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

Not bad at all, I see potential. There are a couple issues. I will outline them in the hope that someone will listen. (Please note: people are looking for alternatives to swiftkey and gboard, get it right and it could be a winner.) 1. "hide language button" - I still see "English" button on the screen when typing. not everyone needs more than one language. 2. Switching between Letters/Numbers/Symbols, the button to change to the next layout moves/changes. its daft, why not have a button that stays and always lets you switch between letters/numbers/symbols? (bottom left corner is my suggestion) it is not intuative as it is. 3. Allow people to set a picture as the back ground. we all like personalisation. I like how your keyboard works, but it is a work in progress at the moment, not ready to be a replacement.

Good to find a keyboard that doesn't track you, especially on an ad-free, donation tariff. For some reason it doesn't allow me to save suggested words (won't allow me to confirm it). Would be good to have more punctuation on the main keyboard (hyphens). And the beta swipe function hasa few bugs, like occasionally forgetting to adda space, and being overly-picky with your accuracy. Going to give ita while to get used to, but may have to find another if these bugs aren't ironed out soon.

Ironically, the swipe keyboard will NOT recognise the word "swipe", and recognition can be a little ropey with other words. It also doesn't do contractions (like "doesn't") but what's really annoying is when correcting a wrong swiped word the backspace should delete the whole word instead of having to delete each letter or holding down the backspace. Everything else works fine though.

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