• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Unfortunately (and incredibly) Gboard is the only keyboard that fits all my needs. I’m on graphene so I feel ok about just blocking its network access. This means voice transcription doesn’t work, but otherwise I get swipe, predictions, and other languages.

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      8 months ago

      The biggest thing keeping me from switching away from Gboard are things like the Japanese and Chinese IMEs. I have yet to find an open source keyboard with both of those, while also allowing me to switch to English.

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      Clicked on the article. Clicked on the Trime and Fcxit5 and plugins links. It might be suitable in the future. Hoping this isn’t a situation where I finally find a solution and then the devs suddenly disappear without a trace.

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      8 months ago

      I was in your shoes for ages, but HeliBoard has predictions and other languages out of the box. Voice transcription works if you have FUTO Voice Input. Gesture typing uses a swypelibs binary extracted from Gapps; you just have to download it manually since the app never requests network access (instructions are on the Github page). I started using it today and some of its features actually seem to work better for me than Gboard, like the swipe gestures on delete or space, and it has at least a few more features I’m pretty sure Gboard doesn’t. Give it a look at least.