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

It's OK. So far the best alternative I've found for privacy. Swype input still needs some tweaking, keyboard language randomly changes from what I had it set at. Autocorrect is somewhat limited and sometimes doesn't know what I mean when I'm only one letter away from a word and when you go back to correct a word, you have to watch because ot only looks at the part you just fixed instead of the whole word and tries to correct that.

It seems the original developer of this keyboard is no longer? I realize the keyboard is open source and all but it is a bit disappointing that it hasn't seen an update since almost six months or more ago. The colored navigation bar hasn't worked correctly ever since Android 11. Not a complete deal breaker but it definitely makes the keyboard feel more in sync with the device without the ugly black bar on the bottom.

The spacebar was super tiny, which I didn't like, and the long press options made no sense to me. Not bad, just not what I'm used to and I didn't want to spend that much time relearning a keyboard layout. The theming options are (some form of) dark / white or an auto theme with your app that might be a truly obnoxious color. But otherwise I liked how you could customize the strength of the feedback, and the rest of the options looked interesting too

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