Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight Android keyboard. (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The gesture support for additional signs is quite nice, but probably annoying if you are used to swipe keyboards.

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[-] fenndev@leminal.space 5 points 8 months ago

I use it alongside SwiftKey (with Internet access disabled). It's a godsend in Termux.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works -3 points 8 months ago

try tracker control and you will see that swiftKey doesn't respect that "disable"

[-] null@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

An app being able to subvert system-level permissions would be pretty huge news.

I downloaded that app along with SwiftKey and disabled network access for it. Here's what I get:

Where am I supposed to see it being able to access the internet?

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

in the "traffic log"

[-] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago

Enabled the traffic log, used SwiftKey in a few different apps, got traffic from those apps, but nothing from SwiftKey. What am I missing?

[-] loki@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

a tinfoil hat?

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

on my phone, even with disabled access, it was "phoning home" regularly. i'm on AnySoftKeyboard for the last 2 years.

maybe my os wasn't intact 🤷 it's degoogled now and (relatively) tracker free

if Swiftkey works for you … good for you.

excuse my comments

[-] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't use SwiftKey, just tested it because you shared a tool for doing it and claimed it was able to subvert Android permissions.

You probably didn't actually disable the permission -- like I said, the idea that an app could get around system-level permissions like that, in a way you could plainly observe would be headline news. It would be astounding that you somehow uncovered something that massive.