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New Florisboard beta introduces addon support (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

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[-] land@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago

Without suggestions/predictions and auto-correction it’s unable especially for a lazy user like me. Hopefully someone makes extensions for them.

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

FlorisBoard is my favourite FLOSS Android keyboard. Waiting for swype-typing feature to be implemented to it.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

HeliBoard has it for some time now

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

It has a proprietary Google's implementation.

[-] baner@mujico.org 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I am really looking forward to a more stable version to replace Gkeyboard.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Wdym. I'm using it for years withou issues. It's perfecttly stablle

[-] jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Its in perpetual beta like lawnchair where the only releases are betas/alphas while the stable is left behind quite a lot

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The stable version is perfectly fine. The beta is just the intermediate version untilsuggestions are ready.both are stable and the beta label is no problem. Development just takes some zime. It's difficult without sponsor

[+] AnokLola@lemm.ee -8 points 1 month ago

With Samsung's AI grammar correction, I can't put it down.

If you're willing to implement something like this, it would be amazing.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Grammar or spelling?

What does it correct that you need?

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Gogle has it too, if you're writng an email itll fix grammer spelling. punctuation , etc!

[-] Awe@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's literally a Grammerly addon (but I'm not OP)

I'd be interested in one for LanguageTool instead

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What is language tool?

Edit: Oh hey, I use this in Thunderbird. It's great!

Link

[-] AnokLola@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Everything from grammar to spelling and even the typing style. It's really fast and direct, completely free. It uses AI to do all the work and works with almost every language.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't used the Samsung keyboard in years so I don't know what the comparison would be. I do think that for the most part, FOSS keyboards lag a couple years behind Google, Microsoft, etc. This is one that looks promising, but is still a long way off from a “complete” app.

I guess it depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a number of private keyboards now to choose from, but if you trust Samsung (Google, MS, etc.) with your keyboard data then it may make it worth the upgrade in features