I can touch type with a physical keyboard, which helps somewhat with trying to type on smartphone virtual keyboards, but I still find myself way clumsier and error-prone on them when I try to touch tap-type on them.

For the most part I’ve worked around this via swipe/gesture-typing on virtual keyboards, but even that method is error-prone. So, I’d like to try to learn to tap-type similar to how I know how to touch type, but many resources I find are for physical keyboards instead, so…Any help here?

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      11 months ago

      Looks nice. Anyone good advice which layout to choose to type 60% German and 40% english? There are several german ones available.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        3·
        11 months ago

        I use the deutsch symbols messageease layout as it’s the only German layout with symbols on the main keyboard. There’s also deutsch multilingual thumbkey if you’re fine with {``^ etc. being on the numpad.

      • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
        3·
        11 months ago

        No clue, sorry. Looking at the list, I’d go with “multilingual thumb-key” or just thumb-key. Messageease is the proprietary keyboard thumb key is based on, and I think more thought has been put into making even more optimized layouts for thumbkey, so I’d guess the messageease one is a bit outdated, and I think there might be a two hand mode that “type-split” is for but idk

    • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      OK, what if I just care for privacy and I’m happy with the QWERTY layout?

      I’d love to ditch Gboard, but it has my native language in it, plus word underline when misspelling words. I don’t use predictive text or anything like that, just underline (I hate predictive text, it messes up my train of thought).

      Alternatives?

            • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Have no idea. I just know that Swift only does word suggestion, couldn’t find an option to just underline words.

          • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’ve not tried Florisboard yet, but OpenBoard doesn’t have it (neither in the main build nor forks from what I can tell) and nor is it available in AnySoftKeyboard’s default install, but it’s highly customizable so it may be an option there.

            That said, isn’t spellcheck underlining more frequently in the apps you’re typing into rather than the virtual keyboard? Tbh I hadn’t ever noticed it in Gboard before, but I haven’t used it in a little while (though in looking into its settings I see it now, I guess I thought it’d been the other apps instead the whole time).

            • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              That said, isn’t spellcheck underlining more frequently in the apps you’re typing into rather than the virtual keyboard?

              That is something that has always puzzled me, and yes, I believe you’re right.

              But, the confusing part for me is, Gboard has a spellcheck option, and if I disable it, it doesn’t underline words when typing (in apps that normally check spelling).

              But, let’s take Jerboa for example. It doesn’t work in Jerboa. No matter if enabled or disabled, there is no spellcheck in Jerboa, period.

              And that is why things are confusing. Is it the apps that do the spellcheck or the keyboard 🤔.

              For me, it would be logical if the keyboard does it (since it’s software, you can easilly add this option), just reports back to the software whether it should underline the word or not. But I could be wrong about this since I’m not a dev.

          • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            11 months ago

            You can enable spell check underline even for keyboards that don’t have it, by changing which app it uses for spell checker specifically. In my case it’s under Android settings >> System >> Languages & input >> Spell checker (under the Tools category), It might be different on your phone, in that case I guess you can just search for “Spell checker” and then u can use Gboard for spell checking for example.

            • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              That’s just it. It’s set to Gboard spell checker, but it doesn’t work in Jerboa.

              • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                11 months ago

                Yeah, I just tested it in Jerboa…I guess in some apps it just doesn’t work, probably depending on how the text box is implemented in the app or something, I’m not sure.
                I didn’t have trouble with it so far because it has been working for all the apps that I use.

                federation on my lemmy instance is broken, so this message will probably arrive very late

                • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  That is what puzzled me as well. It litelarly works in every other app, except Jerboa. In have no idea why, and I have asked this same question a few times here on Lemmy, but no one seems to know the answer.