I have been using AnySoft, but its so buggy at this point, its effectively unusable. Judging by the github, its been in this state for at least a year now. I tried to downgrade to an older version in the hopes of fixing it, but couldn’t get it to install. Is there any better options?
FlorisBoard and HeliBoatd. Both available in F-Droid. Both are excellent. I lean toward HeliBoard but will switch between them occasionally.
I have been using heliboard, but I’m forced to use teams, so I have to keep switching back. The swipe gestures require much more precision than Gboard.
I use HeliBoard with Teams. What problem are you having?
I believe my org has restricted what keyboards I can use, if you check my other reply here.
FYI - You can add swiping libraries to Heliboard very easily.
I did add one and it’s made things much better. What I’m saying is that it has much tighter tolerances. Also, I keep catching backspace when I begin words with m, and there is no immediate undo option after I erase half my typing.
It’s mostly the fact that I’m swipe lazily, and Gboard does a lot of heavy lifting translating my languid gestures into coherent speech. Bonus points for the fact that it knows I misspelled something and put the correct spelling in there. This means that I could do better if I paid more attention to what I was doing.
The real hurt IMO is being forced back into Gboard from teams.
I’m not sure I follow you regarding Teams: Heliboard works fine in mine? I have Gboard completely disabled on my phone and it doesn’t even show up as an option in my Teams client on Android 16. What’s happening on your phone? It just doesn’t allow you to select it as an input when you’re using Teams?
Here is what I am seeing. I can select Samsung keyboard and gboard, but it appears that Heliboard is not on an approved list.
I’m not in an influential position in my company, but I was directed to someone to discuss it. My guess is that there may have been a compromise using a keyboard app in the past and this is their mitigation.
Oooh, ok, that looks like a policy setting your employer has. Looks like you might have to get them to make an exception. It works fine on my Pixel 8 and where I work but they may not have the inputs locked down.
There might be another way around it if they refuse to allow Heliboard, but if it’s a company issued device, it’s not worth getting in trouble over.
Well, it’s my phone, so I feel I ought to be using whatever keyboards I want. My guess is my org isn’t differentiating between company assets and employee property.
So, the Teams instance you’re connecting to and all of the data therein is owned by the company you work for: Their IT/security team or teams are still obligated to protect that data and allowing the use of any and every app could potentially cause problems or exfil proprietary company data.
Whether the phone is owned by you or them is irrelevant, the data is still compromised either way, so I doubt they enacted that policy by mistake, however, you may be able to talk them into adding more options to their allow list.