Submitted 10 hours ago by King@blackneon.net to technology@beehaw.org
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In my search for good keyboard that support AMOLED mode, I found out about FlorisBoard which looks perfect to me. It even supports Halmak Keyboard Layout, which I didn’t expect to find at any Android Keyboard.
Which make me ask, How is this keyboard not popular?
I use futo keynoard ans I dind it to be a better experiemve
FUTO Keyboard is my favourite.
I think FUTO is very shady company from my reading about it.
I am not saying they are evil, but they are very sus.
I’m interested if you have to reliable links to share!
I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard
It does not use proprietary typing data. So, it can be slightly worse.
But, you can always contribute some data here: swipe.futo.org
Do you know how to get voice recognition on heliboard?
That’s fair. I know nothing of gesture typing tbh. All I care about is that my apps aren’t spying on me.
Serious question: what problems does the default keyboard have that Florisboard is trying to solve? I’ve never looked at the Android keyboard and thought “I wish this worked differently,” except maybe when I switch languages by accident.
Privacy. I don’t need Google recording my keystrokes.
It depends on the phone’s brand. Samsung’s keyboard is way different from Motorola, for example. The other reasons would be the possibility of customization, and for privacy-minded people, as the keyboard is basically a very sensitive entry point
I really like the ethos of Florisboard, but their spell check is just not in a state that makes it usable for me.
Try my oled theme.
It was on the florisboard theme page but the dev took it down because I made it in florisbord not in a repo
Heliboard has halmak too
How is this keyboard not popular?
their front page explicitly says “Currently in beta state” and according to their docs installation via Google Play requires joining a beta tester group.
that means a random user searching “keyboard” on the Play store isn’t going to see it. likewise if a friend told you “I use Florisboard” and you searched for it by name in the Play store. if you’re not already in the beta test group the direct link to the app page literally 404s.
it’s certainly available to power users who already know they want it, but it’s sort of pointless to ask why it’s not popular at this stage of its development.
WEEEEELLLL that’s what Fdroid is for and my friends with android all already have fdroid because “youtube downloaders be there” is all I had to say.
They just like the google keyloggerboard.
Got a shit tonne of experience with open source keyboards. Literally the only kind of app I can say I have good enough experience to have an opinion on and heliboard has hands down been the best.
I’ve become dependent on SwiftKey. Unfortunately, it’s invasive. I block network access on the app. It works great without it. It adjusts sensitivity and accuracy based on your typing habits, fixing mistakes over time that I make incessantly on other keyboards.
There's a very simple explanation to every "how is (niche technological thing) not more popular?" questions, and that is simply... Most people are perfectly happy with the defaults.
Don't take this Fediverse instance and the people who interact with it as an example. Even Reddit's tech subs are very niche serving, most of the responders will be people who live and die with tech... which does NOT represent the great majority of people.
Said great majority is perfectly happy with their phones as is. The default keyboard is 99% of the time perfectly usable. So people don't even feel a need to change. Therefore niche keyboards will have very little popularity. Even big ones like SwiftKey.
I also use FlorisBoard, it's the best one I've tried. I don't use spell checking or suggestions so lack of that didn't bother me, the general functionality and design was just better than other options.
Development has recently started on it again, so these missing features will probably be implemented soon, which will probably help it's adoption!
I just got attached to Typewise (despite not being Open Source sadly). It is one of few apps, where I bought an expensive lifetime option.
What is this layout?
Most common letter E is too far right to be useful as single hand Tyler (LH)
How big is your screen?
Maybe they have small hands AND a large screen to compensate. Don’t shame.
Its the short thumb being the issue, I buy the smaller phone screens on purpose
This is my keyboard, love it
leftascenter@jlai.lu 10 hours ago
I tried it, but ended on heliboard which has glide typing, Floris didn’t at the time
lemmyng@piefed.ca 8 hours ago
In addition to glide typing, Heliboard also has some of the best layout customization options out there, such as the option of disabling context-dependent menus. I HAAAAAATE how other keyboards change the keys available on the period key menu on URL bars. I use colons and forward slashes way more often than “.com”, which I use… well, never.