I came across everyday topic on Techlore Discussions about free and open source keyboards for Android and discovered this little gem. It is FlorisBoard, a virtual keyboard for Android which respects privacy of the user. I can sigh with relief and finish my search for that singular keyboard for typing stuff on the go.

It has everything I need and more.

  • Multilanguage support: detailed layout options, popular presets
  • Swift and glide typing experience
  • Customizable gestures: switch language by fast swiping the keyboard itself left and right, change case by swiping up, the infamous cursor swipe on space bar
  • Emojis
  • Clipboard
  • Smartbar: quick actions and clipboard cursor tools
  • One-handed mode
  • Other look-and-feel settings
  • folkrav
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    121 year ago

    Yeah I had given up on the project and had settled on OpenBoard for now, but if/when the word suggestions ever land, I’ll gladly jump over. I don’t dislike OpenBoard per se, it’s actually pretty decent, reminds me of older AOSP when it was a bit more naive, but I really miss swipe typing.

      • folkrav
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        1 year ago

        Iiiinteresting. Will test that out. Thanks!

        Edit: works great! Thank you so much.

      • Captain Beyond
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        41 year ago

        Note that this fork relies on the proprietary Google library to do this. It’s not really an alternative.

      • spez
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        21 year ago

        Didn’t know they did releases. Thank you!

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      You should give AnySoftKeyboard a spin. Has word suggestions that are really good and the swiping works really well too

      • folkrav
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        11 year ago

        I kind of dismissed it as the project looks more or less dead on GH…