OpenBoard (keyboard)
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Original author(s) | Daniele Laudani |
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Initial release | December 31, 2019 |
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Operating system | Android |
Size | 48 MB |
Available in | 64 languages |
List of languages Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zulu | |
Type | Virtual keyboard |
License | GPL-3.0 |
Website | https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard |
OpenBoard is a discontinued free and open source keyboard based on AOSP for Android devices.
It does not contain shortcuts to any Google apps and does not connect to Google servers.[1] OpenBoard is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.[2]
There is a fork of OpenBoard that gained popularity, called HeliBoard.[3]
Features
[edit]OpenBoard is a privacy focused keyboard. It supports spell checking, text corrections and suggestions. It supports "force incognito mode" to disable the learning of new words, and Clipboard history, delete-key swipe actions.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Using OpenBoard Keyboard as a Replacement for Google Gboard | Developer Portal". developer.zebra.com. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- ^ "OpenBoard - keyboard based on AOSP". LinuxLinks. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- ^ "If Gboard is the best Android keyboard, why do I like this alternative so much?". Android Authority. 2024-12-08. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
- ^ "OpenBoard is a privacy-friendly keyboard for Android - gHacks Tech News". gHacks Technology News. 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2022-02-28.