other features, so I’m back on floris.
Since I only use open source keyboards, I’m not really concerned about privacy…so no blocking of internet access.
I also thought about trying out the clipboard history, and also am wondering if it’s safe…
If you want to try FOSS keyboard again, HeliBoard is your best bet.
Florisboard looks nice - I’m using Unexpected myself due to customizability but Floris seems plenty customizable while being a little nicer and simpler. Will have to test it a bit
Thank you.
Will look into Heliboard. Does it have a Handwriting mode?Unfortunately no.
I don’t think there is a FOSS one that supports it.I have Heliboard and it works great.
Not sure if it’s different but I use swipe on it and I love it.
Heliboard, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.
I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid
Heliboard was the closest to Gboard imo. It would be better though if it supports Japanese input.
Same here. I use Heliboard.
since I do copy OTP’s
OTPs*
Yep. Will edit that
FUTO keyboard
Just installed it today. Significantly improved voice typing over Google and its processed locally on your device, not server side like everything Google.
You can upgrade your voice typing model anytime over their website.
OpenBoard. FOSS. No predictions or swiping though.
IIRC Openboard is not maintained, move to heliboard.
Oh. Thank you for the information and recommendation. Will have to update.
Apple keyboard and I hate it. Gboard for Apple is lame, and most of the others available are paid but I also suspect could be lame, so I don’t want to take the risk.
Inkwell , it’s a florisboard fork , gonna install Heliboard instead… yes I enable clipboard history and even pin items
I use SwiftKey and switch off the app access to the Internet.
Also trying out FUTO keyboard. Seems pretty good.
What do you use to switch off the internet access for it?
Certain Android versions… when you go into any app settings you can disable mobile data or WiFi if you don’t want the app to access.
Tap and hold on the app -> app info -> network access -> block whatever you want.
Thanks, it doesn’t look like the stock pixel supports it.
At the moment I don’t use any keyboard app. I haven’t found any that I really like. I used to use gboard which was nice before I became privacy concious and realised gboard could be tracking every key press I make.
If I am going to use a keyboard app I wouldn’t use anything unless it is FOSS software.
So how do you use your phone? Every time you type something you use a keyboard app. It might just be the one that was shipped with android (Samsung keyboard, gboard, etc)
Fair point didn’t think of that. I do use the default keyboard app I guess. Is it possible samsung records keyboard information keystrokes etc?
Try heliboard. It’s FOSS, and it’s based off the keyboard in AOSP, which should basically be gboard.
Thumbkey.
I simply use the default iOS keyboard.
I use HeliBoard because I have to switch between 5 languages (German, Polish, English, Swedish and Korean) constantly and it does it for the most part (other than the korean) automatically for me.
I didn’t think of clipboard history yet, but I know that Keepass2Android deletes the copied passwords after a while, that’s kind of good enough for me.
It seems with Heliboard you have to switch between languages rather than having it detected automatically. It also doesn’t support swiping so not really a replacement for Swiftkey yet, for me at least.
It automatically switches languages on Duolingo for me.
You set up which languages you want to have there and then it switches between them when you just start writing automatically.
I just tried it again but for me it doesn’t switch automatically. It’s quite annoying since I often write local addresses etc between English sentences
Go to https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/FAQ search for Multilingual typing and follow how to set it up.
If the language doesn’t use the Latin alphabet then it won’t work, like for me with Korean.
Oh boy, where do I start. FOSS mostly
- 8Vim - when I’m drunk or moving a lot
- DotDash - when I wan’t to write with morse code just for fun.
- Hackers keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff
- Unexpected keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff and when I need a lot of special characters.
- Thumb-key - when I really have only one hand to write
- Traditional T9 - when I write English and want a good auto-complete.
- Kboard - for my kamoji needs and often reoccurring short messages.
