OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by circularfoyers on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:13AM (#25670140)

I don't see any reason why someone would use OpenBoard over AnySoftKeyboard. It would of been nice if there was an explanation of what differentiated it. If someone just wanted a different looking keyboard they could just have created a new theme for AnySoftKeyboard.

AnySoftKeyboard also is the only open source keyboard for Android that has gesture typing. Which is something I grew to love from when I used Gboard.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by jmnicolas on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:33AM (#25670793)

The search function on FDroid is atrocious. I find all the language packs for Anysoftkeyboard but not the keyboard itself.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by yorwba on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:43AM (#25670881)

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboa...

I think the search function is working fine, the app is just called "AnySoftKeyboard 3D Theme" in the F-Droid app but not on the website for some reason.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by solarkraft on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:07PM (#25674788)

With all default repos + IzzyOnDroid enabled and searching exactly for that package name I get all the language packs and a 7 years old PC theme, but not the app itself. I'll just download the APK, I guess.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by circularfoyers on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:09PM (#25675714)

For future reference you can use the "Open in app" option in Firefox to open the app in F-Droid from the website link in the parent.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by Maha-pudma on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:13PM (#25679546)

When I do that it does open in fdriid but to the "Armenian for AnysoftKeyboard".

Edit: thought I would install it and it turns out its English. Using to type this.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by opan on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:01PM (#25681374)

Yeah, the app name got screwed up for whatever reason.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by yorwba on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:10AM (#25683817)

This appears to be a known issue: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2014

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by jmnicolas on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:35AM (#25671455)

Then why I can't find it even with your keywords?

The other possibility is that it's not present for me because it might not be compatible with GrapheneOS?

But I have problems with search even for other apps. I'm OK with it it because FDroid is very good otherwise.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by vinay427 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:27AM (#25672097)

It shows up for me on GrapheneOS. I don't think the F-Droid search is OS-dependent anyways besides maybe the major Android version number. As the GP noted, for some reason the name is listed with the "3D Theme" addendum in the app which is a little bizarre. Does your browser support opening the link in an app, i.e. F-Droid?

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by ncmncm on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:16PM (#25680133)

When I installed that, my Apps settings page listed the Armenian layout "app".

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by scns on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:18AM (#25672001)

I concur, Foxy Droid works much better for me.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by pmontra on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:01AM (#25670492)

Swyping didn't work reliably when I tried one year ago, so I switched back to one of the keyboards of my phone (SwiftKey because I find it slightly better than Samsung's one.) Did they improve it in the last releases?

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:20PM (#25673949)

There is a pull request open which improves the algorithm massively. Author couldn't finish it because of health issues sadly. I've installed it on my phone and it works great but I had to update some parameters in the code so it'd work.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by circularfoyers on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:05PM (#25675649)

I'm not sure if they improved it or it just works more reliably with the default theme. But about a year ago it was unusable but now I'm able to use it with only occasional errors.

Of course it's still not as good as Gboard, but I'd rather put up with the slight inconvenience for it being open source.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by JeremyNT on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:12AM (#25671932)

For me, it just doesn't do the job. I love ASK but this feature isn't competitive with the closed source alternatives.

Alas, I wish it were. This is all that's missing IMO.

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Re:OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your... by bestouff on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:24PM (#25674046)

Can't upvote this enough.

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