HeliBoard

What does APP stand for?

Heliboard, FOSS keyboard app. Very good.

On my Pixil 9?

HeliBoard.

I did DL the closed source swipe library (never know when I might need swipe type capability.)

Supplemented with FUTO Voice Input.

The clipboard/paste functionality alone is chef’s kiss.

Is it even legal to use lemmy with any other keyboard than thumb-key?

SwiftKey, as it supports 4 simultaneous languages pretty well, including diacritics and predictions. It’s owned by Microsoft so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have this specific requirement.

FlorisBoard

I’m soooo fucking glad for this question. I’ve been using thumbkey for like a year, after I got fed up using a normal keyboard. It’s sooo convenient I feel like I make a lot less typos using it and sometimes I can even type without lookin at my screen

Typewise.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.icoaching.typewise

Once you get used to it, it is very good. Nice large buttons, fast typing, strong privacy (e.g. EU based, on-device-only learning for next word suggestions), customizable, and you can also get the pro version forever with a single purchase instead of using the subscription model.

Going to try thumb key thanks to this thread and see how it goes. Seems like a steep learning curve but I dig the concept of it. Wrote this (slowly) in it.

8vim is wonderful. I love to use it in combination with droidvim and/or vim on my terminal emulator

I just let ai do whatever it wants

Thumb-key by Lemmy’s own dessalines. I even contributed a layout early on, and it’s still there.

Sadly SwiftKey cause it’s hard to find a good enough F-droid alternative with a working auto-complete. Plus ThumbKey when typing with one hand.

I think I might have found a replacement for Gboard just now. First I found Fossify had a keyboard, but no Japanese input. Then I found one I’m gonna have to get used to that I’m currently trying out:

スミレ日本語キーボード ( Sumire Japanese keyboard )

I need to comb through settings to see if this is actually the keyboard for me, but I am liking it sk far. Really have to check if for their English QWERTY board there is a setting to bring the period to the letter section or if it is trapped with the other punctuation and make it so it automatically puts a space after doing one of their suggested words in the top bar thing.

The Japanese board is 9-key and also has a QWERTY romaji board, so I’m satisfiedright now. I personally don’tcare about the romaji board since I can read hiragana and katakana and I prefer 9-key because it’s what I am used to on Gboard, but it’s coolfor those that need it for any reason.

I also just learned before posting my comment that the keyboard defaults to that Japanese 9-key everytime you bring up the keyboard. Not a big deal, just another thing to learn and get used to.

Edit: switching to HeliBoard for English and switching as need be for Japanese. Just making the switch to get stuff done in a more efficient and timely manner.