Oh yeah after ditching Swiftkey I was looking for a new keyboard on my phone.

So rare to see apps without asking for permissions these days. Don't see that with Gplay.

Did you find a Swype-ish replacement on F-Droid? Gesture typing is the one thing I miss about running stock Android.

I'm using AnySoftKeyboard now.

Data mining and machine learning just doesn't sit well with me even though it can't directly be traced back to a individual. At the end of the day all of it will be used for one thing: selling more services and products to me. Convenience comes with a price.

There's some progress happening for this in AnySoftKeyboard: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/26...

Are you opposed to Google Keyboard/Gboard? It's had gesture typing for a while, and not too long ago added some nice gestures which use the spacebar to control cursor position and backspace key to delete one or more words at a time rather than character-by-character.

Its gesture-interpretation algorithm has gotten absolutely terrible for me recently, to the point that I frequently have to type out whole messages letter by letter because it will keep spitting out really strange guesses when I gesture. (It used to work a lot better, and when I revert to old versions they work great.)

Is there something wrong with SwiftKey? That'd mean so much work for me as I'm using extensively.

It's pretty clearly key-logging and on top of that they've had poor security in the past which is not great when they're key-logging everything you type.

Personally I can't say I took the high ground though I just blocked swiftkey with a firewall and figure that's good enough for me.

pretty clearly? Got a source or anything to back that up?

I researched a bit and apparently they had a bug which made the cloud sync leak the personal data of others: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swi...

Cloud sync is opt in and I don't know why anyone in their right mind would enable it...

That being said, using a closed source application packed with features (also known as "attack surface") as your main input method clearly isn't ideal.

Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.

How else does it know what to predict without logging what keys you press?

yeah and that's why i block it assess to internet using afwall+

Terrible example. You do realize recent Android versions have a native flashlight app?

Yeah, nowadays they do, but it was the first example that came to mind because I definitely used F-Droid for this purpose back before they did.