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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 wit

by Feniks 9y ago

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.

taneq 9y ago
Did you find a Swype-ish replacement on F-Droid? Gesture typing is the one thing I miss about running stock Android.
- minty_phoenix 9y ago
  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.
  - andrewjw 9y ago
    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.)
- 482794793792894 9y ago
  There's some progress happening for this in AnySoftKeyboard: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/264 https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/26...
- Feniks 9y ago
  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.
egeozcan 9y ago
Is there something wrong with SwiftKey? That'd mean so much work for me as I'm using extensively.
- kotajacob 9y ago
  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.
  - maaark 9y ago
    pretty clearly? Got a source or anything to back that up?
    - egeozcan 9y ago
      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/swiftkey-bug-backup-sync-down-error-prediction https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swi...
      - lima 9y ago
        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.
        positivecomment 9y ago
        Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.
    - rmc 9y ago

by Feniks 9y ago

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.

taneq 9y ago

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

minty_phoenix 9y ago
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.
- andrewjw 9y ago
  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.)
482794793792894 9y ago
There's some progress happening for this in AnySoftKeyboard: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/264 https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/26...
Feniks 9y ago
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.

egeozcan 9y ago

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

kotajacob 9y ago
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.
- maaark 9y ago
  pretty clearly? Got a source or anything to back that up?
  - egeozcan 9y ago
    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/swiftkey-bug-backup-sync-down-error-prediction https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/29/12326152/swi...
    - lima 9y ago
      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.
      - positivecomment 9y ago
        Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.
  - rmc 9y ago