What keyboard do you use and what do you avoid on your Android device? Regardless of OS (i.e., OxygenOS, Lineage OS, etc.) And why.
@redcoqui
OpenBoard from F-Droid on Android, it looks great and works fine.
I avoid closed source apps, aside from Google apps I only have Firefox (it probably has some closed source components on Android) and a epub/pdf reader with no suspicious premissions installed. Everything else is FOSS.
Why? My local forum is filled with people dissatisfied with this phone model: it lags, hags, battery drains fast, etc. I have none of these issues.
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@m_svo You can install Fennec from F-Droid as well for a completely open Firefox build without telemetry.
@tilduke
Thanks! Was surprised to see it's not locked down like a normal FF stable release: developer mode is there, I can load any extension I like, and about:config is there too (it's not in FF stable).
So, stable with benefits! I like that!
@redcoqui
Also my wife recently asked me to help her clean up space on her phone, and we started checking if some apps generated too much cache.
Guess what, the weather app (probably the most popular in my country, it's from Yandex) generated 640 MB of data (not cache). What was it doing? Recording audio? (half joking here, probably just a bug)
But this speaks a lot of closed source apps for me. They are not optimized, they are not secure, they are mostly just trash.
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