Anyone tried this? Works perfectly for me. Any reason why I should go back to the OpenBoard fork with Swipe?

      • pruneaue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Florisboard also has gesture typing, however i rarely use it. I find i make a lot more mistakes than i did swipe typing with gboard

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          It doesn’t have suggestions tho, so swipe is kinda useless if you don’t get the right word.

          And the rebooted version has been in alpha development for so long, it’s essentially dead.

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      Jeez, I tried it before and just tried again now and I can not find the swipe to text option. I think I’m either blind or stupid. I hope I’m not both

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          1 year ago

          Dude !! You made a video in order to help me ?! Thank you so much.

          I don’t have the option for gesture typing though. I have this version installed:

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            That’s bizarre. That’s the same version I have. The only thing I can think of is that your system language isn’t English and maybe it removes that option. ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ If that is the case it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t work for different languages.

            You could try switching the system language to verify that that is what is happening. I have no idea what kind of effort it takes to add that feature for other languages but you could always ask the Dev.

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            Maybe it doesn’t work for French? Or just the gui option isn’t exposed for French, idk… Try switching Android language to English, see what happens.

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              1 year ago

              Uninstall and reinstall did the trick 🤔

              Thanks for helping :)

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        1 year ago

        Are you sure you have the fork with gesture typing support? They’re both called OpenBoard with no external distinction.

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      1 year ago

      Hey fellow Lemmy … Thx a lot for this tip!

      Was messing around with floris today, which is nice … But funding this fork is great - missed swiping more than expected

      Unfortunately the development seems stale

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        1 year ago

        I like openboard because of the similarities to gboard and this fits the bill well. However I do agree that this fork doesn’t seem active. But I have a feeling that perhaps it was just a personal project to add swipe to openboard.