Default keyboard text correct never shows on any web browser

graphite-or-graphene

I do not understand and tried every setting possible. It seems the community mentality is to stop using the default keyboard that comes with grapheneos (because it sucks so bad in so many ways), and just go running back to google and use the gboard keyboard. Kinda stupid to run right back to the company you just tried so hard to remove from your life, even if you do turn off network permissions to the keyboard.

Scenario: autocorrect / spell correct / text correct, call it what you want. It works every time, in every app except any web browser. I have tried Vanadium, duck duck go, etc.

Why?

roamer4223

graphite-or-graphene BadRobot

Sorry but first of all, what is soo bad about the default keyboard? It is perfectly functional as a default keyboard.

Also, there are other options other than GBoard if you want. I personally like HeliBoard. It is another open source keyboard based on AOSP OpenBoard, but it has many great/useful features. One of the app variants even allows you to load a gesture/swipe typing library, if you want that feature.

Last point though - I have disabled all other keyboards and spellcheckers, other than the GrapheneOS Keyboard and spellchecker, so I could test your situation, and my autocorrect and spellchecker is working just fine in my browser (Vanadium). I have tested it on multiple websites as well.

Perhaps you have something configured in a way that prevents yours from working? Have you made sure your keyboard and spellcheck settings are turned on and everything?

Apologies if I have misunderstood something by the way, but yea everything is working fine on my end so just thought I would comment in case I could help at all...

BadRobot

Agreed. Here looking firbthe same answer

graphite-or-graphene

roamer4223

"Apologies if I have misunderstood something by the way," LOL yup you did, but that's ok. Let me explain better. I like the default keyboard and use it, (the AOSP one to be clear) it's the only one on my phone. You are correct that Vanadium has what I am looking for. Try this and it might help you to understand better. Install the duck duck go browser app, launch it. You will notice there is no bar right above the keyboard with autocorrect. I guess it's the duck duck go app that causes this, not sure. I would like autocorrect but the reason I need this extra bar is that it ALSO includes the ability to use the app "FUTO voice input" which provides the ability to perform LOCAL voice recognition!!!! It's amazing. However because the futo app latches onto the AOSP keyboard, and ONLY the AOSP keyboard (will not work with gboard, etc - thank god) you must be able to have the autocorrect bar above the keyboard for the mic button to show.

roamer4223

graphite-or-graphene okay, to be fair I think I was polite and your response was fairly patronizing. Also, is it a misunderstanding if you didn't explain or mention these things in the first place? Anyway, I haven't heard of this FUTO voice app. I will have a look into it. Or somebody else may be able to help you better.

roamer4223

graphite-or-graphene I just had a thought, is duck duck go browser app forcing the keyboard to go into 'incognito mode' or like a password mode when it doesn't learn from your typing? I think in that case, that top bar doesn't show

graphite-or-graphene

roamer4223

Nah man, not patronizing, all is chill :-) as for the app forcing into incognito mode, there is no way to tell. There is no setting for this so it's possible seeing as how privacy focused duck duck go is. However I am inferring based on your above statement then, that it must be forced into an "always on incognito mode" or something similar. This would all make sense as to why the top bar is missing. Thanks for the tip, which led me to find the following information. In short; when is comes to the duckduckgo app, auto correct is purposely hidden for security reasons.

"While DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine, it doesn’t provide autocorrect features within its app. If autocorrect is essential to you, you might consider using a different search engine app or using DuckDuckGo through a web browser with a different keyboard.
Remember that the DuckDuckGo app primarily focuses on privacy and doesn’t offer the same features as comprehensive keyboard apps. If autocorrect is crucial for your typing experience, consider using a different keyboard alongside DuckDuckGo for your searches"

roamer4223

graphite-or-graphene glad we are friends again then ;)

Have you heard of this app, Transribro? It's fairly new and unfortunately just US English ATM. But this is an alternative way of doing voice transcription, without sending any data to the cloud. It's made by a GOS community member @soupslurpr, who has made a few other awesome apps as well.

Just thought it was worth a try anyway :)

roamer4223

graphite-or-graphene Edit: I should mention, Transribro works as a keyboard that you switch to, then it switches back after you've finished talking. Therefore it's an alternative method :)