I have tried a few private keyboards, but none of them had the possibility to have one layout (Qwerty) with two correction languages (English and French). Any suggestions?
I just saw another post about this on !android@lemdro.id and I’m now using OpenBoard with Gesture Typing - it has everything I want from GBoard in a FOSS app!
When I enable the spellchecker systemwide, it says “unknown / null” in the spellchecker settings. So I’m guessing not. I never use any spellchecker myself so I wouldn’t know if there is something else to install.
i have to read more about this, and try for some time to learn
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it’s so awkward to use. Do you use only one thumb or both? Where are the predictions?
passing from 10 fingers to 2 is already a handicap. sometimes i put my screen on a surface to use the keyboard like a ‘real’ keyboard with 10 fingers. a thumb-key is torture for me 😬
how is your speed with this layout? did you test it?
Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I’m a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn’t test speed
I want to like florisboard but it is lacking so much. For example, of I want to use gesture typing, I can’t have it capitalize the word “I”. I have tried switching to the beta multiple times, but never last more than a few hours because of small things like that.
yeah, ASK has got tons of little QoL features that it doesn’t advertise anywhere and you just randomly stumble across. I’ve been using it for several years before someone told me about merging dictionaries.
How good is the autocorrect on it? I tried it a while back and it was very very bad compared to Gboard, so I had to switch back? Has it improved at all these days (past year), or is there perhaps some way to improve it? That’s the only thing keeping me on Gboard.
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Florisboard or Simple Keyboard
Im using now florisboard, its beta now and correction is experimental, but its seen to be very well made and its FOSS
I just saw another post about this on !android@lemdro.id and I’m now using OpenBoard with Gesture Typing - it has everything I want from GBoard in a FOSS app!
This is nice, but no swipe ?
It does have gesture/swipe typing, that’s the whole point!
Am I missing how to turn this on ?
Ahh yes, I picked up OpenBoard, not the version with gesture typing … 🫣
Got it now, thanks. 🫠👍
Yeah I assume this fork only exists on github and all other versions don’t have the gesture typing
After reading your post, I went check it out and you were right: it’s friggin brilliant. In fact, I’m typing this with it at this very moment.
Thank you Sir!
I use AnySoftKeyboard
FlorisBoard is by far the best of all open source keyboards I’ve tried.
Have they added spell check yet? I love it, but I need a keyboard that can spellchwck and autocorrect…
I’m leaving that typo in there to make my point.
When I enable the spellchecker systemwide, it says “unknown / null” in the spellchecker settings. So I’m guessing not. I never use any spellchecker myself so I wouldn’t know if there is something else to install.
I guess not: there is a big red box in the settings saying “Suggestions (except autofill) are not available in this release”.
openboard and florisboard for more customization.
Using Florisboard (only because it has its own private clipboard support.)
Openboard fork with gestures is excellent. That’s what I’m using after giving up Gboard.
Edit: link - https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
Can you please link to where you got that fork with gestures?
You can download it here: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
I ditched traditional keyboards and got Thumb-key, now I can just have my keyboard in Spanish all the time
what do you mean by “thumb-key”? when i search, i see custom hardware keyboards
edit 1found it: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-keyi have to read more about this, and try for some time to learn
edit 2it’s so awkward to use. Do you use only one thumb or both? Where are the predictions?passing from 10 fingers to 2 is already a handicap. sometimes i put my screen on a surface to use the keyboard like a ‘real’ keyboard with 10 fingers. a thumb-key is torture for me 😬
how is your speed with this layout? did you test it?
Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I’m a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn’t test speed
Maybe florisboard?
I want to like florisboard but it is lacking so much. For example, of I want to use gesture typing, I can’t have it capitalize the word “I”. I have tried switching to the beta multiple times, but never last more than a few hours because of small things like that.
It’s nice but it doesn’t have an auto correct. I need that for my fat thumbs
Ah yeah. I think it’s in the works but yeah i feel you
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Have you tried florisboard or anysoftkeyboard?
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Try florisboard beta, idk if the swiping made it into the regular version yet but it definitely has swiping
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Glide typing is available on the F-Droid version, but currently English-only for now.
AnySoftKeyboard is flexible enough for bilingual (or trilingual or +) use. For qwerty with french, you have to choose Canadian French 🤷
i installed open board for a monolingual friend who uses azerty
I tried that one. You have to manually switch between the languages to get the corresponding autocorrect. I need a multilingual qwerty keyboard
long press the Enter key, choose “override default dictionary”, and pick the languages to merge.
Wow I didn’t know it was possible. I’ll give it a try thank!
yeah, ASK has got tons of little QoL features that it doesn’t advertise anywhere and you just randomly stumble across. I’ve been using it for several years before someone told me about merging dictionaries.
thank you. i didn’t know that we can merge them. This must be what op needs
OpenBoard is my go-to Android keyboard.
How good is the autocorrect on it? I tried it a while back and it was very very bad compared to Gboard, so I had to switch back? Has it improved at all these days (past year), or is there perhaps some way to improve it? That’s the only thing keeping me on Gboard.