Vanadium
FlorisBoard
Vanadium | FlorisBoard | |
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88 | 163 | |
726 | 5,367 | |
4.1% | 2.1% | |
9.1 | 8.6 | |
4 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Shell | Kotlin | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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Vanadium
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F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser
While Graphene comes with Vanadium, their own Chromium-based browser, pre-installed I chose to go with Mull as my default browser. There wasn't anything wrong with Vanadium, it's just that I've been using Firefox (and the wonderful uBlock Origin plugin) on my Linux machine for a little while now and have really grown to prefer it to Chromium-based browsers. In my research I had seen a lot of mentions of Mull and Fennec, both based on Firefox but with further hardening and privacy modifications. This detailed browser comparison chart (produced by the developer of Mull) is what ultimately led to me choosing Mull. It's definitely worth a look at the chart even if you aren't in the market for a new browser!
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UnGoogled Chromium
Check out Vanadium, which is part of the GrapheneOS project: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium
- Vanadium version 119.0.6045.163.2 released
- Vanadium version 119.0.6045.134.0 released
- Vanadium version 119.0.6045.53.0 released
- Vanadium version 119.0.6045.53.1 released
- Vanadium version 118.0.5993.65.0 released
- Vanadium version 117.0.5938.140.0 released
FlorisBoard
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F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser
I didn't last long with the stock keyboard before installing AnySoftKeyboard which is one of the few FOSS alternative with support for swipe typing. The experience was... OK. It felt slow and it's accuracy left a lot to be desired. I still had to be slow and pretty accurate, so it didn't really feel like much of a change from the stock experience. FlorisBoard have also introduced their own implementation but the feedback I read suggested it would be much the same as my experience with AnySoftKeyboard's gesture typing.
- Future of the FlorisBoard Project
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Keyboard → OpenBoard (OpenBoard Upadted Fork, FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released...)
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Good keyboard?
You could try https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard, available on F-droid.
- Swipe keyboard app, open source and safe to usw?
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CleverType: Unlock the power of AI with Grammarly, Wordtune and ChatGpt on your keyboard.
I am excited to see how this project will develop. I'm sure starting out with https://florisboard.org/ was extremely helpful. Other devs have started from scratch, but florisboard is already advanced and feature rich. You could keep it open source to alleviate concerns of privacy. Just an idea.
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Android keyboard recommendations ?
The Github code repository (https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard) had an update on February 24, so the app is not abandoned. It reads like they plan a massive update for the next version, and word suggestions will be available.
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Keyboard for Android
I tested two: AnySoftKeyboard, it's stable and works even on very old devices, but it lacks modern features and the settings are really ugly and confusing (but once you look at all of them, you'll be able to make the keyboard the way you like it, is very customizable). And I also tested FlorisBoard, it's modern, beautiful, but it's a work in progress currently in early-beta stage and it has many incomplete or buggy features. So I ended up with AnySoftKeyboard. I know there are others, but it was these two projects that caught my attention the most.
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Custom keyboard extension
Probably only via AOSP mirror. It's an AOSP component so not officially available as its own component. Check out https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard for a GitHub based OSS keyboard.
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Microsoft brings its Bing chatbot to your fingertips with SwiftKey on Android - The Verge
FlorisBoard (perhaps): This one is the dark horse for me. It's layout etc can be all customized to my liking and it's FOSS. But it doesn't have a suggestion provider API etc none of that yet (WIP) so, as it stands now it's "just" a highly customizable FOSS "keyboard" app, and nothing more. I have high hopes for it though.
What are some alternatives?
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
OpenBoard - 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
AnySoftKeyboard - Android (f/w 2.1+) on screen keyboard for multiple languages.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
simple-keyboard
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.
hackerskeyboard - Hacker's Keyboard (official)
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
rime-cantonese - Rime Cantonese input schema | 粵語拼音輸入方案
mulch
8VIM - A Text Editor inside a keyboard, drawing it's inspiration from 8pen and Vim.