• SFloss (they/them)@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I’ve been using FlorisBoard for a week or so now and it’s pretty great! I’m loving the Swype feature! It’s better than AnySoft’s! However, I’ve had a lot of issues with it where it’ll type or delete characters in the wrong location, delete whole ass words when i just wanna delete the last letter, or slowing down a ton until i clear cache. Hell, i actually had some trouble finishing this paragraph.

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      3 years ago

      Anysoft is great, but it really seems developer lost interest, since there are a lot of bugs never fixed and a lot of new features never implemented. It’s sad, since it’s my main keyboard and I’m very fond of

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    3 years ago

    I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s a great alternative to gboard. You can make it look basically the same and it has most of the features that gboard has, things like built-in google translator are obviously missing.

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    3 years ago

    Thanks for the tip. I just installed it, and it doesn’t look bad at first sight.

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    3 years ago

    Keyboard […] which respects you privacy

    It’s a weird world we live in…

    Why would I want to use this over the default keyboard? There isn’t a comparison in the readme and it looks pretty similiar to me.

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      3 years ago

      It has more features over the default keyboard, just like Gboard has. That’s the gap it was meant to fill: a privacy respecting “smart” keyboard.

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      3 years ago

      I can imagine that after a stock Android install the default keyboard will not be completely free from key logging by Google LLC and / or by your phone hardware vendor.

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        3 years ago

        I was aware of the smart spying, the question was meant to be seperate from that comment. I couldn’t really see how florisboard is different in a major way from AOSP keyboard.