• Eyedust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    29 minutes ago

    I’ve been down this rabbit hole and here’s the haul from Wonderland:

    Conventional:

    • Heliboard - Has glide typing, but the available library is unstable and old. The most polished.

    • Florisboard - Currently under heavy development, but what’s there is more than usable and very well done.

    • Unexpected Keyboard - I actually love this one, but as a Fold user I need some auto correct. Uses swipe motions on each key for symbols and punctuation.

    Unconventional:

    • Thumbkey - A 3x3 grid using taps and swipes to type. I flip flop between this and Heliboard atm. Has circular motions to input caps or numbers. MASSIVE amount of layouts, including language, programmer, writer and more. Easy layout switch key on the fly.

    • Flickboard - Same setup as Thumbkey. This would be my go to ever since they added a landscape layout that smart switches on inner Fold screen, but there’s no separate key height for it, so you have to deal with non-uniform on one screen which isn’t easy to type on. Also has circular motion for caps. No numeric, but there’s the option of having a small number column.

    • 8vim - The only one of it’s kind since 8pen died. I’m learning this one and it’s great, but wonky on inner Fold screen. Its hard to explain, but you use circular motions around on X wheel to input whole words at a time letter by letter. Start center, drag out into a quadrant, rotate to get your letter, go back to center, without lifting go to your next quadrant for the next letter. When you’re done and back on center, let go to insert space, or you can move out into a quadrant then lift to end without a space. Takes a lot of getting used to.

  • Qzr@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I use the following keyboards:

    • Florisboard (supports 한굴)
    • FUTO Keyboard (supports voice input, although not very polished)
    • Typewise Offline (proprietary, best keyboard layout, good dialect support)
  • Ludrol@szmer.info
    1·
    4 hours ago

    After trying couple of keybords (mostly AnySoftKeyboard and TypeWise [proprietary]) I have settled on Unexpected Keyboard due to easy switch of keybords to get to japanese keyboard and tts button.

  • freijon@lemmings.world
    182·
    7 hours ago

    I’ve been using FUTO Keyboard and I’m very happy with it so far. EDIT: It’s not FOSS but the source code is available and you are allowed to copy/modify it, just not to make money from it. That’s good enough for me.

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I used to use Gboard for Cantonese input. I downloaded fcitx5 reading your comment and tried it for some time. There are some features noticeably missing compared to Gboard.

      • top numeric row
      • single-hand mode
      • simplified and traditional characters selection#

      # Found it. It’s in the settings bar at the top of the typing area. Click it open and go deep inside it.

      What Gboard and fcitx5 both don’t have for Jyutping input is glide typing. I wish fcitx5 have it because it is really what could make me switch and not look back. Gboard in general has better finger tap detection/correction because duh Google had more data to train on. But I will definitely start using fcitx5 because being open source is sufficient for me to switch.

      For languages that isn’t supported by its plugins like Japanese, I have to keep using Gboard though.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      9·
      10 hours ago

      I’ve been using Heliboard for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren’t as good of course.

      • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah, I’ve been using it for about a year now. It’s a little frustrating that it will learn my misspellings before it suggests a proper replacement, but otherwise I have no complaints. Direct upgrade over the stock AOSP keyboard.

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzEnglish
    201·
    18 hours ago

    Florisboard beta is what I use. Extremely customisable. I think the biggest things that lacks are custom background photo and text-gliding (I ~dont use any of these though).

    I made it almost identical to the gboard theme I was using previously and it’s so cool.

    • technotion@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      I am a big florisboard fan too, but I can not get autocorrect to work? How did you manage that? Also, I have glide typing, how do you not?

      • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Oh, I don’t use any autocorrect.😅 Does it have one? I know it has autofill, suggestions with dictionaries and spell check, but not sure if it has autocorrect.

        I have all of these disabled (I only have the auto-capitalization after a period and auto period after double space).😄

        Wait, are you on beta? I think they have gliding, but it is only for gestures, not typing.