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There are many bad stereotypes about Android, and Samsung isn't helping by shipping such a bad keyboard to millions of Android users.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago

Someone has never used an iPhone keyboard.

[–] Overspark@piefed.social 5 points 7 hours ago

If you're using a default keyboard on almost any mobile device you're only hurting yourself. The Google one is annoyingly good, but every other keyboard I've encountered from mobile manufacturers (including Apple) is just terrible.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Also I want to highlight that heliboard devs together with NLNet are running an opt-in program to collect gesture typing data to make an open source library to further divorce from having to use closed source Google gesture library

https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/

Edit: p.s. if you somehow used to use this nifty iOS/android keyboard called nintype a decade ago where you can feature type using two fingers, heliboard also can do it. It's awesome.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

The Samsung keyboard is bad? I remember when it had a number row and we were all just like "whoa, this is what we asked for." I just use Gboard on mine (S10). If it ain't broke don't fix it.