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New Florisboard beta introduces addon support (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

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[-] land@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago

Without suggestions/predictions and auto-correction it’s unable especially for a lazy user like me. Hopefully someone makes extensions for them.

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

FlorisBoard is my favourite FLOSS Android keyboard. Waiting for swype-typing feature to be implemented to it.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

HeliBoard has it for some time now

[-] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

It has a proprietary Google's implementation.

[+] AnokLola@lemm.ee -7 points 3 months ago

With Samsung's AI grammar correction, I can't put it down.

If you're willing to implement something like this, it would be amazing.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Grammar or spelling?

What does it correct that you need?

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Gogle has it too, if you're writng an email itll fix grammer spelling. punctuation , etc!

[-] Awe@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I think it's literally a Grammerly addon (but I'm not OP)

I'd be interested in one for LanguageTool instead

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What is language tool?

Edit: Oh hey, I use this in Thunderbird. It's great!

Link

[-] AnokLola@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

Everything from grammar to spelling and even the typing style. It's really fast and direct, completely free. It uses AI to do all the work and works with almost every language.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I haven't used the Samsung keyboard in years so I don't know what the comparison would be. I do think that for the most part, FOSS keyboards lag a couple years behind Google, Microsoft, etc. This is one that looks promising, but is still a long way off from a “complete” app.

I guess it depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a number of private keyboards now to choose from, but if you trust Samsung (Google, MS, etc.) with your keyboard data then it may make it worth the upgrade in features