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Safety in typing, no cloud needed (f-droid.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Are there any keyboards on f-droid that offer word prediction?

I always go back to SwiftKey (but didn't update if since they announced AI stuff) because nothing comes close, but I would gladly change it to something FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

@fri @Hirom HeliBoard is awesome, especially if you take a few minutes to change the settings to your liking

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

@fri @Hirom HeliBoard is FOSS, on F-Droid, does predictions, works offline, and is actively maintained.

If you want swiping, you'll have to install a proprietary Google binary though. Basically download https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/46fdf2b550035ca69299ce312fa158e7ade36967/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a (probably this version, although there are others for other less common processors) and add it in the HeliBoard settings.

Homepage is @
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard (and it links to the page that contains that binary library, including other architecture versions).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

heliboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

@fri @Hirom
https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io is pretty great. Many languages, customized layout, word prediction, no data reporting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@fri @Hirom openboard?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Open board is unmaintained, heliboard is the fork, and has added some great features IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

@IrritableOcelot good to know, just installed!