I didn't last long with the stock keyboard before installing AnySoftKeyboard which is one of the few FOSS alternative with support for swipe typing. The experience was... OK. It felt slow and it's accuracy left a lot to be desired. I still had to be slow and pretty accurate, so it didn't really feel like much of a change from the stock experience. FlorisBoard have also introduced their own implementation but the... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Keyboard → OpenBoard (OpenBoard Upadted Fork, FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released...). Source: 11 months ago

The Github code repository (https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard) had an update on February 24, so the app is not abandoned. It reads like they plan a massive update for the next version, and word suggestions will be available. Source: about 1 year ago

I tested two: AnySoftKeyboard, it's stable and works even on very old devices, but it lacks modern features and the settings are really ugly and confusing (but once you look at all of them, you'll be able to make the keyboard the way you like it, is very customizable). And I also tested FlorisBoard, it's modern, beautiful, but it's a work in progress currently in early-beta stage and it has many incomplete or... Source: about 1 year ago

Probably only via AOSP mirror. It's an AOSP component so not officially available as its own component. Check out https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard for a GitHub based OSS keyboard. Source: about 1 year ago

That being said some services that translate and respect privacy are out there. The one I know of off the top of my head is the one integrated into Vivaldi, Lingvanex. Source: about 1 year ago

We are partnered with lingvanex, all translation requests have IP/identifying information removed and such text is not retained after the request completes. Source: over 1 year ago

I loved when Vivaldi opted for translation services of Lingvanex "https://lingvanex.com/" and not of google but then you see they have DNS of google, chain of google enabled for login, phones back to google, dependant on google addon store, uses grid tabs and tab groups and the new share plate where only google apps show not the ones you use mostly to share things made by google for chrome, not for Vivaldi and... Source: almost 2 years ago