Autocorrect / suggestion strip

[siccovansas]

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Feature description

It would be great to have optional autocorrect / suggestion strip in the Keyboard app.

Why do you want this feature?

Many popular keyboards have autocorrect / suggestion strip, so people are used to that. I order for people to switch to Fossify Keyboard, many people probably want to have autocorrect / suggestion strip.

[coderph0x]

I'd go for a suggestion of autocorrected words in the top bar. I absolutely hate it when unknown words get autocorrected into something absolutely unrelated as soon as I hit the spacebar.

[naveensingh]

If and when implemented, anything like autocorrect or a suggestion strip will always be optional.

[Ajt8000]

I second this. Auto correct is really needed in the keyboard.

[PanderMusubi]

Next to autosuggest, autocomplete and autocorrect based on a language specific dictionary, https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard also offers this for first and last names in your address book. Probably another feature request but easier to implement and start with as no language specific dictionary is needed.

[tswistak]

The challenge here would be how to implement dictionaries, since Fossify is offline by design. I've seen two approaches in FOSS keyboards that may be considered here:

• AnySoftKeyboard has separate APKs with dictionaries for other languages than English (English is built-in). You can see, there are lots of them on F-Droid: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=anysoftkeyboard&page=1. That approach would be more user-friendly, but I don't know how hard it would be to implement dictionaries as plugins.
• Heliboard (which is nearly like Fossify Keyboard but with dictionaries) links from the app to the page (https://codeberg.org/Helium314/aosp-dictionaries#dictionaries), where user can download a dictionary and then load it to the app. It's less user-friendly, but definitely it should be easy to implement.

[PanderMusubi]

If the dictionaries aren't that big for contemporary app size, just include them all in the app. Saves a lot of trouble.

[PanderMusubi]

E.g. Dutch word list is relatively large because concatenations of noun don't have a space in between them. Uncompressed word list of ~420,000 words is about 5 MB and compressed 1.4 MB.

[MysteriousOrb2000]

Any updates on this? I am surprised this wasn't already available.

[user4andre]

Please don't make the app unnecessarily bloated (more powerful than needed). In my opinion, simplicity is the strongest argument in favor of this keyboard.

I use Anisoft Keyboard. The main reason I want to switch to Fossify is that there are no word suggestions.
For me that is an advantage.