{"id":241202,"date":"2026-05-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:10:07","slug":"i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"I replaced my Android keyboard with this open-source one and it stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/\">I replaced my Android keyboard with this open-source one and it stuck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have never been the sort of person to obsess over keyboard apps. A keyboard is a keyboard, right? Well, Gboard had always sat at the bottom of my screen, auto-correcting my typos and suggesting words with an almost unsettling accuracy. The problem with that unsettling accuracy, it turns out, is exactly that: it&#8217;s unsettling. Gboard includes a &#8220;Share usage statistics&#8221; telemetry option, and disabling it is the only way to stop it from transmitting keyboard usage statistics and snippets of your typing to Google&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Even with those settings toggled off, the fact that you need a checklist to stop your keyboard from narrating your life to a corporation was too much overhead. That was the nudge I needed. I went looking for something cleaner. I actually tested a few open-source alternatives to Gboard before I ultimately found FlorisBoard.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThis brilliant new Android keyboard makes typing effortless<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I speak and this keyboard types, and it&#8217;s damn brilliant.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"florisboard-is-a-free-open-source-keyboard\">\n                        FlorisBoard is a&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I replaced my Android keyboard with this open-source one and it stuck https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-replaced-my-android-keyboard-with-this-open-source-one-and-it-stuck\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/writing-a-note-on-google-keep-with-florisboard.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-241202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241204,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241202\/revisions\/241204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}