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Alternatives to gboard with gesture/swype style typing? (lemmy.world)

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I'm looking to replace gboard and I have spent about a decade using gesture based typing. Is there any alternative that is private that gesture based typing actually work on?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

None whatsoever. You're good to use heliboard with the gesture input library. There is also the FUTO keyboard, which somehow has a gesture input library built in. I would presume theirs is FOSS but I've not done my homework on this.

E: as someone else mentioned, you can deny network permission for gboard with ROMs like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS etc. This is what I did for many years until heliboard came along.