There are many bad stereotypes about Android, and Samsung isn’t helping by shipping such a bad keyboard to millions of Android users.
Google’s Emoji Kitchen feature has me locked in to Gboard unfortunately
…kitchen?
Nani???
Also I want to highlight that heliboard devs together with NLNet are running an opt-in program to collect gesture typing data to make an open source library to further divorce from having to use closed source Google gesture library
https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/
Edit: p.s. if you somehow used to use this nifty iOS/android keyboard called nintype a decade ago where you can feature type using two fingers, heliboard also can do it. It’s awesome.
Is there any way to use Heliboard with voice to text recognition?
I’ve been contributing. I use swipe text all the time and I love that I get to help with his project.
If you’re using a default keyboard on almost any mobile device you’re only hurting yourself. The Google one is annoyingly good, but every other keyboard I’ve encountered from mobile manufacturers (including Apple) is just terrible.
GBoard is so good, I have tried others but nothing comes close.
No other keyboard does the backspace swipe like gboard does. It is the reason I get hung up on whatever else I try.
It’s funny to me how different everyone is. I HATE that feature in Gboard. Maybe cause I suck at picking my finger all the way up during swipe texting 🤣
Someone has never used an iPhone keyboard.
My last phone was an iPhone 13. One of the reasons I wanted to switch was because of how bad the keyboard was. Switching to gboard on iOS doesn’t really help. It’s a reskinned iOS keyboard so there’s latency and lag issues.
I bought one and used it for 3 months and then had to ditch it. The keyboard was a big reason. So bad. Unbelievable that they haven’t fixed it…
I kept mine for 4 years and honestly enjoyed it with the exception of the keyboard, the lack of FOSS apps, and the way the filesystem works. Switching to gboard afterwards and making the keys even bigger was amazing on an android.
i recently went from an iPhone 12 Pro to a Fairphone 6, because reasons. However, good god… The iphone keyboard is atrocious. For anything other than English, it’s like Apple think languages don’t have words in them.
Worst experience I’ve ever had with a soft keyboard was iphone’s. Never again.
Edit: words.
I’ve been using SwiftKey since before Microslop bought them, I think way back to my Nexus 7 tablet. It’s… enshitefied in some ways with extra bloat, but I’m way too used to it at this point and I do love it’s customization options.
It’s worse in the States where people seem to think that Samsung = Android.
I stopped using Samsung many years ago because despite them being great at hardware, they suck at software.
Apps notwithstanding; they did some great things to move the industry forward with OneUI. I still prefer it over the more native google Android on my Fairphone 6.
Also the samsung gallery app is amazing. Automatic tagging, great editing tools, all native to the phone without any google cloud necessary. Samsung Notes is solid. Migrating from one phone to another transferred all apps and their settings too, even F-droid ones, rather than having the play store simply redownload them.But, despite all that, there was a reason I made the switch to Fairphone. Fuck samsung and their overall business practices.
I had to send 3 phones in a row back to them because apparently they can’t even plug the screen into the motherboard properly. That’s why I gave up on them.
The Samsung keyboard is bad? I remember when it had a number row and we were all just like “whoa, this is what we asked for.” I just use Gboard on mine (S10). If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
