florisboard / florisboard

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

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.

Note: Due to various reasons development has been quite stuck in the past year, but things are slowly improving again and new releases/features will follow in the near future, please see the roadmap for details!

Stable	Beta
Major versions only Updates are more polished, new features are matured and tested through to ensure a stable experience.	Alpha/Beta 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) Manual: Download and install the APK from the release page.	Google Play: Join the FlorisBoard Test Group, then visit the beta testing page. Once joined and installed, updates will be delivered like for any other app. (Store entry) Manual: Download and install the APK from the release page.

Beginning with v0.4.0 FlorisBoard will follow SemVer versioning scheme. 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

Word suggestions/spell checking are not included in the current releases and are a major goal for the v0.5.0 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.

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
• Accompanist Compose UI libraries by Google
• AboutLibraries by mikepenz
• Google Material icons by Google
• JetPref preference library by patrickgold
• KotlinX coroutines library by Kotlin
• KotlinX serialization library by Kotlin
• ICU4C by The Unicode Consortium

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

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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