Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any alternative to gboard with good hand writing recognition for Japanese… So if you need that functionality I think gboard is your only choice
You are handwriting Japanese symbols? I use the querty keyboard that converts romaji to hiragana/kanji. However I’m afraid this isn’t available on other keyboards either…
Yes, but only for the words I don’t know the reading of. For everything else I use the T9 flick keyboard.
I’ve treid a few, I don’t think any of them are as good as Swiftkey sadly. Swiftkey just works, even Gboard is nowhere near as good as it.
what’s something that makes SwiftKey better?
The predictive engine and ease of entering a prediction. Quite often I can just hit space a number of times to complete a message.
If you are a Florisboard user, there is a version with dynamic Material You themes here. It’s really good while we wait for the new versions with this official built-in
Anysoftkeyboard for me, it has good multilanguage support, lots of customization and even a swype option
What are the advantages of using this apps compared to the Android Keyboard (AOSP)?
For me, the key is FOSS. I was a keen fan of swiftkey, its word predictions worked great. Then it was bought by a company that I distrust, and when I was forced to choose another, I decided to try to ensure I’d never have to switch again.
A little while after I bailed on swiftkey, the news reports came that it was auto-filling random strangers’ credit card numbers; I felt vindicated.
For multilingual users, which keyboards you recommend? I type in 3 languages and need a a keyboard that can have all 3 languages enabled.
AnySoftKeyboard works great for me with two languaged😄
Thanks! Is it still being supported? I see on F-droid the last update was two years ago
Yeah, there is a beta channel you can sign up for. Still no much releases but it works very well for me 😄
Awesome, thanks. One last question if you don’t mind me asking. I was going to activate the keyboard on my Android phone and got a warning notification that if I did it, the keyboard wouldn’t be available to input before I unlocked me screen. But I need a keyboard to unlock my screen obviously. Could this be an issue?
