Virtual keyboards have never been great
I’m actually surprised that nobody ever fundamentally reinvented text input for touchscreens in a way that caught on.
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FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 days ago
Fuck yeah: Buttons! Keyboards, expandable storage, and swappable batteries next please. I miss being able to accurately touch type on my phone without looking.
Virtual keyboards have never been great and the mainstream ones are getting enshittified more and more (Heliboard is OK with some minor modification, but it's open source).
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
There’s swipe if that counts.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Kind of seems like reinventing the wheel to me, given that I, at least, can maintain like 50wpm on my phone. I have a hard time imagining another design that could let me type faster.
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days ago
There have been touch-specific keyboard layouts, but not really for English or other languages with Latin characters. You can probably imagine that CJK touch KBs can be pretty creative sometimes though.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Yeah I’m not really a fan of virtual keyboards that are basically querty on the screen. The compact size of the phone kinda demands a different approach.
I use flickboard which helps me minimize typos. My all time favorite virtual keyboard was the now defunct minuum. I was able to reliably touch type with it. I stopped using because it wasn’t open source (but miss it despite that).
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Wow, i immediately installed flickboard, thanks!
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Alright glad my comment helped!