[chrismorgan]

I just now figured I’d try AnySoftKeyboard. Its stock behaviour seems a little weird in places, but I’ll try it for a while and see how it goes. But the real thing that’s annoying me is how uncompromisingly huge it is. Its default behaviour has it consuming a shade under two thirds of the available screen space on my not-inordinately-large phone, compared with under half on the Samsung keyboard in its compact (reduced-height) mode. You can control the height of the top row (and it’s compact by default), but can’t control the height of the rest (other than by going to a theme that consumes even more space)? I want to eliminate the wasted ~30px at the bottom, and shrink each row by around 20px. I can easily save 100px here without removing anything.

[aasasd]

ASK's preferences organization could use some work. What you want is in the ‘select theme’ screen: press the gear, then see ‘keys height factor’.

[chrismorgan]

Ah hah! Thank you. 0.65 is much better. Yeah, that gear thing is terribly placed.

[MayeulC]

I agree it's a bit big, I tend to configure my keyboards to use the minimal size. That said, there are multiple themes to pick from, and some are smaller than others. You could conceivably make your own, though I have never tried.

Edit: thanks a lot aasasd, I had just spent a few minutes looking for it (again), without finding it.