Android

For about a decade now google has been changing shit for no particular reason, this is just the latest.

The fuck? If you’re gonna change the shape of the keys, at least make them hexagons. Because as we all know, hexagons are the bestagons.

Reminds me of this

Circles are the worst possible shape in terms of making efficient use of the limited screen space available on a phone. The screen is rectangular and nearly everything we display falls into rectangular arrangements. Using circles just means there is less room on each key to show useful information, like the long-hold functions.

I'm not opposed to change, but change entirely for the sake of change usually produces bad results.

Don't use gboard, rather download a keyboard from F-Droid and avoid the keylogging :-)

Heliboard is the best right now

We didn't ask for the red to pink colour fade on the Youtube playbar either but here we are...

I switched to Heliboard and I couldn't be more happier! It is just as good as any proprietary keyboards.

Late-stage tech bros, devoid of innovation and flailing at their precious cup game.

I'm so over this garbage. RIP smartphones.

g what? I only know Heliboard

Good time for FOSS keyboard apps to get some more love

Heliboard and Futo were the recommendations from what I remember?

Gboard is so far the only one i know that actually works with my use case. Swiping with multiple languages active at once, and actually figuring out what I want to type.

I'm running it without Google services or network access.

I've tried a few keyboards over the years, and the only one that I actually liked was actual malicious adware.

Looking forward to seeing good suggestions in this thread.

I've been following Google's material 3 since its release. There's pretty good examples of it, like the calculator app, but half of google's own apps don't follow their own guidelines, and they keep making changes to stray away and make their designs even uglier. Gboard was one of the final hopes for google's design. this better be a bug or something

FUTO keyboard. Try it. Say bye to gboard.

I wanna switch to FOSS alternatives but swiping is either funky (FUTO) or not available for now (Floris). I ended up downgrading gboard to an older version since all this emoji stuff (especially the bitmoji sticker nonsense) really grinds my gears.

I like this. But this should be an option.

All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.