I’ve been using SwiftKey for waaaaaaay too long. I shoulda switched when Microsoft bought them out.

But old habits die hard. And I love the skin I use.

Help they know everything I’ve typed on a phone. That can’t be good for anyone.

Edit: Holy fuck everyone, thanks for all of the responses!

I went with Heliboard, and typing this, it looks like I have to change a couple more settings to get it like I had Swiftkey, but I already like it more.

The fact you can basically make your own skin by changing all of the colors of the keyboard is amazing.

Fuck microsoft’s ai keyboard.

Heliboard for lyfe!

Edit edit: trying to delete my data from Swiftkey was INSANELY hard. I couldn’t do it from my phone, so I had to login with a computer. They think they are slick… Fuckers…

  • DessalinesA
    272·
    8 months ago

    Here’s one I made, called Thumb-Key. No internet permissions, made to be private.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train
      17·
      8 months ago

      Darn it, I popped into this thread to suggest Thumb-Key, and was beaten to it by the maker of the keyboard!

      Thank you for making my phone usage much faster and enjoyable (written using Thumb-Key of course!) :)

    • Muun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      I use this after messagease suddenly decided to charge a subscription fee.

      It’s pretty darn close in functionality. Highly recommend taking the time to learn it.

      • DessalinesA
        13·
        8 months ago

        Thx! Ya the main reason I made it, was because messagease development died, and all my emails to the messagease team (their only contact email) went unanswered for like 2+ years. So it seemed like a good opportunity to do a from-scratch open source rewrite.

        • Muun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          I actually forked your code so I could customize the keyboard a little bit. I was impressed that I didn’t have any problems building the thing right away. Doesn’t always happen for me with open source projects.

          One thing that was driving me nuts was how sensitive the swipe gestures on the spacebar are. I guess my thumbs always do a slight swipe when I’m pressing space and it was moving the cursor position on me. I wiped out all of that code. If you’re taking suggestions, a way to disable swipe gestures on the spacebar would be a cool add. I’ll see if I can get together a PR for it as well and be a part of the solution.

          • DessalinesA
            2·
            8 months ago

            Sure, I’d accept a PR for adding a setting to disable all spacebar swipes.

    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
      2·
      8 months ago

      Hey! I tried your keyboard out when I was setting up my new phone - very cool and innovative idea!

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Thank you for making this!

      I really need to try making something for Android, looks like fun