Unexpected Keyboard

I used to have a phone with a physical keyboard that had a ctrl key. I can&#x27;t live without ctrl-z, ctrl-v, etc. This keyboard made it possible to go to a fully-touchscreen phone without being too miserable!<p>(Although some level of misery is hard to get out of with only a touchscreen.)<p>I have used this keyboard for over a year now I think and it&#x27;s really good.

Interesting. I&#x27;ve been using the Hacker&#x27;s Keyboard with Termux, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to have received any updates in a long time. (I&#x27;m fine with programs being considered complete, but I also realize that Android is unfortunately a moving target.)<p>Has anyone used both and could compare them?

Is there a keyboard that uses GPT-2 or some other such LLM to predict what I&#x27;m trying to write? SwiftKey is amazing because I can tap in the general vicinity of keys and it always writes the right thing, but it&#x27;s fairly abandoned with a few perplexing bugs.<p>I&#x27;d love to find a maintained keyboard that can predict as well as SwiftKey, and has all the other &quot;simple&quot; niceties SwiftKey has on Android (second layer with long press, configurable durations, customizable keys, emoji search, etc).

Great idea to allow multiple symbols per key, though it&#x27;s not worth losing swipe over, so these should be behind a longer key press (hold for .5 sec then swipe to the corner ) or a double tap Is they any keyboard that combines those and is also customizable?<p>The numbers should also be in a numpad layout, unfortunately common mistake even in custom keyboards<p>Also some keys in good central positions like sdf are surprising empty, could reduce the overload of other keys by shifting some symbols there<p>Wonder how convenient corner gestures are vs pure horizontal&#x2F;vertical

See MessagEase for a similar keyboard (not programmer-focused) with less keys but letting you use the swiping motion to type ordinary — great for fat-fingered people.

Calculator++ is lovely, i like how it works. These swiping buttons especially usefull on small-ish screens.<p>P.S. tried keyboard, should work wery well with termux. Did not figure out how to swith to next language. Custom keys, yay!

I use keyboard with similar concept as this for more than 10 years. It uses a 3 by 3 key with additional column for control so like an old phone but swipe based. I like it because I can use 1 hand to write on phone. The application called MessageEase[0] before they go subscription based and now I use Thumb-Key[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exideas.com&#x2F;ME&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exideas.com&#x2F;ME&#x2F;</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dessalines&#x2F;thumb-key">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dessalines&#x2F;thumb-key</a>

I&#x27;ve been using this for a couple years now and it&#x27;s been fantastic. Just the Compose Key support alone is a godsend. The swiping takes some getting used to, but with practice it now feels second-nature.

This was...unexpected...<p>Unexpectedly good. I am definitely going to relearn typing on my phone just to use this.

I have been using this for a few years now. Has all the keys I could want. Actually makes ssh-ing from termux not a bad experience.<p>My mom (not a programmer) uses it as well because she is able to type much faster with the swiping than with a regular touch keyboard.

Does anyone else remember the &quot;TouchPal&quot; keyboard on Windows Mobile?<p>It was similar in some ways.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i0.wp.com&#x2F;farm3.static.flickr.com&#x2F;2142&#x2F;1622925926_3ae8606681_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i0.wp.com&#x2F;farm3.static.flickr.com&#x2F;2142&#x2F;1622925926_3a...</a><p>QW and a symbol were all on one key in a T shaped layout - Q top left, W top right, symbol below, you could just hit the key as-is and let predictive text&#x2F;auto-correct do it&#x27;s thing (badly, at the time).<p>The more interesting way to use it was to swipe on the key in the direction of the letter&#x2F;symbol you wanted.<p>It was really quite good, and a shame it never caught on.

Just installed it now. I think it&#x27;s missing the &#x27;2 spaces for period-and-space&#x27; feature but it seems pretty nice other than that! (I guess that makes sense for a programming keyboard though.)

I&#x27;m desperate for an Android keyboard! I need to type English, Czech, and Polish. We live in the age of LLMs, they not only know the words, they know how to use them together! Shocking!<p>I&#x27;d like to use glide typing (slide finger to type). Yet all the Android keyboards I&#x27;ve tried (GBoard and Microsoft SwifKey) can&#x27;t hint basic forms of words an elementary school child would know.<p>Wrt Unexpected Keyboard, I find it tedious to type all letters separately on a touchscreen. Don&#x27;t you?<p>Help me!

Thanks this seems very good. Being able to flick #! off the &#x27;e&#x27; is nice. The position of . and , is a bit weird on the left of the keybord. But i do like the curser control and brackets usage. There is some buggy activity with capitals appearing eg ttt55555%%%%%TTT% randomly. And it misses autocomplete and auto capitalisation for general usec

I literally downloaded last week this keyboard to do the Advent of Code on the go

This is similar to how Japanese use a 3x4 flick but the difference is that 1 word is typically 3-6 syllables where Latin is double the amount, also triple the amount of words per sentence.

This is very similar to Japanese &quot;flick&quot; input:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BhD6r8NKlmY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BhD6r8NKlmY</a>

It&#x27;s great, just <i>NEEDS</i> one thing:<p>Configuration export&#x2F;import.

I just installed it. And thus far: it makes sense. I need to get used to this one. Weird thing is: I don&#x27;t mis the autocorrect other keyboards usually have.

Nothing beats the privacy-oriented FUTO keyboard for me.

I just installed it...mind blown. Thank you for posting this.<p>Super easy to use... usual spelling errors are gone... would need a multilingual&#x2F;serbian keyboard :) as well

Awesome stuff! I used to use Hackers Keyboard (up until … now!) but it’s not OSS, hasnt been updated, and i use the swipe even there.<p>Thanks for sharing!<p>[edit]<p>Even more for making!

Thank you for posting, this is game changer, I have quite an old phone and this keyboard help me use it less unbearable

Very innovative but it seems to require a level of precision that I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve achieved on a phone keyboard.

Very nice keyboard. It would be so awesome if auto-complete and auto-correct would be added as optional features.

iOS app Textastic features a similar swipe-to-key-corner feature.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.textasticapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.textasticapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s wonderful. There&#x27;s also a macOS version.

I&#x27;ve been unsatisfied with Heliboard, so I might give this a try

ThumbKey inspired Querty, that&#x27;s cool I guess.

Any keyboard with an undo button?

now I can use this and try to be like this guy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42374823">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42374823</a>

I love the small keyboard

Using it since <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32658104">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32658104</a><p>What doesn&#x27;t work:<p>1. Ctrl&#x2F;Alt isn&#x27;t passed to RDP session in the official MS app.<p>1. Sometimes number input moves the decimal to a swipe and this is kinda... dumb.<p>It&#x27;s not as fast as Hacker&#x27;s Keyboard but overall it works good and I even did wrote some small things on it.<p>I replaced all HK with UK on all my phones and one tablet.<p>Can recommend.

Sad that a keyboard even needs to say that it&#x27;s &quot;privacy-conscious.&quot; What a world we&#x27;ve built, where one might reasonably worry that their keyboard _isn&#x27;t_ private.