What does HackerNews think of florisboard?

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

Language: Kotlin

#32 in Android

#5 in Kotlin

Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage | Sep 2022

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Florisboard: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

How Swipe Typing Works | Apr 2022

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FlorisBoard is open source and has an implementation for this (en-us only for now): https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

It's okay, but definitely worse than proprietary alternatives right now. But at least it's under active development.

Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf] | Oct 2021

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FlorisBoard is really nice. Among all of the FOSS Android keyboards, I've found the gesture typing on FlorisBoard to be the most accurate.

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

Closing The Portal App | Oct 2021

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https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard is currently the leading FOSS keyboard, even with swipe input (swipe is English only for now and not as good quality as the proprietary solutions, but it's the first step)