Excellent article. I have long thought that mobile has horrible UX, especially for typing. I don't know how other people aren't more annoyed. For me it's because I can touch type relatively fast on a real keyboard, and can switch between a mouse and a keyboard very fast. It's sooo frustrating not having the same speed on mobile while editing.
For writing prose, gboard is bad, but it's the least bad solution, its sliding gestures and predictions are good enough.
I use unexpected keyboard for programming on the go. Free and open source, originally developed for termux. It has arrow keys and modifiers, and undo also works (ctrl z). TBH it's not perfect for me as it doesn't have predictive text and its arrow keys are fiddly, so I use it sparingly.
For writing prose, gboard is bad, but it's the least bad solution, its sliding gestures and predictions are good enough.
I use unexpected keyboard for programming on the go. Free and open source, originally developed for termux. It has arrow keys and modifiers, and undo also works (ctrl z). TBH it's not perfect for me as it doesn't have predictive text and its arrow keys are fiddly, so I use it sparingly.