There are many bad stereotypes about Android, and Samsung isn't helping by shipping such a bad keyboard to millions of Android users.
Samsung is giving all of Android a bad rep with its terrible keyboard
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-keyboard-giving-android-bad-rep-3648898/
38 Comments
db2@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 181d
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
JayGray91@piefed.social · 11 pts · 181d
Also I want to highlight that heliboard devs together with NLNet are running an opt-in program to collect gesture typing data to make an open source library to further divorce from having to use closed source Google gesture library
https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/
Edit: p.s. if you somehow used to use this nifty iOS/android keyboard called nintype a decade ago where you can feature type using two fingers, heliboard also can do it. It's awesome.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 180d
Is there any way to use Heliboard with voice to text recognition?
JayGray91@piefed.social · 2 pts · 180d
I don't personally use it but I see there's an option for it
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 179d
Where do you see the option?
JayGray91@piefed.social · 2 pts · 179d
Go to Settings > Toolbar > Select Toolbar Keys > toggle on voice input
And since I turned it on out of curiosity I tried it. And it just uses Google voice input 😐
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 177d
Thanks, it's a little hidden. I also had to configure the toolbar to always appear.
I also have the problem where it defaults to Google voice input and I can't see how to change it.
https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/issues/988
https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/issues/1547
leftascenter@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 179d
Yes.
The show microphone is in prefs/toolbar / select toolbar keys OR pinned toolbar keys.
dipcart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 179d
I'm not super tech literate. How do I go about joining that? I can't seem to find the option to turn on swipe typing or the sharing of said data.
Thanks!
leftascenter@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 179d
Turning swipe on is explained here (called glide typing)
https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard
Doing the training data is explained in the app after install as far as I remember
JayGray91@piefed.social · 1 pts · 179d
If you want to access the data gathering after the explanation, go to Settings > Gesture Data Gathering
@dipcart@lemmy.world
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 180d
I've been contributing. I use swipe text all the time and I love that I get to help with his project.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 179d
Hate the inconsistent autocorrect but aside from that, I use it on every phone I have and it’s really damn good
db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
They're all awful for autocorrect now.
artyom@piefed.social · 14 pts · 181d
Someone has never used an iPhone keyboard.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 181d
My last phone was an iPhone 13. One of the reasons I wanted to switch was because of how bad the keyboard was. Switching to gboard on iOS doesn't really help. It's a reskinned iOS keyboard so there's latency and lag issues.
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 181d
I bought one and used it for 3 months and then had to ditch it. The keyboard was a big reason. So bad. Unbelievable that they haven't fixed it...
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 180d
I kept mine for 4 years and honestly enjoyed it with the exception of the keyboard, the lack of FOSS apps, and the way the filesystem works. Switching to gboard afterwards and making the keys even bigger was amazing on an android.
hornedfiend@piefed.social · 3 pts · 180d
i recently went from an iPhone 12 Pro to a Fairphone 6, because reasons. However, good god... The iphone keyboard is atrocious. For anything other than English, it's like Apple think languages don't have words in them.
Worst experience I've ever had with a soft keyboard was iphone's. Never again.
Edit: words.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
What's wrong with it? Just curious.
artyom@piefed.social · 0 pts · 179d
Too small and not resizeable. No number row and no long-press layer, so you have to constantly switch between layers. Bad swipe detection. No customization. Etc.
These are all basic features Android keyboards had very early on.
Overspark@piefed.social · 4 pts · 181d
If you're using a default keyboard on almost any mobile device you're only hurting yourself. The Google one is annoyingly good, but every other keyboard I've encountered from mobile manufacturers (including Apple) is just terrible.
blujan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 181d
GBoard is so good, I have tried others but nothing comes close.
tb_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 180d
No other keyboard does the backspace swipe like gboard does. It is the reason I get hung up on whatever else I try.
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 180d
It's funny to me how different everyone is. I HATE that feature in Gboard. Maybe cause I suck at picking my finger all the way up during swipe texting 🤣
percent@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 181d
I stopped using Samsung many years ago because despite them being great at hardware, they suck at software.
tb_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
Apps notwithstanding; they did some great things to move the industry forward with OneUI. I still prefer it over the more native google Android on my Fairphone 6.
Also the samsung gallery app is amazing. Automatic tagging, great editing tools, all native to the phone without any google cloud necessary. Samsung Notes is solid. Migrating from one phone to another transferred all apps and their settings too, even F-droid ones, rather than having the play store simply redownload them.
But, despite all that, there was a reason I made the switch to Fairphone. Fuck samsung and their overall business practices.
tb_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
Also One Hand Operation+ and some of the other Good Lock apps.
Quick Cursor has been an okay replacement for OHO+
Also modes/routines. Tasker is not the same.
google does have a setting to automatically turn my WiFi on when I come home, but not off when I leave! samsung did.
Again, I do not regret making the switch. But damn, samsung does so much more than google Android.
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 180d
I had to send 3 phones in a row back to them because apparently they can't even plug the screen into the motherboard properly. That's why I gave up on them.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 181d
The Samsung keyboard is bad? I remember when it had a number row and we were all just like "whoa, this is what we asked for." I just use Gboard on mine (S10). If it ain't broke don't fix it.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 179d
The autocorrect is atrocious
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 179d
On Samsung? Or iPhone? Because on iPhone, the autocorrect is terrible and you can't really fix it. On Samsung, you can just get Gboard.
biscuit@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 180d
Google's Emoji Kitchen feature has me locked in to Gboard unfortunately
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 1 pts · 179d
To be fair, the Emoji Kitchen is pretty cool, Samsung's combined emoji feature isn't bad...Not as creative though as it could be, it's something they need to work on in order to foster better competition.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 180d
...kitchen?
Nani???
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
I've been using SwiftKey since before Microslop bought them, I think way back to my Nexus 7 tablet. It's... enshitefied in some ways with extra bloat, but I'm way too used to it at this point and I do love it's customization options.
shitescalates@midwest.social · 1 pts · 179d
FUTO keyboard is the first I've found to match it for features.
That said, isn't Samsung's keyboard made by Swiftkey?
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 1 pts · 179d
I don't think the default keyboard is all that bad after using the Apple default keyboard for over a year! I honestly find the default Samsung keyboard to be more accurate with autocorrect choices and spellings. I just hate the fact their LLM button cannot be removed from the keyboard layout, as all other buttons are editable.
I ended up using Typewise which is a fairly competent keyboard that you can set to be offline or without the smelly OpenAI integration (I missed that detail about them).