SwiftKey for swipe texting
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Unexpected Keyboard
https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
Available on F-Droid
You can pretty much configure the whole layout. Not sure about gif support though.
Gboard. I want handwriting for Chinese and afaik no foss keyboard has that.
I use Fleksy, probably not as popular because it doesn't have swype typing but I find the autocorrect works really well, and it's easy to change the word if you don't like what it corrected to by swiping up or down to different options, and you can swipe left to delete words. Built in gif support too, and there's an extension to make the number row always show.
Nice! That sounds pretty great (I don't use swipe typing at all so no loss there). When you delete a word from correction, is it only deleting it in that exact situation (our to out), or is it deleting out from the dictionary entirely? Hoping it's the former and that might be exactly what I'm looking for if so.
Sorry, to clarify, swiping left is like backspace a word, if I swiped after now it'd delete "now", then "after" if I did it again. If you typed our and it changed to out, you could swipe up and it'd revert back to our.
You can add or remove words from the dictionary by opening the app separately too, but most settings are accessed from the keyboard.
Swift key with auto correct cranked to 11. Haven't found any other keyboard yet that lets me smash any nearby keys and have it fix it just fine.
Gboard but with network permissions turned off. Works great. Haven't had any issues with an autosuggest and swiping. I don't use autocorrect.
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RIP TouchPal
Gboard now (yes it sucks it sends data to Google but it's the best keyboard and works great on my zFlip cover screen)
While I normally use whatever the default keyboard app is, I do sometimes use Unexpected Keyboard. It doesn't have auto-correct but it has more keys available than even normal keyboards do. It may take some getting used to though as, for example, to use the "alts" for each key, you have to swipe in that direction. So for example if you wanted to press "Esc" with the default settings, you'd press q and swipe diagonally down and to the right.
For customization, I don't know if you can add images or gifs but there is some visual options and you have pretty much full control over the layout of the keyboard and what keys it has.