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FlorisBoard | FOSS keyboard that respects your privacy (florisboard.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I came across everyday topic on Techlore Discussions about free and open source keyboards for Android and discovered this little gem. It is FlorisBoard, a virtual keyboard for Android which respects privacy of the user. I can sigh with relief and finish my search for that singular keyboard for typing stuff on the go.

It has everything I need and more.

Multilanguage support: detailed layout options, popular presets
Swift and glide typing experience
Customizable gestures: switch language by fast swiping the keyboard itself left and right, change case by swiping up, the infamous cursor swipe on space bar
Emojis
Clipboard
Smartbar: quick actions and clipboard cursor tools
One-handed mode
Other look-and-feel settings

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Swipe typing is not great. I come back to it every few months to try it again and always end up frustrated. It's good if you are a tap typer, though.

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

Swipe typing is brutal

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

It needs to be so precise!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my problem with every keyboard (FOSS or otherwise) since Swype finished. Gboard is the best of the bunch now but I'm loath to use it. I have tried Floris and Open (a fork of it which has swiping) and others, and they are all painful on this front.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use SwiftKey and remove its Internet access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What you guys call "swipe typing" is actually a glide typing, right?