v1.0.0

Welcome to hcboard

hcboard is an Android keyboard for everyday typing that is ready when you want to tinker — and keeps to itself. It runs on Android 8.0 and later.

Everyday typing

• Glide typing, local word suggestions, and autocorrect with backspace undo.
• Ten layouts: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and Polish.
• Long-press accents, key previews, haptic feedback, cursor control from the space bar, and adjustable height, borders, and bottom padding.
• Material 3 styling with System, Light, Dark, and Black themes.

When you want to tinker

• A full 60% layout on wide phones, foldables, and tablets, with Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, Meta, symbols, and F1–F12 behind Fn.
• A one-tap developer strip on phones with Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, Shift, arrows, and Fn.
• Tap-to-arm, double-tap or long-press-to-lock modifiers, including real Ctrl+C key events in terminals and SSH sessions.
• Positional shortcuts on Cyrillic layouts, so Ctrl+С sends Ctrl+C.

Private by design

• No INTERNET permission, analytics, accounts, sync, or typing logs.
• Dictionaries and suggestions stay on your device and are disabled in sensitive fields.
• Inline password-manager suggestions are hosted without reading their credentials.

Install

Download hcboard-v1.0.0.apk, install it, then open hcboard from the app launcher to enable and select it as your keyboard. You can also track future releases through Obtainium using this repository URL.

Dev build

Latest build of main at 56a548c: Docs: Invite language and feature requests in README (#62)

Built 2026-09-20 14:22 UTC. Debug build for testing, not a release.

Install: download hcboard-dev.apk, open it on the phone (allow installs from your browser or files app), then enable and select hcboard under Settings › System › Keyboard › On-screen keyboard. Or with adb: adb install -r hcboard-dev.apk.