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What android keyboard app do you use and why? (lemmy.today)

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I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

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[-] StorageAware@lemmings.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Thumb-Key

It took a few weeks to get used to it and a few more to get comfortable, but now I don't think I can go back. Before when I messed up, I would keep repeating the mistake until I was forced to slow down. Now I can get 40-50 WPM when I try.

I do miss some things but they really aren't deal breakers:

Clipboard History
Emoji Search
Autofill Integration

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have been using Thumb Key for a few months and while I generally like it, I have not been able to figure out how to remove things like the voice typing, pasting, and undo shortcuts. Every so often I accidentally hit undo while typing, which just erases my whole message irrecoverably since my other thumb hit the next key right after. I wish I could remove all those swipe controls on the side altogether since I never use them.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just installed it and am finding it very slow going so far. Why are all the letters randomly placed?

[-] november@lemmy.vg 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's not random! The placement is based on letter frequency.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

So not a pattern an actual person can spot, whilst not being totally random.

[-] Player2@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's a pattern that will feel more natural the more you use it

[-] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah you can't really "infer" where a letter is, it just takes time to learn the loiations by heart. I think I have used this for 6 months or so, and I'm able to write 40wpm without looking at the keyboard. But damn was it slow in beginning

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I love this too! However I switched to FlickBoard, which employs the same concept but has more features. For example, I can put the number keys left to the letters. I encourage you to give it a try!

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/se.nullable.flickboard

[-] StorageAware@lemmings.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I actually did try it! Though I don't use numbers enough to justify the smaller hitboxes for the letters so I went back.

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