A privacy-first Android keyboard. Solboard is a modified version of HeliBoard, which is itself based on AOSP / OpenBoard.
No INTERNET permission. Not "offline by default", not "network features
are opt-in" — the capability is absent from the manifest, so nothing can leave
the device. That is the whole point of this fork, and it is upstream's design,
not an addition.
Grab the APK from the latest release.
Requires Android 5.0 or newer.
To get updates without the keyboard checking the network (which it cannot do),
use Obtainium and point it at this
repository. Version names carry a monotonic build number (4.3-beta1.2567), so
updates are ordered correctly.
Identity, four extra keyboard themes, a default night theme, a launcher icon, and about a dozen small behavioural fixes — including clipboard history now stopping while incognito is active. Every deliberate difference, with the file for each, is listed in MODIFICATIONS.md.
- Install the APK.
- Settings → System → Languages & input → On-screen keyboard → Manage keyboards → enable Solboard.
- Pick it as the current keyboard.
Needs JDK 17 or newer and the Android SDK with compileSdk 37.
./gradlew assembleDebug # debug build, installs as Solboard debug
./gradlew assembleRelease # signed only if a keystore is configuredassembleRelease signs when keystore.properties exists at the repository root
(git-ignored) or the RELEASE_STORE_FILE, RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD,
RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS and RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD environment variables are set.
Without either, it produces an unsigned APK, as upstream does.
GNU GPL v3.0 — see LICENSE. Solboard is based on HeliBoard (© the HeliBoard contributors) and on the AOSP keyboard. Because this is a modified GPL work, if you receive a build from anyone you are entitled to the source it was built from; each release page carries the source archive for its own tag.
Upstream's documentation still describes almost everything this keyboard does: HeliBoard wiki.