Is there an Android keyboard where you control the sursor with the spacebar like on iOS?
- Unexpected Keyboard - also has a vertical cursor slide key.
- Thumb-Key - optional setting. Also works intuitively for text deletion on backspace. Text selection too but that’s buggy.
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Pretty sure most all of them do that?
Why is there so much removed in these comments?
Oh shit is Lemmy (at this instance) going the way of reddit? I don’t like mods much at all. Shouldn’t I decide what to read or not?
Unless is was completely off topic or something horrible I guess.
What I came back to find out…
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This is on pretty much all keyboards. It’s on the standard G Board even. Look into the settings of whatever keyboard you’re already using, it’s likely just turned off.
HeliBoard let’s you move the cursor by swiping on the space bar. Is that what iOS does?
Thanks, that’s exactly what I’m looking for
Just a heads up, glide typing requires loading a closed source library in Heliboard. Instructions are in the readme and it’s pretty straightforward, but it’s something to be aware of.
Why have we had to live without an open source version for so long?
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I’m not sure what glide typing is but I installed the keyboard and I can move the cursor with the spacebar.
Also known as gesture typing or swype, typing by dragging your finger for each word rather than tapping each letter.
Fossify Keyboard can do it
This is a very basic feature, you have a lot of options to choose from like the other comments have suggested. I use Heliboard personally with glide typing.
FlorisBoard is a good option, very customizable too https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
I also use that, mainly because of the Gboard theme (called FloriStyle). Makes it kinda like Gboard except open source and not from Google, which is exactly what I wanted. It has basically the same functions (except for typing suggestions, that’s still being worked ob) but I’m pretty sure it’s more customizable, even aside from the themes.
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This is a stock Samsung Keyboard feature
They want an Open Source app…
Works just fine in Gboard too.
unexpected keyboard also does this, as well as a dedicated arrow keys button. it’s also open source and on both fdroid and play store.
