I haven’t really found a particularly good alternative. I used to use AnySoftKeyboard, but stopped after I found that it was the cause of some performance issues I was having that would occasionally cause characters to be entered out-of-order on a slower Android device.
The lack of decent open source onscreen keyboards was actually one of my larger surprises when I hit Android. I thought that there’d be keyboards with user-specified macro keys, keys that could be dragged into a new layout or added and removed, etc, but no.
*Gboard is preparing to add an entirely new kind of activity to log and send to Google along with all of your normal keystrokes
GBoard is actually federated since 2017🤦♂️
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html?m=1
This is good from the privacy point of view right?
But maybe bad from your phone resources being used to train Google’s platforms.
I haven’t really found a particularly good alternative. I used to use AnySoftKeyboard, but stopped after I found that it was the cause of some performance issues I was having that would occasionally cause characters to be entered out-of-order on a slower Android device.
The lack of decent open source onscreen keyboards was actually one of my larger surprises when I hit Android. I thought that there’d be keyboards with user-specified macro keys, keys that could be dragged into a new layout or added and removed, etc, but no.
I use SwiftKey, I prefer giving my data to Microsoft than Google, Microsoft sells products while you are Googles product.
Microsoft sells you as a product while also having the gall to charge you for it