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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19917523)

Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

SwiftKey Keyboard. There are OS keyboards and even swipe predictive text keyboards but I wish there was one that had the skinability and functionality that learned from my typing without monitoring my clipboard and reporting it to Microsoft. Yet every other keyboard I have tried has left me disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This. Loved it but stopped using it when it was bought by Microsoft (it was swiftkey that Microsoft bought, right - I'm getting old and it's late here)

Ironically I'm using gboard now, kinda given up looking for keyboard a while back.

I have to fuck about on F-Droid again for a bit I think.

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