Feature request for swipe typing with keyboard
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hakayova Hi. GrapheneOS currently uses the AOSP Keyboard, which isn't receiving feature updates from upstream.
I would recommend installing a keyboard that implements that feature instead.
Florisboard seems to have this feature available for English:
https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
Otherwise, you could try out Gboard.
Thank you so much @matchboxbananasynergy. I am glad I asked! Thank you for your suggestions too, very much appreciated. Thanks again for being a great support!
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hakayova Second your request, but in the meantime there's Floris & GBoard. I've got both installed. Floris is nice and highly customizable with regards to themes. It also supports swipe/glide typing, and does it nicely. GBoard is more functional with predictive text and more useful (to me) autocorrect, as well as having swipe of course. I set GBoard to only have Sensors permission, nothing else and it works well. Some of the GIF support is unavailable this way, but that's a reasonable tradeoff for GBoard to not phone home to google. To clarify, these observations are only for English, I haven't tried other languages.
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Glide fork of OpenBoard also exists (https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard). It does use Google's proprietary glide library (libjni_latinimegoogle.so), but there's no privacy concern since this is just the glide implementation and the keyboard itself has no network permissions.
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hakayova Do you have to compile it? There's an apk on its release page (https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases/tag/v1.4.5-gesture-typing), it should work.
