Friday, April 7, 2023

Open-source keyboards for Android

Updated 2023.07.29.

OpenBoard

Supports swipe/glide typing - NO. (YES! Read below)

OpenBoard on F-Droid.
OpenBoard on Play Store.
OpenBoard on GitHub.

Looks like OpenBoard is abandoned [?] but it is forked and updated by Helium314, with support for swipe/glide typing.

OpenBoard by Helium314 on GitHub.

AnySoftKeyboard

Supports swipe/glide typing - YES. 

User comment:

AnySoftKeyboard needs the languages to be installed as “plugins” via apks, this means after uninstalling the app, you need to uninstall a bunch of “apps” which are just languages/keyboard layouts. The languages are all named wrongly in F-Droid and there seems to be no Bulgarian language. The actual layout of the keys (size & spacing) causes me to mistype more often than on any other keyboard.
AnySoftKeyboard on F-Droid.
AnySoftKeyboard on Play Store.
AnySoftKeyboard on GitHub.

FlorisBoard

Supports swipe/glide typing - YES (English only). 

User comment:

Florisboard is pretty neat for alpha, but it currently mixes the suggestion dictionaries for all installed languages and it’s prediction is generally bad.
FlorisBoard on F-Droid.
FlorisBoard on GitHub.

 

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