AnySoftKeyboard

AnySoftKeyboard

About this app

Any Soft Keyboard is an open-source, on-screen keyboard with multiple languages support with emphasis on privacy.
This is one of the most customizable keyboards available.

To activate: Launch 'AnySoftKeyboard Settings' App, and follow the instructions.

Main features:
* Multi languages keyboard support via external packages.
* Completion dictionaries for multiple languages.
* Also completes your typed words from you contacts names (Android 2.0+)!
* And, learns your typing behavior to provide next-word prediction.
* Multi-Touch support (as in, pressing SHIFT along with other characters).
* Extension keyboard (swipe your finger all the way up out of the keyboard).
* Voice Input support (Android 2.2+).
* Compact/Phablet Mode.
* Gesture support:
** Experimental Gesture-Typing (enable in the Settings app).
** Swipe left or right to switch layouts.
** Swipe up to shift.
** Swipe down to close the keyboard.
* Theme support (comes with a few built-in skins, and more available in Play Store).
* Night Mode: Quiet, Dark keyboard at night time (enable in the Settings app).
* Power-Saving Mode: No vibrations, sound, suggestions and a dark theme (enable in the Settings app).
* Build-in user dictionary words editor.
* Build-in abbreviations dictionary: create shortcuts for words and sentences.
* Utility keyboard (swipe up from space-bar):
** Clipboard actions copy, paste, select-all, select selectively (long-press select and use arrow keys).
** Voice input
** Arrows
* And many more features!

Support at: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard

Ratings and reviews

Beautiful, but I am so confused. This thing goes deep! The text editing navigation keyboard has a button you drag up to access numbers & punctuation but it ONLY inserts a ! when you touch ANY symbol. And what is the control key for?? Swipe LEFT or RIGHT to switch from letters to numbers and punctuation. There's also an option "space switches keyboards", but it doesn't do anything but insert a space. So I don't know what they mean by that.

Overall im pleased with this keyboard. Its great to get away from Google tracking. But the one issue that I cant seem to get past is the tiny spacebar. I've looked everywhere in the settings and tweaks for a fix but see nothing and its annoying enough to consider a different keyboard. The period to the right of the spacebar is so close that when I really get typing, and then look back at all that I've written, instead of a space between words, its a period.like.this. Makes quick typing difficult

Very good with a couple knitpicks. Word prediction/correction needs some work and are worse than gboard and swiftkey. For example, if I accidentally hit v or b instead of spacebar, it doesn't have a correction of two words. Wish I could have the arrows (w/ home & end) on any layout without needing to swipe up. It'd be nice if I could add to the included 2byte ASCII kaomojis (custom input) since ones I regularly use aren't listed.

What's new

* Minimum Android version is 4.0.3 (ICS, API level 15).
* Basic support for OS field auto-fill.
* Better vibration control for newer OS versions.
* Fixes around permission requests.
* Fixes for colorized nav-bar.
* A few small gesture-typing fixes.
* Other bug fixes.
* Updated translations from the community.

More here: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/milestone/93