Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people’s writing. So what’s worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    I just added it to fdroid… So that is nice

    So I installed futo, I’m typing this edit using it.

    The swiping is a little more precise, requiring a bit more precision on my part.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      The swiping needs to require less precision IMO. There’s a training thing on FUTO’s website somewhere that will give you a string of words to swipe type (accessible only via mobile). That’s how they improve the swipe feature overall, but I think some people may have been too careful with it. Be sloppy, be imprecise, make it learn how normal people swipe.

      Personally, I prefer a bit of sloppiness when it comes to swiping anyway - because if I wanted precision, I would actually type the words. GBoard is pretty good at figuring out that swiping s m w or a m s was probably supposed to be “and”; and other such words that aren’t super accurate when swiped. FUTO keyboard is not very good at that, at least at first haha.