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Sadly Google Keyboard is the only good keyboard app left. I have internet permission blocked on it so I have actual privacy, and there's not too much bloat. I was excited by a really nice FOSS keyboard app called FlorisBoard, but unfortunately it looks like it was abandoned right before they released the update that fixed auto correct. They even had glide typing working.
Openboard was good but got abandoned a year-ish ago, but there's a fork of it now that I'd highly recommend checking out, they have glide typing but you have to manually install it but it's a really easy install. I switched from gboard and I've been using it for about a month or two happily.
https://beehaw.org/comment/1196291 (app in the OP I made but link is to a comment giving instructions for the glide typing)
Archive links in case the link is down: GhostArchive / Archive.ph / Archive.org
Edit: Installing the glide typing makes it partially non-foss because it uses Google's glide typing library, which is also why it has to be manually installed.
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