Just started using AnySoftKeyboard and I’m loving it so far. But I want to know if it is actually private and safe to use.

Thanks!

  • opt9@feddit.ch
    9·
    1 year ago

    They are pretty solid and I trust them. Their spell checker is a bit poor, but Its pretty good for privacy.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    The obvious privacy hole of Android keyboard apps is what pushed me back to the desktop for a bunch of tasks I had been doing on mobile.

    AnySoft works, congrats to them for giving us a FOSS option. But SwiftKey and company are just so much better when you’re attempting the awful task of writing a whole paragraph of text with your thumbs. So my solution has been to stop attempting this task.

      • N4CHEM
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, do you know if it’s in F-Droid? Or did you install the APK from GitHub?

        When I follow your link and tap on the F-Droid link it takes me to the original OpenBoard instead of this fork. I guess they might just have kept the original Readme file with the F-Droid link to the original app…

        • Gogo Sempai@programming.dev
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s not on F-Droid, likely because the swipe implementation that they’ve injected doesn’t have an OSS license. There’s a whole discussion on it in this thread. There’s no privacy issue here as the fork also doesn’t have network permissions or anything, but I can see why they’d be skeptical adding this piece of code to the main repo which has a proper FOSS license.

          • N4CHEM
            1·
            1 year ago

            OK, thanks for your reply. I’ll get the APK from GitHub and try it soon then. I hope there’s some way of removing words that the App’s dictionary has learned too. It drives me mad that OpenBoard has learned some of my spelling mistakes and now autocorrects to them.