OpenBoard does allow to use the spacebar to position the cursor. Holding it down and den swipe left or right to move the cursor.
That was originally a Gboard feature but it's great, so every decent keyboard supports it now.
One thing I really like about the iOS keyboard is that doing that can move the cursor in all directions. On Android keyboards, dragging the spacebar can only move it left/right.
Agreed, there's enough room to go two lines down and many up.
Android can already go up/down without issues if you have a keyboard with arrow keys, so keyboards would just need to implement the gesture.
IOS also has contextual tab buttons that are very nice. I wish other companies would copy the things apple does well instead of the bullshit they actually copy.
IIRC only iOS has that because apple holds a patent on that specific implementation. Which sucks because on Gboard the space bar can be quite small and the timing between activating the cursor scroll and opening the language menu seems like 0.15 seconds
@WestwardWind@lemm.ee SwiftKey on Android also supports moving the cursor in all directions.
Wait, what? How did I not know this? That's great!
I use Gboard which does the same, but I also have multiple languages enabled which you switch by long-pressing the spacebar and I regularly trigger the wrong one - very annoying.
Did you try enabling the separate language switch button? It may be better that way
Hacker's Keyboard has arrow keys, shift, ctrl, alt, and escape. This isn't a limitation of phone keyboards in general, just the poor design choices of most stock keyboards.
Man now I want those too. Can you call up the keyboard manually to use them outside of text entry?
Hacker's Keyboard has an option for a persistent notification that can be used to bring up the keyboard whenever you want. On mobile Linux, at least on Phosh (which is the environment that squeekboard is a part of) there is a button on the bottom bar that pulls up the keyboard whenever you want it.
OpenBoard does allow to use the spacebar to position the cursor. Holding it down and den swipe left or right to move the cursor.
That was originally a Gboard feature but it's great, so every decent keyboard supports it now.
One thing I really like about the iOS keyboard is that doing that can move the cursor in all directions. On Android keyboards, dragging the spacebar can only move it left/right.
Agreed, there's enough room to go two lines down and many up. Android can already go up/down without issues if you have a keyboard with arrow keys, so keyboards would just need to implement the gesture.
IOS also has contextual tab buttons that are very nice. I wish other companies would copy the things apple does well instead of the bullshit they actually copy.
IIRC only iOS has that because apple holds a patent on that specific implementation. Which sucks because on Gboard the space bar can be quite small and the timing between activating the cursor scroll and opening the language menu seems like 0.15 seconds
@WestwardWind@lemm.ee SwiftKey on Android also supports moving the cursor in all directions.
Wait, what? How did I not know this? That's great!
I use Gboard which does the same, but I also have multiple languages enabled which you switch by long-pressing the spacebar and I regularly trigger the wrong one - very annoying.
Did you try enabling the separate language switch button? It may be better that way
Hacker's Keyboard has arrow keys, shift, ctrl, alt, and escape. This isn't a limitation of phone keyboards in general, just the poor design choices of most stock keyboards.
Man now I want those too. Can you call up the keyboard manually to use them outside of text entry?
Hacker's Keyboard has an option for a persistent notification that can be used to bring up the keyboard whenever you want. On mobile Linux, at least on Phosh (which is the environment that squeekboard is a part of) there is a button on the bottom bar that pulls up the keyboard whenever you want it.
Neat! Thanks