FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.
New update includes:
- Major rework of emoji suggestions
- Major rework of emoji history
- Rework inline autofill suggestions from password managers
- handful of other changes listed in the link above
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I was definitely more excited for this project when they didn’t randomly abandon it for over a year and a half unannounced. Also spell check is still non-functional. That feature seems like a requirement, otherwise it’d be an amazing keyboard. In fact, I’d say it would be the best.
I agree. I dropped it recently for a non-FOSS alternative because I just can’t deal with the lack of predictive text/autocorrect
HeliBoard is a good foss option that has autocorrect and stuff! You can also give it swipe typing by supplying your own proprietary blob, so that’s neat. Better than using a non-foss keyboard!
I’d try Heiboard again, but it didn’t have built-in layout options, nor a clearly communicated way to get them last I tried it.
I’m currently using florisboard and like it.
My all time favorite android keyboard was the now defunct minuum. It had really good autocorrect and I got to the point where I could touch type fairly quickly with it. Also because of the way it was designed didn’t take up half the screen. Even though I really liked it I eventually stopped using it because I started to care more about my privacy and FLOSS.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZh8r-xErGE
The video doesn’t show it but you could expand the keyboard to regular size if you needed to type something specific.
I swear one day I’ll learn Android app development just to take a stab at recreating unique input methods like this and Nintype 😢
Yeah there there’s been some unique Android keyboards over the years. 8pen, fleksy, to name a couple.
It’s a shame that the creators of minuum didn’t open source the code when they went out of business.
