Hoping the Foss community can help me explain why it seems keyboards like AnySoftKeyboard haven’t been updated for years. Google play - Nov 2021 F-Droid - Jan 2022

The GitHub still seems quite active with changes being made 3 days ago. Is there a reason these aren’t pushed to the standard distribution channels? I also looked at FlorisBoard and it seemed to show a similar pattern.

Are there any other FOSS keyboards people can recommend for Android?

  • ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I can recommend OpenBoard. Its open source and available on F-Droid or Google/Aurora. It doesn’t request Network permissions. As far as updates: it hasn’t been updated in 17 months. Its not updated extremely frequently, but it’s definitely not abandoned. It works great and I don’t see anything it needs added or fixed in my experience.

    • PersonalDevKit@aussie.zoneOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      This looks much like much more what I was looking for. Like a Foss replacement for the android keyboard, will keep playing with it to see how it goes. Thanks