EDIT: They want users to help generate a dataset. You just play a game and email them the data when you are done.
I just did it, it was easy.
I love this idea so I just enabled the swipe library we have now (closed, boooo) and submitted my first set of test data. It worked just like in the video here. Neat!
If anyone sees this post and wants some more background on the keyboard and why it’s so handy, here you go:
https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tested-this-open-source-keyboard-for-a-month-and-it-replaced-gboard/NB: I am no shill just a happy user.
I like HeliBoard but the lack of a private swipe capability made it so clunky to use. I’ve been using FUTO Keyboard on Android which has the swipe feature but runs privately offline( no network permissions). The swipe accuracy isn’t perfect but its better than typing each word.
That’s really cool. There are a lot of FOSS that need data collection to be accurate and useful. I wish more of them accept donation of anon data. e.g. I’d love to donate my location data in exchange of accurate transit data.
Yeah absolutely for the transit data. All the wrong people already have my data, I would happily donate my data to the right people.
I’ve gotten used to Unexpected Keyboard for use with Termux, but I do agree the average folk need a keyboard for the people.
Heliboard is awesome, and once you get it installed its swipe works well. I’m off Android now, but I’d turn on telemetry for Heliboard.
Swipe in my experience does need work. I’m glad they’re doing this.
GBoard, before I switched, was like 95% accurate. I could trust it for blind typing. Heliboard with the google library is maybe 70% accurate and frustrating. “typing” in that last sentence was first “topping” the second “ripping” before I tapped it out.
To this day nobody is as good as Swype was. RIP.
There is no live telemetry, you just email them the data when you are done.
Aah he even said toodles at the end! I’m in
FUTO Keyboard might be willing to share data. Its another open Open source keyboard. License purchase optional but encouraged.
FUTO is not open source.
https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/
Uses their own license which forbids commercial use but the source is available and you’re free to modify and distribute it so…
Not proper FOSS and doesn’t meet the OSI definitions but colloquially speaking it looks pretty open to me.
If you modify it but then no one can use your modifications while at their work, then it’s not much use being able to see the code.
All this FUTO hate must be coming from big-FOSS so they can sell more free.
Just installed FUTO 5 minutes ago and already love it. One handed typing is fantastic.
HEY EVERYBODY, THIS GUY IS JERKING OFF
Yeah the more damning thing is the fascism. Anything from or in any way connected to Curtis Yarvin should get a wide berth. Rossman hooking his wagon to Yarvin is disappointing. But well within the norms for him sadly. (Kiwifarms association etc) I want to like him and support him for his right to repair work. But personally I can’t.
