Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people’s writing. So what’s worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    There’s no comparison to GBoard. I’ve tried them all. GBoard is good at everything but specifically it is by far and away the best at text prediction and autocorrect.

    Next best is FUTO keyboard.

    • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      Gboard never reached the level at which Swiftkey was at dual-language typing, at least for me. I’m Romanian native speaker and also use a lot of English. With Swiftkey I had almost no problems. With gboard I had to switch languages to make them work.

      I’m surprised at how good Heliboard became lately at exactly this scenario. I have Romanian-English set and it works great.

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        41 minutes ago

        I only speak 1 language so I’ll defer to your expertise in that regard.

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      8 hours ago

      I find GBoard autoincorrect to be as bad as any other. I stopped using it because of that, and I’ve been on Android since 2009

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        8 hours ago

        Maybe you should try again, it’s been improved over the last 15 years.