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If you search the Google Play Store for a keyboard, there are probably hundreds of different keyboards. Before Swiftkey and Gboard was available, I still remember using GOkeyboard with Go launcher on Android 2.3 gingerbread. I switched over to Swiftkey when Go Keyboard felt laggy. There was also a time where Swype is a popular keyboard for many users.
In 2020, what is the things I think about when using android keyboard?
Taking a break from Google.
Google already knows me more than I know myself. There are times when I don’t want Google to even know what I am typing. It is good to take a break from Google and hide stuff from Google. Swiftkey may be good, but I am not sure if Microsoft is another evil too. Because of this, there are times where I opted for Samsung keyboard on the basis that Samsung is the lesser evil as I do not see the need for them to mine keystroke data. It seemed to be a common norm that Gboard is a good keyboard.
Keyboards also has a built-in feature for incognito mode. Some of this even auto toggle incognito mode when you opens the incognito browser in the mainstream browser. However, there is a slight hesitation for me to use GBoard if I needs to be incognito mode. It feels that Google will anonymous the keystroke information and send the data back to its server. Hence, I use Swiftkey if I do not want my keystroke to be captured as I feel slightly safer with Microsoft than Google.
There is a keyboard for that situation
Over the years, there are also keyboards that are developed for different purposes. Some of these purposes include writing articles, coding, and private keyboard.
For writing articles, I tend to choose Grammarly keyboard. Grammarly seemed to do a better job compared to swiftkey and Gboard when editing articles. However, I do think that Grammarly sends all the keystroke over to…
