I’m looking for a privacy-respecting open-source android keyboard, and so far I’ve found:
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other alternative keyboards)? Which one would you recommend?
my favorite is unexpected keyboard. it takes a while to get used to but once you do it’s way faster than any othet keyboard.
I second that
I use FlorisBoard. It’s not perfect, but it has a fully featured clipboard and undo-redo functionality. Missing the swipe tho.
I use an OpenBoard fork with gestures after giving up Gboard.
https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing
Does it support ota updates by any chance?
Might want to look into Obtainium, automatic updates from any git repo.
I use openboard but it gets me mad sometimes when I start deleting characters and it removes the space between the last word…sometimes it’s really annoying!
That’s a Jerboa bug with any keyboard AFAICT. Insane how this hasn’t been fixed yet.
That weirdly only happens on jerboa for me
Privacy respecting, but not open source:
Typewise
(Also a lot less typos and faster writing once you get used to it.)
All good but Florisboard has an internal clipboard with past entries. If you use its buttons (change in the settings, top row) and not the android ones, the system never gets your clipboard