FlorisBoard
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.
Damn it’s not FOSS? Time to jump ship
@freijon the question was specifically about open-source. Is this your first day here?
Anyone, including people who have never been here should be welcomed
@GravitySpoiled Except people who violate the first rule of this community?
Feel free to inspect the source code here: https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard
@freijon feel free to learn what “open source” means. Look, considering the number and frequency of posts in this community talking about this issue, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore. People arguing that futo is open source are just spammers. Look around.
No need to be unfriendly. I modified my original comment to make sure everyone understands what they get when they install this keyboard.
I use Fcitx5 for its Chinese language support.
Preference for AnySoftKeyboard.
Why is there so many censored posts about keyboard apps?
Heliboard which is an active fork of OpenBoard.
I’ve been using it for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren’t as good of course.
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.
I like Fossify’s, but I won’t recommend it - it has no predictive text and no symbols on its main keyboard, the first which is a huge deal for almost everyone. Not sure if they’re working on those or if it will never get those features, because if it had those two it would be the perfect keyboard because it’s so great in every other sense.
ive been using heliboard for a while now. no complaints.
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if I wanted this mod abuse I would’ve stayed on reddit, what are all these removed comments bruh
Sadly this community is on the instance lemmy.ml which is known for mod abuse. Other instances are better
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Florisboard is highly configurable, it can provide a good keyboard for the avarage user, if a more advanced user sets it up properly
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IIRC it’s not open source
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I like HeliBoard. It automatically switches between the languages I write in.
Yeah heliboard is the only one ive found that is actually usable on a day to day. Just wish the autocorrect was better, other than that no complaints.
How do you set it up to do that? I just discovered multilingual typing, but that does not seem to be quite it.
I installed the dictionaries I need and then followed https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/FAQ#multilingual-typing-type-in-multiple-languages-without-switching-manually
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.
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?
Best keyboard so far
Agree.
Wow, I missed the introduction of extensions, thanks! That’s cool
I don’t know, but Thumb-Key is written to by a core Lemmy developer, dessalines.
what a fantastic way to indicate my turbo nerd status to my friends and family!
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wtf
The fuck did y’all do
My comment was:
what the hack happened here with all the messages deleted by moderator
🤷🏼♂️
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I love the fulliness of unexpected keyboard
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Fyi, the futo keyboard isn’t open source. The license heavily restricts against who can modify it and for what purpose. https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads
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Exactly, that’s more than good enough for me. This model should be encouraged for companies trying to make profit, it gives the individual privacy and protects their work from being stolen by other malicious companies.
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Ah I wasn’t aware, I just assumed that even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid
Edit: reading the license, seems open source enough but I don’t have a legal background so I’m not the most well versed in that stuff, as long as code it open is the bare minimum for me.
even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid
There is nothing to stop anyone from running their own f-droid repo and distributing non-free software through it, which is what futo is doing.
seems open source enough
This is the definition. Compare it with Futo’s license; it fails to meet both the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition in several ways. After insisting they could redefine the term for a while (despite the definition’s wide acceptance) and inspiring some of their very vocal fans to promulgate their dishonest argument on their behalf, Futo themselves finally came around and agreed to stop calling their software open source.
Is it vulnerable to enshittification?
Once Luis Rossman dies likely…
Until then, i trust that bro
it is, you just can’t understand what open-source means, even though it is in its name
you just can’t understand what open-source means
FYI, nearly everyone (including Futo themselves), except for some Futo fans like yourself who haven’t gotten the memo, agrees that this is the definition of “open source” (and Futo’s license obviously does not qualify).
Other comments in this thread suggesting that Futo keyboard is open source have been deleted as offtopic.
all I hear is yapping, I can read, modify, and redistribute the source, what’s the big deal?
Whoa, I found the discussion rather insightful 😕
This license, plus that the app require microphone access, plus all the AI features, make my BS alarm go bzzz.
I don’t think it is OS
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That is a non-commercial license, so it is not open source.
Since when is allowing commercial derivative work essential for it to be called open source?
Since always https://opensource.org/osd
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I’ve actually tried everything that was recommended here, but AnySoftKeyboard still fits me the best.
