Thumb-Key

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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use.

Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.

As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.

This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.

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submitted 2 years ago by dsemy@lemm.ee to c/thumbkey@lemmy.ml

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I really like the idea behind Thumb Key, but I miss being able to use modifiers (ctrl, alt) like I can with Unexpected Keyboard, for example.

Is there interest in this? I never developed for Android, but if it will be accepted I don't mind learning to do this myself.

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[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's a custom layout for Unexpected Keyboard based on the Thumb-key English symbol layout: Edit: I can't get it to show up on in a code block for some reason: dsemy.com/layout.xml

Edit: I also made a Hebrew layout: dsemy.com/layout-he.xml