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Gboard Patches

Morphe patches for Gboard with a mix of global improvements and Taiwan-focused enhancements.

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Gboard Patches is a public Morphe source for a curated set of Gboard enhancements, including both global usability improvements and Taiwan-focused features for local input habits and day-to-day use.

Included Patches

Project-Built Features

Features designed and built by this project rather than simply unlocking an existing Gboard flag.

Clipboard Enhancements

Lets you enhance clipboard retention time, item count limits, preview lines, countdown and creation-time labels, order index, grid columns, and optionally render only the first 1,000 characters on each clipboard card.

Web Clipboard

Hosts a phone-powered Web Clipboard portal that lets desktop browsers sync with Gboard over the same LAN, with a pairing code gate and an optional Quick Settings Tile.

Preview:

Web Clipboard pairing gate Web Clipboard conversation view
Floating Web Search

Open a floating web page directly from Gboard to quickly search for the information you need.

FTP Server

Hosts an FTP server on your phone so desktop FTP clients can browse, upload, download, and resume file transfers over the same LAN. It supports anonymous or password-protected access, a configurable control and passive port range, read-only mode, /sdcard or a user-selected folder as the root, live transfer progress, retained partial uploads, and an optional Quick Settings Tile.

Long-Press Editing Shortcuts

Add Select all, Undo, Copy, Cut, Paste, and Redo long-press shortcuts to English QWERTY and Zhuyin, with an optional globe-key drag gesture that follows the same physical key positions across supported alphabet layouts.

Swipeable Custom Top Row

Lets you swipe the keyboard top row horizontally to open customizable text and JavaScript slots.

Incognito Mode Toggle

Add an Incognito toggle to the Access Point toolbar and configure clipboard and voice typing availability while Incognito mode is active.

Custom Symbols

Adds a dedicated symbols tab and a quick access entry from the comma long-press popup.

Simple Calculator

Adds an optional inline calculator for arithmetic expressions typed in any text field. The result appears in Gboard's suggestion row; tap it to replace the expression, or long-press it to copy the result.

G Logo on Spacebar

Show the G Logo on the spacebar and hide the language label.

Rounded Keyboard Panel

Customize which corners of the keyboard panel are rounded, and set the top and bottom radii separately.

Latin Globe Key Ignore Interval

Add an independent English globe key ignore interval override for post-typing language-switch delay.

Emojis, stickers & GIFs Tab Order

Customize the bottom tab order in Gboard's Emojis, stickers & GIFs panel with drag-and-drop reordering.

Backup & Restore

Exports all Gboard Patches settings to a portable JSON backup and restores only the modules you select, with per-module and per-key results. It also exports, compares, and restores Gboard's raw PB/XML flag-store files.

Gboard Feature Unlocks

Features already present in Gboard that are exposed by enabling hidden settings, rollout gates, or built-in behavior.

AI Writing Tools

Enables the Text correction > Writing tools setting with support for all languages.

Advanced Voice Typing

Enable Advanced Voice Typing with automatic punctuation, and separately enable automatic punctuation for Traditional Chinese voice typing, which does not support Advanced Voice Typing.

Enable OCR / Scan Text

Enable the OCR / Scan Text feature with Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Devanagari recognition backends.

English QWERTY Up-Flick Uppercase

Flick up on the English QWERTY keyboard to toggle uppercase and lowercase.

Enable Inline Autofill Suggestions

Enables inline autofill suggestions in supported contexts.

Grammar Checker

Enables the Text correction > Grammar check setting and its related rollout gate.

Inline Suggestions

Enables the Text correction > Smart Compose setting and its related rollout gate.

Key Shape Selection

Enables the Key shape option inside theme details without forcing rounded keys by default.

Use Bluetooth Microphone

Enables the Voice typing > Use Bluetooth microphone setting and its related rollout gate.

Change emoji size

Enables Gboard's emoji size setting.

Enable cursor trackpad mode

Enables the long-press-spacebar trackpad, cursor lock mode, and the required scrub-move preference.

Enable split keyboard

Enables Gboard's split keyboard layout.

Enable accessibility layout

Enables accessibility layout.

Quick Insert

Enables the Quick Insert panel and toolbar access point.

Hyperspeed Typing Animation

Shows the animation during sustained fast typing with support for all keyboards.

Close Proactive Suggestions

Shows a dismiss button in the proactive suggestions bar.

Clipboard Custom Character Limit

Lets you set the maximum number of characters stored for each text clipboard item, with Gboard's stock 20,000-character limit as the default.

Access Points menu style

Lets you switch between the new and legacy Access Points menu styles.

Top Toolbar Item Count

Lets you customize the top toolbar item count.

Settings Homepage Override

Lets you switch between the new and legacy Gboard settings homepage styles.

Developer options

Enable Developer options and the Flag Editor, allowing you to modify flag values.

Package Rename

Renames the patched package so it can be installed alongside the official Gboard app.

Taiwan-focused Features

Features tailored to Traditional Chinese and Zhuyin input workflows.

Zhuyin Slide Input

On the Zhuyin keyboard, swipe up or down to enter English letters without switching to another keyboard layout.

Zhuyin Quick Traditional/Simplified Toggle

Swipe up on the Zhuyin key to quickly toggle between Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Zhuyin Bottom Row Key Sizes

Adjusts the seven bottom-row slot sizes on the Zhuyin keyboard, including ?123, , the globe key, space, , backspace, and the IME action key.

Install

Add this repository as a Morphe source:

  • Open in Morphe
  • Or manually add https://github.com/jasonwu1994/Gboard-patches

Build

Before running Gradle locally, authenticate to Morphe's GitHub Packages registry with either:

  • gpr.user and gpr.key in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
  • GITHUB_ACTOR and GITHUB_TOKEN as environment variables

Build the Android patch bundle:

.\gradlew.bat :patches:buildAndroid

Regenerate patch metadata:

.\gradlew.bat generatePatchesList

Generated outputs:

  • patches/build/libs/*.mpp
  • patches-list.json
  • patches-bundle.json

License

Released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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