OpenBoard
100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. (by openboard-team)
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| OpenBoard | simple-keyboard | |
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| 49 | 32 | |
| 2,474 | 985 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 5.2 | |
| 8 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OpenBoard
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenBoard.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-27.
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F-Droid, Keyboard Libraries, and Choosing a Browser
After reading a lengthy GitHub discussion at the Openboard repo that went into the logistical options and challenges I decided to go with the less-than-ideal option of using Helium314's Openboard fork with the proprietary Google swipe library (libjni_latinimegoogle.so) imported. I've been using it for a few weeks now and though it feels slightly different than the Gboard I'm used to, the difference has been negligible and I'll be sticking with this setup for the foreseeable future.
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android gboard
Pretty easy search ngl... https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard
- Keyboard for android?
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Keyboard → OpenBoard (FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released...)
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Strangeness when composing SMSs.
If you're willing to switch keyboards, OpenBoard has a fix for it.
- I want to add a Numpad on OpenBoard
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Im building my Foss list.
You can give OpenBoard a try till florisboard is a complete app... And also... My case is also same in terms of boost... So imho the best thing you can do is used a cleaned apk of boost (basically a cleaned version of the app with all ads, trackers and analytics disabled)
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Wich keyboard app (open source) do you use?
OpenBoard and don't look back.
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All my Alternatives to Google Apps
GBoard → OpenBoard (FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released)
simple-keyboard
Posts with mentions or reviews of simple-keyboard.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
- Simple Keyboard. This keyboard is created for those who only need a keyboard and nothing more. (Alternative to Google's non-private gBoard)
- Google keyboard alternative?
- A safe, private keyboard for android?
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Material you keyboard
There is also another Simple Keyboard, not from SimpleMobileTools, which i like better.
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⟳ 7 apps added, 66 updated at f-droid.org
Simple Keyboard (version 5.13): Simply keyboard and nothing more
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How we have been forced out of android development forever. (Play developer account suspended for no reason)
Surely if you're asserting that all the posts ends the way you describe, there wouldn't be cases like Simple Keyboard, that got banned and then Google acknowledged they were wrong, or Pocketwood being banned and then reinstated.
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Wich keyboard app (open source) do you use?
Simple Keyboard - Less than 1 MB in size & very easy to copy-paste the content.
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What are your top apps (bonus points for FOSS)
Simple Keyboard, a keyboard that is great at being a keyboard and nothing else. No spell checking, no suggestions, no swiping, no superfluous permissions, no bloat, no tracking. Because the simple life is the best life.
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EUMI Keyboard
Maybe this could be helpful for you. https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OpenBoard and simple-keyboard you can also consider the following projects:
FlorisBoard - An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.
AnySoftKeyboard - Android (f/w 2.1+) on screen keyboard for multiple languages.
hackerskeyboard - Hacker's Keyboard (official)
vosk - VOSK Speech Recognition Toolkit
foss-android - List of free and open-source alternatives to proprietary Android apps.
Simple-Keyboard - Easy keyboard for inserting all kinds of texts, special characters and numbers.
Android.FHCode - Code editor for android
dns66 - DNS-based Host Blocker (and lightweight ad blocker) for Android
4pdaClient-plus
OpenBoard vs FlorisBoard
simple-keyboard vs AnySoftKeyboard
OpenBoard vs AnySoftKeyboard
simple-keyboard vs FlorisBoard
OpenBoard vs hackerskeyboard
simple-keyboard vs vosk
OpenBoard vs foss-android
simple-keyboard vs Simple-Keyboard
OpenBoard vs vosk
simple-keyboard vs Android.FHCode
OpenBoard vs dns66
simple-keyboard vs 4pdaClient-plus