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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! ๐Ÿ˜„

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[โ€“] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Multiling-o keyboard might fit the bill.

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[โ€“] Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Swift key with auto correct cranked to 11. Haven't found any other keyboard yet that lets me smash any nearby keys and have it fix it just fine.

[โ€“] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SwiftKey for swipe texting

[โ€“] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keyboard Designer.

It allows me to put the numbers on the bottom row and the space bar on the 2nd row and the backspace next to the L where it belongs.

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Ive tried multiple ones but I keep going back to Samsung keyboard just because it works so dam well.

[โ€“] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I normally use whatever the default keyboard app is, I do sometimes use Unexpected Keyboard. It doesn't have auto-correct but it has more keys available than even normal keyboards do. It may take some getting used to though as, for example, to use the "alts" for each key, you have to swipe in that direction. So for example if you wanted to press "Esc" with the default settings, you'd press q and swipe diagonally down and to the right.

For customization, I don't know if you can add images or gifs but there is some visual options and you have pretty much full control over the layout of the keyboard and what keys it has.

[โ€“] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I know you're probably just joking but I'm not actually sure why it's called that. The only thing it does that other keyboards don't (outside of having more keys than anyone would probably need) is that, I'm pretty sure it's the smallest keyboard app for android. It's only 1 MB while the second smallest keyboard I know is the LG Keyboard and that uses a little over 4 MB.

[โ€“] november@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mostly Thumb Key, but I'm trying out Heliboard right now thanks to the recommendations here and it's pretty nice. I haven't used a good swiping keyboard for a while.

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[โ€“] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use anysoft keyboard cause I thought that it was the only foss option at the time and got used to it.

[โ€“] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess you must like it then?

[โ€“] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unexpected Keyboard
https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
Available on F-Droid
You can pretty much configure the whole layout. Not sure about gif support though.

[โ€“] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Samsung default one seems to get the job done just fine

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