I wouldn't doubt for a second that, as hostile as G**gle is to anonymity, they aren't actively implementing the ability for all their apps to vacuum up as much information as possible from one another and phoning it home by whatever avenue possible.

As for a keyboard with swipe ability, M*crosoft SwiftKey is the closest I've found. It has its quirks initially if you are otherwise accustomed to Gboard.

Thanks both. I tried MS one annoyingly you can't remove the prediction bar.

There is FUTO keyboard, florisboard and heliboard. Try them.

The preinstalled Keyboard is so minimal and outdated, I consider it a placeholder

Use Obtainium to get the apps and this website to find the configs

Apps.obtainium.imranr.dev

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Related to OPs question if I have both Gboard and Gcam in the main profile, all with network revoked and no Gplay services installed, would there be any data sharing? I always assumed it requires another Google app with network access for this to be a problem.

I tried my best to use Swiftkey but I'm having hard time getting used to it. Currently using heliboard however I would like the Swype function which I think Gboard gets it right all the time. Of course, I could install the swipe library but since that is closed source it gives me a pause.

    vagr

    I believe you are correct because if the apps cannot communicate/pass their collected data to a app with internet access then no data will be able to be uploaded.

      I'll repeat myself again but this question gets asked alot of times so:

      check this on what GBoard can do and what it collects: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/gboard_kamil.pdf
      TL;DR if using Google Play Services it can send data even with network access denied

      regarding an alternative to GBoard you can use Heliboard and sideload swipe recognition library ripped from GBoard: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4648-which-keyboard-is-most-likely-to-replace-the-aosp-keyboard-on-grapheneos/80

      Hope this helps.

        Byku This paper is a blatant misinformation. GrapheneOS developers said many times that GBoard using interprocess communication to send data and spy on you is a baseless conspiracy theory. The paper holds no value when we compare it to the words of the developers. Please stop spreading such baseless claims.

            DeletedUser46 That guy provided step by step explanation of his methodology and what were his discoveries. Right now I don't see any reason to trust your claim over that paper. (It may work different though on GOS where Play Services don't have full access.)

                Byku You're not trusting my claim, rather GrapheneOS developers. They are much more knowledgeable and trustworthy than a random student.

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                    DeletedUser46 But that's just argumentum ad verecundiam. I'd like to hear arguments why this paper is wrong. I'm not claiming everything is 100% factually correct in there. The author himself recommends further analysis. But it's a scientific dissertation definitely not written like a conspiracy theory.

                        DeletedUser46 GrapheneOS developers said many times that GBoard using interprocess communication to send data and spy on you is a baseless conspiracy theory.

                        Please provide a source where they concretely said that it is a conspiracy theory rather than it being an unlikely possibility. Even then, I don't remember them ever mentioning this topic specifically.