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I'm working on a keyboard. What improvements would you make?

Glant 2y ago
When I start typing a string that begins with "https:// https://", disable autocorrect/auto capitalization. It gets frustrating having to fight the keyboard any time you type a url.
- bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
  Yes, and if I type X, backspace, X, backspace, and click somewhere near X again... you'd better not say I clicked X!
- remram 2y ago
  I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until next space. I don't usually type the "https:// https://" part if I'm spelling out a URL, and I type many more identifiers than URLs anyhow.
  - RunningDroid 2y ago
    > I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until next space. AnySoftKeyboard¹ has this²; the button disappears with the suggestions but the setting only "sticks" until you dismiss the keyboard. 1: https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io 2: https://i.imgur.com/CE1xeGY.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/CE1xeGY.jpeg
- Analemma_ 2y ago
  I don't think your keyboard can help with that? All that stuff is being done by the operating system.
  - xelamonster 2y ago
    Maybe on iOS? On Android the keyboard app is fully in charge of autocorrect so they all behave a bit differently.
Lutzb 2y ago
As a German, let me capitalize letters by pressing shift at the end of the word. Swiftkey had this feature. Afaik GBoard does not.
- magarnicle 2y ago
  Do you mean capitalize the whole word you've just typed?
  - TheSalarian 2y ago
    That's how Swiftkey works, yeah. If you put your cursor at the end of a word, hacker for example, pressing shift once gives Hacker as an autocorrect option, and a 2nd press gives HACKER.
luke-stanley 2y ago
-Use an old phone remotely as a wireless gesture typing keyboard (forwarding the keyboard I/O) -Programmer mode with SSH sanity -Custom tiny local language models for better, wiser, more funny suggestions that the end user could have full control of (the sky is the limit for this) -Maybe I want to use my task list as context for typing faster, maybe I want a synced knowledge network -Maybe I can want to search for "man" emoji and have it really work -Maybe I want real time translation built in, using a custom endpoint running on my GPU or latest Whisper distilled model? Maybe a new one that can do Markdown sarcasm formatting? I could go on and on. Text remains a very powerful input and output. They're not as smart as everybody who could be hacking on it, people love hacking on keyboards, for good reason. Gboard has many great features, privacy could even be one of them in the future! Swiping and it's custom models, that kinda know what weird topics I've typed, but not full GPT level, are pretty neat and make it worth considering, but hey, open source will get better and better. We live in an amazing time, with antitrust break up of Google being considered, open sourcing it and continuing to work on it with open source community could be a small win that could keep giving, just saying. Typed in on Gboard!

When I start typing a string that begins with "https:// https://", disable autocorrect/auto capitalization. It gets frustrating having to fight the keyboard any time you type a url.

bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Yes, and if I type X, backspace, X, backspace, and click somewhere near X again... you'd better not say I clicked X!
remram 2y ago
I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until next space. I don't usually type the "https:// https://" part if I'm spelling out a URL, and I type many more identifiers than URLs anyhow.
- RunningDroid 2y ago
  > I'd take a one-touch button to temporarily disable autocorrect/auto-capitalization. Either toggled or until next space. AnySoftKeyboard¹ has this²; the button disappears with the suggestions but the setting only "sticks" until you dismiss the keyboard. 1: https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io 2: https://i.imgur.com/CE1xeGY.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/CE1xeGY.jpeg
Analemma_ 2y ago
I don't think your keyboard can help with that? All that stuff is being done by the operating system.
- xelamonster 2y ago
  Maybe on iOS? On Android the keyboard app is fully in charge of autocorrect so they all behave a bit differently.

Lutzb 2y ago

As a German, let me capitalize letters by pressing shift at the end of the word. Swiftkey had this feature. Afaik GBoard does not.

magarnicle 2y ago
Do you mean capitalize the whole word you've just typed?
- TheSalarian 2y ago
  That's how Swiftkey works, yeah. If you put your cursor at the end of a word, hacker for example, pressing shift once gives Hacker as an autocorrect option, and a 2nd press gives HACKER.

luke-stanley 2y ago

-Use an old phone remotely as a wireless gesture typing keyboard (forwarding the keyboard I/O) -Programmer mode with SSH sanity -Custom tiny local language models for better, wiser, more funny suggestions that the end user could have full control of (the sky is the limit for this) -Maybe I want to use my task list as context for typing faster, maybe I want a synced knowledge network -Maybe I can want to search for "man" emoji and have it really work -Maybe I want real time translation built in, using a custom endpoint running on my GPU or latest Whisper distilled model? Maybe a new one that can do Markdown sarcasm formatting? I could go on and on. Text remains a very powerful input and output. They're not as smart as everybody who could be hacking on it, people love hacking on keyboards, for good reason. Gboard has many great features, privacy could even be one of them in the future! Swiping and it's custom models, that kinda know what weird topics I've typed, but not full GPT level, are pretty neat and make it worth considering, but hey, open source will get better and better. We live in an amazing time, with antitrust break up of Google being considered, open sourcing it and continuing to work on it with open source community could be a small win that could keep giving, just saying. Typed in on Gboard!