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What android keyboard app do you use and why? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Gboard is pretty good. I switched off Swiftkey because Gboard has the lil space bar cursor thing. Swipe typing is pretty great, and the predictions are fine.

I would prefer a non-Google keyboard, but I haven't found one that's easy to install and works the way I want it to.

[-] necrophagist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

SwiftKey has the spacebar cursor and swipe on backspace to select whole word to delete as well now.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Just switched to Futo after years and years of gboard. Its a 1:1 replacement, give it a try.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Not exactly 1:1. The main thing that I still miss is multi lingual typing. It's not too big a deal to just switch the languages when I need to, especially since I only use 2. But that's still more than I needed to do with Gboard or Heliboard.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I'll give it a shot, thanks!

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's exactly my experience, too. Nothing else I've tried has all the features I want.

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