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I don't use Android a lot, but finding a keyboard puts me off the most every time. Obviously I don't want Google to earn more money by me typing. Unexpected ke

I don't use Android a lot, but finding a keyboard puts me off the most every time. Obviously I don't want Google to earn more money by me typing. Unexpected keyboard is one of my favorites. But suggesting word completions would be nice. I see no reason why this could not be done with free software and locally.

mdaniel 2y ago
For sure it can[1] but Julow's perspective is that it's a lot of work so if it's important to someone the contribution would need to come from the community: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/issues/343 https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard/issues/343 Interestingly while searching for that issue I learned that FUTO claims to have both a machine learning based autocomplete[2] and a swipe input so I'll definitely have to try that out. I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to teach FUTO about the corner keys than to try and integrate predictions and swiping into Unexpected 1: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard/ https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.menny.android.anysof... 2: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/FUTO-Keyboard#transformer-based-predictions-and-autocorrect https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/FUTO-... 3: https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/FUTO-Keyboard#basic-swipe-typing https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/keyboard-wiki/-/wikis/FUTO-...