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Hello, could someone recommended a keyboard for android that is a bit smart in predictive typing? I used to like swiftkeybefore it was bought by microsoft. Not that swiftkey itself was much better but I was not so privy conscious at that time.

I recall swiftkey would require access to your texts and emails to train itself to your predictions.

Is there some similar foss keyboard where all the data then remains local?

I know swiftkey has an incognito mode, but then it stops learning from your typing.

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[–] Chamber7576@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I also use AnySoftKeyboard (installed from F-Droid, BTW) but IMO it kinda sucks. In particular, it often tries to autocorrect things to capitalized proper nouns, which is almost always exactly the wrong thing to do.

Frankly, I'm reading this thread in hopes of finding something else to replace it.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it have a predictive function? Based on what?

[–] TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use AnySoft as well--it has a predictive word function that seems to work just as well as GBoard's (albeit I haven't used GBoard since 2017)

The interface is different (e.g. swype left on the entire keyboard for numbers), but give yourself a week or two to adjust--most things can also be fine-tuned from the settings app

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll give it a try, thanks