I was definitely more excited for this project when they didn't randomly abandon it for over a year and a half unannounced. Also spell check is still non-functional. That feature seems like a requirement, otherwise it'd be an amazing keyboard. In fact, I'd say it would be the best.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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I agree. I dropped it recently for a non-FOSS alternative because I just can't deal with the lack of predictive text/autocorrect
HeliBoard is a good foss option that has autocorrect and stuff! You can also give it swipe typing by supplying your own proprietary blob, so that's neat. Better than using a non-foss keyboard!
I'd try Heiboard again, but it didn't have built-in layout options, nor a clearly communicated way to get them last I tried it.
I've used HeliBoard for a while before going back to GBoard, unfortunately. It's a decent keyboard but I'm a swipe feature user and prediction plus autocorrect was very bad for me using it. I used FlorisBoard for a while also and it has more features,but no swipe support at all,plus only English support.
I think that's on the development plate for 0.5 if I understand correctly.
Sadly AnysoftKeyboard hasn't seen a release in some time either. Still using it for now, though.
I'm still excited. I've probably used it long enough to simply not miss autocorrect. And it does multilingual bit very well!
I'm currently using florisboard and like it.
My all time favorite android keyboard was the now defunct minuum. It had really good autocorrect and I got to the point where I could touch type fairly quickly with it. Also because of the way it was designed didn't take up half the screen. Even though I really liked it I eventually stopped using it because I started to care more about my privacy and FLOSS.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZh8r-xErGE
The video doesn't show it but you could expand the keyboard to regular size if you needed to type something specific.
I swear one day I'll learn Android app development just to take a stab at recreating unique input methods like this and Nintype π’
Yeah there there's been some unique Android keyboards over the years. 8pen, fleksy, to name a couple.
It's a shame that the creators of minuum didn't open source the code when they went out of business.