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*Gboard is preparing to add an entirely new kind of activity to log and send to Google along with all of your normal keystrokes
GBoard is actually federated since 2017🤦♂️
https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html?m=1
This is good from the privacy point of view right?
But maybe bad from your phone resources being used to train Google’s platforms.
I haven’t really found a particularly good alternative. I used to use AnySoftKeyboard, but stopped after I found that it was the cause of some performance issues I was having that would occasionally cause characters to be entered out-of-order on a slower Android device.
The lack of decent open source onscreen keyboards was actually one of my larger surprises when I hit Android. I thought that there’d be keyboards with user-specified macro keys, keys that could be dragged into a new layout or added and removed, etc, but no.
I use SwiftKey, I prefer giving my data to Microsoft than Google, Microsoft sells products while you are Googles product.
Microsoft sells you as a product while also having the gall to charge you for it
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Has anyone tried openboard ? Its on fdroid
The one feature that may pull me from Swiftkey. Although i feel like its auto correct and predict are unbeatable somehow for the huge mistakes i make.
GBoard is only fine if you live in US and speak no other languages :)
It doesn’t support automatic space addition after punctuation outside of English, doesn’t support combined keyboard layouts (writing thos from a combined de/en layout on SwiftKey).
This is why I use SwiftKey. Being to type in English while keeping my Spanish keyboard is a godsend
As someone who has had to deal with Android keyboard input fucking everything up for web developers, please Google, stop this madness already.
I’m ignorant on this - what issue does it cause?
