grocy-android VS FlorisBoard

Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management (version 3.4.2): ERP beyond your fridge, now on your phone – An awesome companion app for grocy

Not using them personally, but I guess Barcode Buddy and Grocy Android both do exactly that (and more).

I know there is Grocy but it requires a self hosted instance... I just want a normal heading and list app (reminder is bonus), Currently i am using Lists it does all except it no longer actively developed and doesn't have Material You theme...

Seems like there wasn't a release/tag made for 3.0, but the android build manifest was updated with a new version. That is what's being checked by fdroid in case of the grocy app. There seems to be a changelog (raw), but I'm not sure it's complete, since no official release was being made. Since nightlys seem to exist now, maybe fdroid needs to adjust their auto-update mode, but that's just my observation.

Grocy: Self-hosted Groceries Management (version 3.0.0): ERP beyond your fridge, now on your phone – An awesome companion app for Grocy

Even with https://github.com/patzly/grocy-android?

I wanted to run grocy on my phone (android) without running my own server and being able to use it completely offline. The devs of the android-app mentioned that implementing offline transactions is a lot of work and therefore, understandably, not a priority and in this issue someone advised to use termux to set up grocy locally, so I made the attempt to run grocy through termux. Eventually I succeeded but termux has some peculiarities in comparison to a proper linux terminal, so the Installation guide was only a rough guideline.

If you're using an older version of app there was an issue when scanning grocycode with an external scanner or manually entering grocycode (https://github.com/patzly/grocy-android/issues/472) that was fixed in version 2.1.0.

Just stumbled upon the Android app[1] while randomly browsing F-Droid and thought I'd share the project as a whole. Kind of a bummer that the Android app doesn't support having a local database, but it's a very cool concept regardless.

[1]: https://patrick.zedler.xyz/grocy/

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.

Keyboard → OpenBoard (OpenBoard Upadted Fork, FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released...)

You could try https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard, available on F-droid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.