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This works just as well as gboard!
Open source or not, my question is, is my typing data consumed by Google in this context? I'm not an expert in the realm of android libraries and their connectivity or lack thereof, but I'm fine with using a closed source library knowing the data stays on my device.
If you're using something like graphene OS, use gboard and deny it network permissions.
Or use another app like tracker control to deny it internet access.
None whatsoever. You're good to use heliboard with the gesture input library. There is also the FUTO keyboard, which somehow has a gesture input library built in. I would presume theirs is FOSS but I've not done my homework on this.
E: as someone else mentioned, you can deny network permission for gboard with ROMs like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS etc. This is what I did for many years until heliboard came along.
Try to use something like TC (TrackerControl) to restrict the internet connectivity of the app once libraries downloaded.