The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while maintaining my privacy. According to what I’ve heard, it sends all typing data to Google’s server. If you ask me, that’s a massive no-no. Do you have any suggestions?

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      1 year ago

      iirc fdroid utilizes very old api which is problematic as newer api gets newer security features droidify and neostore both are more modern

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      1 year ago

      Neo Store can enable automatic updates for apps downloaded from F-Droid.

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          I don’t think it would make F-Droid itself more secure, but it’s best to get possible security updates for apps sooner with auto-updates.