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Are there any good privacy friendly keyboards for android? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've looked at a few on fdroid and they all seem like they aren't being maintained anymore.

Edit: I've spent the past day trying most all of the suggested keyboards here and I think I've landed on either Unexpected Keyboard or AnySoftKeyboard. Thanks for all the suggestions. Thumbkey is quite the thing to get used to.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

So this is definitely not for everyone but Thumb-Key is privacy friendly and designed to be used with just one thumb. I have used Thumb-Key (and it's predecessor Message Ease) for about 4 years now and they are way easier for me than qwerty, there are fewer buttons so typos are less frequent and you can access all letter/numbers/punctuation while holding your phone one handed.

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's kinda like Japanese keyboards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In general or just on phones?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

On phones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sonuvabich beat me by 2 minutes! ಥ_ಥ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What made you initially look for an alt keyboard? I have huge problems hitting the buttons on querty and started by looking for a chorded layout.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I sawa video on MessageEase and thought it was neat. Also, I hate legacy problems like QWERTY... And things like qwerty on phone screens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Omg I'm so frustrated with QWTY on phones I'm giving this a try now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've only ever known qwerty for phones, what else is there lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for this. I'm starting to learn it, but already feel like I make less mistakes without autocorrect. Sad as I'm a bad speller.