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I have tried a few private keyboards, but none of them had the possibility to have one layout (Qwerty) with two correction languages (English and French). Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FlorisBoard is by far the best of all open source keyboards I've tried.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have they added spell check yet? I love it, but I need a keyboard that can spellchwck and autocorrect...

I'm leaving that typo in there to make my point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When I enable the spellchecker systemwide, it says "unknown / null" in the spellchecker settings. So I'm guessing not. I never use any spellchecker myself so I wouldn't know if there is something else to install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I guess not: there is a big red box in the settings saying "Suggestions (except autofill) are not available in this release".

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

I just saw another post about this on [email protected] and I'm now using OpenBoard with Gesture Typing - it has everything I want from GBoard in a FOSS app!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

After reading your post, I went check it out and you were right: it's friggin brilliant. In fact, I'm typing this with it at this very moment.

Thank you Sir!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is nice, but no swipe ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does have gesture/swipe typing, that's the whole point!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am I missing how to turn this on ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ahh yes, I picked up OpenBoard, not the version with gesture typing ... 🫣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got it now, thanks. 🫠👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I assume this fork only exists on github and all other versions don't have the gesture typing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AnySoftKeyboard is flexible enough for bilingual (or trilingual or +) use. For qwerty with french, you have to choose Canadian French 🤷

i installed open board for a monolingual friend who uses azerty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried that one. You have to manually switch between the languages to get the corresponding autocorrect. I need a multilingual qwerty keyboard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

long press the Enter key, choose "override default dictionary", and pick the languages to merge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

thank you. i didn't know that we can merge them. This must be what op needs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow I didn't know it was possible. I'll give it a try thank!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, ASK has got tons of little QoL features that it doesn't advertise anywhere and you just randomly stumble across. I've been using it for several years before someone told me about merging dictionaries.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I usually just change keyboard altogether when switching between languages. for example, japanese is so different from English that the same keyboard wouldn't even make sense.

I am looking for a FOSS keyboard that supports typing by finger swiping though, as that's the only comfortable way to type for me, but so far I haven't found any. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you tried florisboard or anysoftkeyboard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I tried them out just now. Florisboard doesn't seem to have typing by swiping but AnySoftKeyboard definitely does, so I'll use it for now. A tiny bit buggy but i reckon it will improve with time since it is currently experimental. (It was called gesture-typing in AnySoftKeyboard)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try florisboard beta, idk if the swiping made it into the regular version yet but it definitely has swiping

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. I tried the stable release on f-droid (0.3.16). I'll check the beta version. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Glide typing is available on the F-Droid version, but currently English-only for now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

OpenBoard is my go-to Android keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Openboard fork with gestures is excellent. That's what I'm using after giving up Gboard.

Edit: link - https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you please link to where you got that fork with gestures?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Im using now florisboard, its beta now and correction is experimental, but its seen to be very well made and its FOSS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Florisboard or Simple Keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Using Florisboard (only because it has its own private clipboard support.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

openboard and florisboard for more customization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I use AnySoftKeyboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's nice but it doesn't have an auto correct. I need that for my fat thumbs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yeah. I think it's in the works but yeah i feel you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I want to like florisboard but it is lacking so much. For example, of I want to use gesture typing, I can't have it capitalize the word "I". I have tried switching to the beta multiple times, but never last more than a few hours because of small things like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I ditched traditional keyboards and got Thumb-key, now I can just have my keyboard in Spanish all the time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

what do you mean by "thumb-key"? when i search, i see custom hardware keyboards

edit 1 found it: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

i have to read more about this, and try for some time to learn

edit 2 it's so awkward to use. Do you use only one thumb or both? Where are the predictions?

passing from 10 fingers to 2 is already a handicap. sometimes i put my screen on a surface to use the keyboard like a 'real' keyboard with 10 fingers. a thumb-key is torture for me 😬

how is your speed with this layout? did you test it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I'm a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn't test speed

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