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Expressive-Keyboard

Material 3 Expressive keyboard for Android: glide typing, themes, and JavaScript plugins

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GITHUB · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 52 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: input method editors · 31 launches, 0 in the last 7 days ▼ -100% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • android
  • ime
  • jetpack-compose
  • keyboard
  • kotlin
  • material3

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Could you build this?

Partial The keyboard UI, themes, and plugin system are vibe-codeable on Android, but glide typing requires a gesture-decoding algorithm and a word-prediction dictionary/language model, which AI-assisted coding doesn't supply on its own.

What it would actually take: Build a native Android InputMethodService app in Kotlin with a custom keyboard view and a sandboxed JavaScript runtime for plugins. The hard parts are a gesture-to-word decoder (a path-matching or probabilistic model over a lexicon) and tuned next-word prediction across languages. That takes a developer comfortable with IME internals, on-device performance profiling, and curated per-language dictionary data.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1370 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #360 of 1371 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.

  • inlay · github · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • ExpressiveUI · github · 2026-09-09 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • shoji-bar-4 · github · 2026-11-10 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • keyboard-island · github · 2026-10-20 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • A Truly Modular Keyboard · hn · 2026-10-25 · 318 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Eloqium-TTS · github · 2026-09-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • ezBasic · github · 2026-10-25 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • translator-keeb · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53

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