Hey guys, im just got rid of gboard and im already missing the autocorrect and swipe to type features. I know there has to be a privacy friendly option out there. Thank you for your help; im fat fingering every other key, pls save me

  • NovalingEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    Anyone got a FOSS keyboard that doesn’t suck AND can type in Japanese? I was using Gboard with wifi off for almost a year, but switched recently to Fctix + Anthy (didn’t even know Fctix had Android keyboards!) but the typing kinda sucks (click suggestion and doesn’t add a space after the word, accidentally slide on space so I start typing within a word) and it doesn’t do autocorrect.

    Mozc is so old it literally doesn’t work on newer Android versions.

    I checked Floris and Heliboard, and neither support it 🙁

    • Yauriki
      3•2 months ago

      I was too looking for a Japanese keyboard as a new Japanese learner. None of them seem to support it yet.

      Fctix has been kind of a blessing to me, since I don’t own a PC sadly. I agree the typing kinda sucks, it has less functionality. But as for space after a selected suggestion word you can configure that behavior in the settings.

      Anyways I do hope the Japanese keyboard input will be supported on the more optimized keyboards eventually, if you find anything better before I do please let me know!

      • NovalingEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        Felt that. I definitely miss having a kana flick keyboard on my phone, I prefer it to qwerty conversion. I especially needed a good keyboard cause I was using FOSS apps to do my Wanikani reviews on my phone (Smouldering Durtles).

        If someone does make something good, I’ll try to notify you, or make a notice in the Japanese learning communities on Lemmy 😉