Is anyone working on a PR for this ? @dngray I believe Tool Suggestions will be a more appropriate label, as this is NOT a brand new section. (I did the modification myself since I seem to have now the appropriate level, hope that’s fine)>
I use Unexpected Keyboard and FUTO Voice.
Unexpected Keyboard is designed to increase your typing efficiency by allowing you to type more characters by swiping the keys towards the corners.
Meanwhile, FUTO Voice, as others has mentioned, is a privacy-preserving voice input app, which is incredibly accurate at English-244 model (quite slow, but more accurate than Google’s Voice Input).
Not presently and it’s not an area I know much about as I just use the default keyboard.
Yes I have been a fan of Futo since Louis Rossman recommended it
I think he works on the project
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Found this to be really interesting:
One might alternatively desire for apps at large to not be able to access the Internet at all. Instead of an UNSAFE_INTERNET permission, what about introducing
an INTERNET permission to govern all Internet socket access, similar to the “Full
Access” permission which iOS already applies to keyboard apps? Android devices
in fact already have such a permission that apps must request to use Internet
(AF_INET) sockets, but it is not a permission that is exposed to ordinary users
either in the Google Play Store or through any stock Android user interface, and it
is automatically granted when installing an app. Unfortunately, given all of the
interprocess communication (IPC) vehicles on modern smart devices, restricting
Internet socket access may not guarantee that the app could not communicate
over the Internet (e.g., through Google Play services). GrapheneOS, an open source
Android-based operating system, implements a NETWORK permission. However,
denying this permission can lead to surprising results where apps can still communicate with the Internet via IPC with other apps. As such, we recommend that
both the developers of Android and iOS work toward a meaningful INTERNET
permission that would adequately inform users of whether an app communicates
over the Internet.
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Source ?
NetGuard only blocks direct access. INTERNET permission on GrapheneOS and DivestOS blocks both direct and indirect access to the internet without any leaks whatsoever.
well (as linked above),
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Communication between apps is a different story, but that is currently being worked on too. A little teaser:
I think it’s safe to assume that most proprietary apps use IPC to communicate with Google Play Services or with their own apps, like Facebook with Instagram. I like to separate the obvious ones into different user profiles until new IPC scopes come out.
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Is it me or the dev included pictures for IOS on play store?
Here are my recommendations:
Fossify Keyboard - Simple and open-source offline keyboard with emojis
Simple Keyboard - Simply keyboard and nothing more
Coming from iOS, the idea of “installing a keyboard” is very foreign to me (just like non-native apps for phone or text messages). On GOS, is there value in using a non-native keyboard? I have been using the native one and, while not as good as on iOS, for predictions, it seems to fairly do the job. Anything significantly better?
There is a value of additional features if not then the ability to customize it to your comfort.
It’s why I use say Heliboard on one of my user profiles and Gboard with network cut on some others.
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