I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type “our” and it changes to “out”, I recently typed “purpose” and it changed it to “purple”. Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

  • @ParadachshundOP
    2•1 month ago

    Does it have the things I called out as liking about Gboard?

    • Dymonika
      5•1 month ago

      It’s insanely customizable; you can change all of the special characters to be anything else, as well as their positions.

      • @ParadachshundOP
        3•1 month ago

        Nice. That’s actually even more customizable than I need. How does it do with the correcting correctly spelled words thing?

        • fmstratEnglish
          6•1 month ago

          I had the same dilemma. Switched to HB and added in FUTO voice to replace Googles voice to text. SO doesn’t like that it doesn’t learn like Swiftkey does, but I like it because you can set it’s aggressiveness of the autocorrect.

          • @ParadachshundOP
            2•1 month ago

            I’ll have to check this one out I think. Lots of people in here recommending it. I’m guessing it’s not on Google play?

            • fmstratEnglish
              2•1 month ago

              I install directly from the developer’s GitHub using Obtainium. However F-Droid is probably the more common method.

              • @ParadachshundOP
                1•1 month ago

                Is Fdroid like a third party app store app or something? I see people talk about it a lot on here but I don’t know what it is.

                • fmstratEnglish
                  2•1 month ago

                  That’s exactly right. It’s a third party app store for free and open source software.

      • Wild Bill
        1•1 month ago

        How do you change the positions of letters and characters?

        • fmstratEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          I dont think you can do letters, but under advanced settings you can edit the JSON config for positioning of everything else. Perhaps I’m wrong on letters and just haven’t seen it.