MajestixAug 5, 2024

Flickboard or 8Vim, which "Fast Typing" Keyboard should I try to learn?

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Flickboard or 8Vim, which "Fast Typing" Keyboard should I try to learn? - Lemmy.World

Want to learn/try one of the two alternative Keyboards for Android. Which do you prefer, have had the best experience with?

Show threadExtremeDullardAug 6, 2024
The fastest touchscreen keyboard I’ve ever found is OpenBoard with Gesture Typing: it’s both a regular keyboard and a super-fast Swype-like keyboard. It’s open-source and it doesn’t connect to the internet, so you don’t need to freak out because the APK is 2 years old.
Releases · erkserkserks/openboard

100% FOSS keyboard, based on AOSP. Contribute to erkserkserks/openboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

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HeliBoard
GitHub - Helium314/HeliBoard: Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard

Customizable and privacy-conscious open-source keyboard - Helium314/HeliBoard

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Aug 6, 2024 at 6:33pmWeb
Show threadforemanguyAug 6, 2024
But it uses google glide typing
Show threadzonsopkomstAug 12, 2024
I thought OpenBoard originally used GApps libraries like HeliBoard, but maybe it changed since I last used OpenBoard years ago…
Support for glide typing? · Issue #3 · openboard-team/openboard

AOSP keyboard have settings for glide typing but does not included in OpenBoard. I know it's because glide typing require libjni_latinimegoogle.so the proprietary library (it can be extracted from ...

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