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Quoting their description:

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

Excerpts from the Changelog:

What's Changed

This release also marks an important developer milestone, as its release commit is the 2500th commit on the main brach :tada:

Full Changelog: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/compare/v0.5.0-beta01...v0.5.0-beta02

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

How does this compare to Heliboard or FUTO?

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I use heliboard and briefly florisboard months ago.

biggest difference back then is florisboard doesn't have swipe typing. functionally, like the clipboard, text editing, etc., they are on par IIRC. I like the esthetic and looks on florisboard a lot better but swipe typing is more important to me.

of note on heliboard's clipboard, you can set a timer to clear the clipboard.

if it's important to you, you can't search in heliboard's emoji keyboard.

I also used FUTO for a while, but I dont really remember much why I disliked it vs heliboard.

as I finished typing all these, I realized you might be a heliboard user. I'll just leave it up for others :P

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used it about a year ago and there was no autocorrect, much less multi-language autocorrect. Do you know if it has changed by now?

[–] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Using florisboard to type this, swype typing and autocorrect are coming in a future release. Seems like it requires a substantial refactoring. Currently gestures can be mapped to various functions like hiding the keyboard or uppercase.

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