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On Android? Anysoft keyboard.
It's the best of the software keyboards available in F-Droid for general use in my opinion. It's FOSS, fairly-configuable (though I'd like to have a "macro board" where I could, in-app, assign arbitrary characters or text snippets to keyboards). It supports "splitting" the keyboard, which is nice on a tablet.
But it has some pretty substantial issues.
There's some bug it has, maybe a race condition, maybe multiple. On a slower, MediaTek-based Android device, I've seen it "miss" letters. Recently, on a faster one, I've seen it insert duplicate text when editing the middle of a word in various programs, like Firefox; I had to turn off the suggestions functionality to avoid that.
While it does have arrow keys, it doesn't support "drag left/right on the spacebar to move the cursor left/right", which is behavior that I think is very useful.
In general, with F-Droid software keyboards, I've typically found a lack of ability to input things like diacritics, often limited ability to emulate modifier keys for terminal use.
In general, I haven't really been happy with the Android text input situation. On desktop, I can use emacs, or at least use various plugins to edit the contents of a Firefox text field in emacs. On Android, I'd really like to usually go into a fullscreen editing mode with an external editor when editing text, especially given the small screen on many Android devices
I don't want to be editing text in a little text field in Firefox or whatever other app. Android doesn't really have "external editor" support, where the keyboard and editor are separate apps; it has just the software keyboard, which limits options. Maybe it's possible to implement that at the software keyboard level, have a "use external editor" option; I don't know.
I've just ditched Anysoft. It hung constantly and every layout available had something missing (which was quite impressive).