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	Beta
Major versions only, 1 release per 1-5 months Updates are more polished, new features are matured and tested through to ensure a stable experience.	Beta versions, up to 1-2 releases per week 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.

Stable

Beta

Major versions only, 1 release per 1-5 months

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

Beta versions, up to 1-2 releases per week

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 and 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
Spell checking service
Glide typing (currently English only)

Word suggestions are not included in the current releases and are a major goal for the v0.4.0 milestone.

Feature roadmap: See ROADMAP.md

Contributing

Wanna contribute to FlorisBoard? That's great to hear! There are lots of different ways to help out. Bug reporting, making pull requests, translating FlorisBoard to make it more accessible, etc. For more information see the contributing guidelines. Thank you for your help!

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
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
Nuspell by Nuspell

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

License

Copyright 2020-2022 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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