FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

New update includes:

  • Major rework of emoji suggestions
  • Major rework of emoji history
  • Rework inline autofill suggestions from password managers
  • handful of other changes listed in the link above
  • cumEnglish
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    I was definitely more excited for this project when they didn’t randomly abandon it for over a year and a half unannounced. Also spell check is still non-functional. That feature seems like a requirement, otherwise it’d be an amazing keyboard. In fact, I’d say it would be the best.

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      I think that’s on the development plate for 0.5 if I understand correctly.

      Sadly AnysoftKeyboard hasn’t seen a release in some time either. Still using it for now, though.

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      I agree. I dropped it recently for a non-FOSS alternative because I just can’t deal with the lack of predictive text/autocorrect

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        HeliBoard is a good foss option that has autocorrect and stuff! You can also give it swipe typing by supplying your own proprietary blob, so that’s neat. Better than using a non-foss keyboard!

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          I’d try Heiboard again, but it didn’t have built-in layout options, nor a clearly communicated way to get them last I tried it.

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          I’ve used HeliBoard for a while before going back to GBoard, unfortunately. It’s a decent keyboard but I’m a swipe feature user and prediction plus autocorrect was very bad for me using it. I used FlorisBoard for a while also and it has more features,but no swipe support at all,plus only English support.

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      I’m still excited. I’ve probably used it long enough to simply not miss autocorrect. And it does multilingual bit very well!