Here’s a couple of FOSS keyboard alternatives in no particular order:

Unexpected Keyboard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration
    run at startup

FlorisBoard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • Apache-2.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration

Thumb-Key - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • AGPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    com.dessalines.thumbkey.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Notable Extra Notes:

I’ve used Unexpected Keyboard and FlorisBoard and I’d say that they’re great introductory FOSS apps for most users (users inexperienced to sudden changes)

  • Unexpected Keyboard uses Nix in their codebase :D

  • Thumb-Key is maintained by dessalines whom is a Lemmy dev

  • Florisboard is starting to convert their codebase to Rust,

    • literally their commit to main yesterday:

      “Switch native code to Rust”

    so this is pretty awesome to see!!

  • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    6 months ago

    Whoo, since you’re here, can I ask, does any of these (or others) have swipe-typing? And since you’ve used these, are they good?

    Any better features than gboard? (Apart from the obvious data stealing)

    Any gripes?

    • dracs@programming.dev
      1·
      6 months ago

      I just started using Heliboard yesterday. It doesn’t offer its own swipe typing library. But you can give it the library file from GBoard (link on their github) and it’ll use that to enable it.