Openboard is virtually dead from what I can see. So that leaves Florisboard as the only open source alternative (that I know of) that could really be used by the masses. And the world would actually be a way better place if we all opensource freaks could install Florisboard on our family/friends phones and them barely noticing anything weird.

The problem is... no word suggestions yet. It's been years and we are still lacking what is almost an essential feature of a phone's keyboard.

I wish I could really work on it, but I lack the knowledge to do so; so I hope I am bringing some attention to the project.

Is there any other alternative I am unaware of?

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[–] ray@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not open source at all. But I wanted to mention I find yandex board to be much better than gboard. Swipe works well, speech to text is reliable (unlike gboard for me), and it has a nice long clipboard history.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean it's not open source? FlorisBoard is Apache licensed, which to my understanding is is fairly permissive even for OSL.

[–] ray@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I was writing that message quickly last night. I meant that Yandex Keyboard (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.yandex.androidkeyboard) is not open source. I know FlorisBoard is :)