For about a decade now google has been changing shit for no particular reason, this is just the latest.

We didn't ask for the red to pink colour fade on the Youtube playbar either but here we are...

Heliboard is the best right now

Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love

Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?

Reminds me of this

Circles are the worst possible shape in terms of making efficient use of the limited screen space available on a phone. The screen is rectangular and nearly everything we display falls into rectangular arrangements. Using circles just means there is less room on each key to show useful information, like the long-hold functions.

I'm not opposed to change, but change entirely for the sake of change usually produces bad results.

Don't use gboard, rather download a keyboard from F-Droid and avoid the keylogging :-)

I like this. But this should be an option.

I wanna switch to FOSS alternatives but swiping is either funky (FUTO) or not available for now (Floris). I ended up downgrading gboard to an older version since all this emoji stuff (especially the bitmoji sticker nonsense) really grinds my gears.

g what? I only know Heliboard

All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.

I switched to Heliboard and I couldn't be more happier! It is just as good as any proprietary keyboards.

FUTO keyboard. Try it. Say bye to gboard.

The keys are not even the size they are on the screen, what’s getting drawn is just a grid of letters. Touch keyboards are far more complicated than you think.

Looks awful

maybe the idea is that round keys will have less typos than rectangular keys that are all touching each other?

Gboard is so far the only one i know that actually works with my use case. Swiping with multiple languages active at once, and actually figuring out what I want to type.

I'm running it without Google services or network access.

Kinda reminded me of this post

https://feddit.org/post/8032101

Albeit the kerning on those virtual keys are making me all itchy. Horrible horrible implementation from Google yet again when they could've done it right.