Fine, later will work too. Wouldn’t consider it first priority
I just started using /e/ on my fairphone, coming from Ubuntu Touch world.
I must say that the lack of emoji in the keyboard is frustrating. I do use them a lot.
As I am completly new to android-like apps (never had an android before, just bought the faiphone to install /e/) maybe I’m just missing a standard conf to add them to the keyboard, but for now it seems like a big miss…
You can see the emoji’s …on the keyboard lower right side there is a curved arrow inside a circle - press on it for a couple of seconds and it should open up the emojis.
Agree that It should have been a bit more visible though.
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Oh thank you ! I’d never imagined it was on the alternate of the “enter” bouton 
As a FOSS keyboard, I wanted to suggest Hacker’s keyboard which his a bit more advanced than any traditional ones.
Sadly, Out of this one and AnySoftKeyboatd, I think Simple Keyboard is the only one with Korean keyboard support, isn’t it ?
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I quite like the default keyboard in Lineage, which has swipe. I noticed swipe for this keyboard isn’t available for /e/ even though it is still in the manual.
A keyboard with swipe would certainly be nice to have. Never needed dual language but I could certainly see the advante of having that as a feature. dedicated emoji key as well? 
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jep! it has that
I’ll check again but I don’t think swipe was working on it. Was available as an option within the keyboard settings, but certainly didn’t work.
Hi all,
I’m the lucky owner of a brand new F/e/rphone3 and I’m the happiest man alive.
I installed OpenBoard which performes fine, it does what it should do. FOSS, no trackers, no ridiculous permissions.
But I really miss typing with the slide of a finger. Are there any keyboards (preferably FOSS) with this functionality besides gboard?
Thx
Hi, yes, I believe anysoftkeyboard should support this.
Thank you.
I will take a look at that. 
I’m giving it a try at this moment and so far I like it.
For me it does what I was used to with gboard.
I can slide with my finger and it makes suggestions. And I can easily switch languages.
For former gboard users new to /e/:
Installed the base anysoftkeyboard and searched the store again for my language-pack. Turned on the keyboard in the keyboard settings and turned the others off.
In the anysoftkeyboard app under ‘gestures’ I turned on ‘Enable gesture-typing [BETA]’
And somewhere down the line the phone needed a restart.
As far as I could see there aren’t any trackers used and there are no strange permissions needed by this software. But please correct me if I’m wrong.
And now I will give it a try.
Quite welcome! I’m happy if it was helpful for you!
I’m currently using AnySoftKeyboard to write this message by swifting. It is not that bad but nothing compared to gboard especially using different languages…
I’m addressing to you guys with knowledge of trackers and logs going out: what about using gboard but cutting any access to internet thanks to netguard? Could we consider it as a good temp solution until /e/ comes with a better keyboard?
You can even cut internet access of gboard in settings->apps->gboard->Data Usage (disable Wi-Fi data, Cellular data and VPN data).
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Thanks, I did not know it was as straightforward. I’ve tried a bit and maybe because I blocked the internet access to Gboard, the result of swiping wasn’t as convincing as it was when I used to be on Android stock on my Nexus…
Has anyone tried to use Gboard, cutting internet access? What about the result?
I switched back to AnySoftKeyboard.
I don’t know if the feature wasn’t available because the thread is old, or you didn’t know because it’s hidden, but you can have suggestions / autocorrections for multiple language at the same time without compiling anything, it’s just kinda hidden.
On the website, they say
Automatic correction can be customized, or turned off entirely. External packages include word lists that can be freely mixed. You can use a French layout and get suggestions for German and Russian!
I haven’t found how to, so I asked how to do that on GitHub and I’m explaining how, with the website’s example.
- Install AnySoftKeyboard
- Install the language packs you want. With the example provided by the website, you would install install French German and Russian packs.
- Choose your layout: go to language → enable keyboards and languages, and pick your keyboard. With the example provided by the website, it would be French layout.
- Go to somewhere you can type so that you can see the keyboard, long press enter and pick “Override default dictionary”
- Choose your languages for suggestions / autocorrections. With the example provided by the website, it would be Russian and German.
And now you can enjoy being corrected for German and russian while having a French layout!
Also if you don’t like the autocorrect, you can disable it or make it less aggressive in Language → Configure correction behavior and other dictionaries → Auto-select suggestion aggressiveness.
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I’ve used it that way for months and it’s working (although I can’t compare to using it with internet access enabled).
I’ve tried AnySoftKeyboard months ago and just now again and for me it doesn’t work. It much too often proposes a wrong word (not fitting the swiped keys).
Thanks! i still use this keyboard, and did not know this feature. Now i can use a bigger list. I like this keyboard, but the settings drive me crazy sometimes.
Actually, the swiping feature does not workin French or Spanish on Gboard on my OP6. It only suggests English words…
Does someone use the swiping gesture in another language than English? I’ve tried to delete cache and data + force the app to stop + delete all the other keyboards (except the native one of course) then reboot but it just does not work.
Same with Swift by Microsoft. I wish AnySoftKeyboard was better 
Thanks for your feedbacks