What is Morphe Gboard?

Gboard is Google's Android keyboard. A surprising amount of it is hidden behind server flags or rolled out slowly country by country. This build uses jasonwu1994/Gboard-patches, a community bundle for the Morphe patcher, to switch a lot of that on and add tools Gboard never had. It doesn't come from the Morphe developers, and the APK itself is built by the community AutoBuilds pipeline.

The author writes in Traditional Chinese and English, and a handful of patches only matter if you type Zhuyin (slide input, a quick Traditional/Simplified toggle). The rest is useful to anyone. The clipboard keeps more for longer, you can import ZIP themes or pull them from the Rboard repository, there's OCR text scanning and a calculator in the suggestion row, and a flag editor if you like poking around.

What jasonwu1994's patches add to Gboard

A clipboard that keeps more

Raise how long clips are kept, how many are stored and how many characters each one holds. Preview lines, timestamps and column count can be changed too.

Web Clipboard

The phone runs a small web clipboard you can pair with a browser on your computer, with a Quick Settings tile to turn it on and off.

Themes and key shapes

Import custom ZIP themes or ones from the Rboard repository, switch to rounded keys, round the panel corners and put the G logo on the spacebar.

Trackpad and editing shortcuts

Long-press the space bar for a cursor trackpad. Long-press shortcuts for select all, undo, copy, cut, paste and redo are added to QWERTY and Zhuyin.

Scan text with OCR

Turns on Gboard's Scan Text feature with Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari recognition.

Calculator and floating search

Type a sum and the answer appears in the suggestion row. A floating web page lets you look something up without leaving the app you're in.

Writing tools turned on

Enables AI writing tools for all languages, grammar check, Smart Compose and advanced voice typing with automatic punctuation. They still depend on Google's backend, so results vary by language.

Developer options and backup

A flag editor, backup and restore for your patch settings, an incognito toggle in the toolbar, and even a LAN FTP server, which is an odd thing for a keyboard to have.

Getting Morphe Gboard running

  1. Download the APK from the box above. It's labelled Universal, but Gboard's own version name ends in arm64-v8a, which suggests Google's ARM64 build. Expect it to work on 64-bit ARM phones, which is nearly all of them.
  2. Install it, allowing unknown apps for your browser or file manager when asked. You can keep the Play Store Gboard. The Package Rename patch gives this one its own package name, so both can be installed.
  3. Go to your phone's keyboard settings (usually Settings → System → Keyboard, depending on the phone), enable the patched Gboard and set it as the default. Android shows a warning that keyboards can see what you type. That's standard for every keyboard.
  4. Open the patched Gboard's settings to set up themes, the clipboard and the other extras.

Morphe Gboard questions

This build is Google's Gboard with jasonwu1994's open-source Gboard-patches applied, put together by the community AutoBuilds pipeline. It's not an official Morphe bundle. A keyboard sees everything you type, passwords included, so trust matters more here than with most apps. Read the patch repository and only install it if you're comfortable.

No. The Gboard bundle has no GmsCore patch. It uses a signature bypass patch so Gboard's own checks still pass after the APK is re-signed.

Yes. The Package Rename patch installs this one under a different package name, so you can switch between the two in your keyboard settings.

The author is a Traditional Chinese speaker, and the patches are described in both Chinese and English. A few of them, like Zhuyin slide input, only matter for the Zhuyin keyboard, and you can ignore them.

The version name points to Google's ARM64 build, so it's meant for 64-bit ARM phones. Very old 32-bit devices and x86 tablets are likely out of luck.

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