The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I’ve heard, it sends all typing data to Google’s server. If you ask me, that’s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

  • KroninJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks! The only thing I don’t like is that I can’t have arrow keys. It’s immediately better than SwiftKey for sure, so I’ll adjust.

    • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can use swiping on the space bar to move left and right at least.

      AnySoftKeyboard has arrow keys and more gestures, but it’s not as refined overall imo.

      Floris Board has gestures to move around IIRC, but not at the same time as gesture typing, and is lacking word suggestions.

      • KroninJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Awesome! Using space to go left and right is good enough for me!

        Thanks a ton for that. I got to really liking OpenBoard since I started using it.