Does anyone know of a FOSS version of this (android keyboard with hexagonal keys?) (mashable.com)

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Contacted typewise, asked if I could purchase apk from them (the pro version or whatever) since I don't use GPlay store and they said no.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

And it's a offline version so It will not connect to android.

Not sure I follow, but are you sure about that? However, some things to check for:

does it have the network permission?
AndroidManifest.xml inside it contains if it does, but also app manager or plenty other apps can tell if so because it's relatively straightforward to tell
does it to interprocess communication with other apps? through Intents or some more convoluted way, there's plenty. That's hard to tell.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Most modder nowdays not just provide paid version of app but also cut down most of telementry and tracking stuff. Also I check AndroidManifest it doesn't have any unnecessary permission but still I am not gonna use a close sourced keyboard.

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