I’ve been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn’t really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the “libjni_latinimegoogle.so” file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select “Load gesture typing library”. When it asks you to select a file, select the “libjni” file and swiping should work just fine.

  • Anbalsilfer@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 months ago

    I think so. The last update was in december -21, which doesn’t seem that far back for a keyboard app. I’ve not contacted the developer by their support channel email so I don’t know if they respond that way. I’ve personally had very few problems with it over many years’ use.

      • Anbalsilfer@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        They are still on the app store, but unlike the keyboard app itself don’t seem to be updated for modern Android devices. For example:

        I’ve sent Exideas a support email asking why this is the case, so I guess when and whether they respond will be something of a litmus test of how active their support is these days. In the meantime, it seems the language modules/dictionaries can be downloaded as APKs directly from their website. They should not at all be necessary to use the keyboard, in any case.

        • aurele@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 months ago

          I’ve sent them a main as well this morning. The dictionaries apk are also only available using http.

          • Anbalsilfer@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I just noticed I received a reply, two days ago:

            Google had added some new contraints and we just updated the several of our language modules. We updated English, French and German, the most popular ones, for now. English and French are available now and German is in review.

            Please, if you can, give it a try and see if the problem is rectified.

            So apparently the support is still active.

          • aurele@sh.itjust.works
            Français
            1·
            11 months ago

            And I got a reply: “we are working on it”. This is great news, let’s see what hapens!