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Are there any good privacy friendly keyboards for android? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Rizoid@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've looked at a few on fdroid and they all seem like they aren't being maintained anymore.

Edit: I've spent the past day trying most all of the suggested keyboards here and I think I've landed on either Unexpected Keyboard or AnySoftKeyboard. Thanks for all the suggestions. Thumbkey is quite the thing to get used to.

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[–] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried most of them, it's just not the same as Gboard.

Anyone know if you can block Gboard with DNS?

[–] xarexyouxmadx@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Idk but you could always just install gboard & not give network permissions. You'll lose a little functionality like the ability to add gifs from the keyboard which obviously need internet to search/load.

[–] cipherd@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

To type with only one finger, there's 8Vim.

[–] xarexyouxmadx@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm using open board with swipe entry (so it functions like gboard). My only complaint is I've noticed I have to be extremely accurate in my swiping or it won't type out the intended word).

In this message alone: my first attempts at the word "type" came out as toe. "Out" came out as TT & "along" came out as "alone"

So it's definitely not perfect. I might stick with it. I might just go back to gboard and not grant it network permission. It's only been about a week so a little too early to tell..

[–] rush@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Florisboard and OpenBoard are good. Sadly the primary version of OpenBoard seems unmaintained, but there is this fork by Helium314 with extra features and bug fixes that's still maintained.

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