FlorisBoard

FlorisBoard is a free and open-source keyboard for Android 7.0+ devices. It aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in early-beta state.

Stable

Preview

Major versions only

Updates are more polished, new features are matured and tested through to ensure a stable experience.

Major + Alpha/Beta/Rc versions

Updates contain new features that may not be fully matured yet and bugs are more likely to occur. Allows you to give early feedback.

Google Play: Join the FlorisBoard Test Group, then visit the testing page. Once joined and installed, updates will be delivered like for any other app. (Store entry)

Obtainium: Auto-import stable config

Manual: Download and install the APK from the release page.

Google Play: Join the FlorisBoard Test Group, then visit the preview testing page. Once joined and installed, updates will be delivered like for any other app. (Store entry)

Obtainium: Auto-import preview config

Manual: Download and install the APK from the release page.

Beginning with v0.6.0 FlorisBoard will enter the public beta on Google Play.

Highlighted features

Integrated clipboard manager / history
Advanced theming support and customization
Integrated extension support (still evolving)
Emoji keyboard / history / suggestions

Important

Word suggestions/spell checking are not included in the current releases and are a major goal for the v0.5 milestone.

Feature roadmap: See ROADMAP.md

Contributing

Want to contribute to FlorisBoard? That's great to hear! There are lots of different ways to help out, please see the contribution guidelines for more info.

Addons Store

The official Addons Store offers the possibility for the community to share and download FlorisBoard extensions. Instructions on how to publish addons can be found here.

Many thanks to Ali (@4H1R) for implementing the store!

Note

During the initial beta release phase, the Addons Store will only accept theme extensions. Later on we plan to add support for language packs and keyboard extensions.

List of permissions FlorisBoard requests

Please refer to this page to get more information on this topic.

Used libraries, components and icons

AndroidX libraries by Android Jetpack
AboutLibraries by mikepenz
Google Material icons by Google
JetPref preference library by patrickgold
KotlinX coroutines library by Kotlin
KotlinX serialization library by Kotlin

Many thanks to Nikolay Anzarov (@BloodRaven0) for designing and providing the main app icons to this project!

License

Copyright 2020-2024 Patrick Goldinger

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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