Android keyboard · built for Claude Code & Codex
Real ⌃⌥⌘ modifiers on a Mac-US layout, slash commands on one tap, and a trackpad that moves an actual mouse pointer — in an Android keyboard that also types Japanese properly. It never asks for network access.
Android 10 or later · Shizuku optional · No INTERNET permission
/clear, /compact, /model — typed one character at a time.The KeyBoard puts all of it on the keys.
What's on the keys
Tap ⌃ ⌥ or ⌘ and it applies to your next keystroke. Double-tap to lock it. Hold it and type with another finger, exactly as you would on a physical keyboard. They go out as ordinary Android key events with meta state, so terminal and remote desktop apps see them the way they see hardware.
Open the Claude Code pad or the Codex pad from the toolbar and the command lands in the input, spelled correctly, every time.
Esc, Tab, Caps Lock, fn, arrows: the full ANSI layout at Magic Keyboard proportions, so your fingers already know where things are. Remap Caps Lock to Control if that is how you live. A Windows (US) layout is planned.
With Shizuku, The KeyBoard creates a virtual mouse and Android shows its own cursor. One finger moves, tap clicks, two fingers scroll, long-press drags. On wide screens — an unfolded foldable, or landscape — keep a trackpad beside the keys. Pointer speed is adjustable.
12-key flick with key sizes and spacing measured from Samsung's stock keyboard, so switching costs nothing. Conversion runs on-device with Mozc and predicts in real time as you type. Choose flick only, flick plus multi-tap, or multi-tap only.
QWERTY, 12-key English flick, a two-page symbol plane, and a number pad. Standard, split, or floating — resize and reposition from the keyboard itself. Foldables keep separate settings for the cover screen and the inner screen.
Plug in a keyboard and remap its modifiers system-wide through Shizuku — left Command to Control, for instance. Turn on Mac text-editing shortcuts (Ctrl+A/E/K, ⌘+arrows, Option+arrows) and exclude the apps where they get in the way.
Haptics with a strength slider, a flick guide that floats above the key you are touching, and key repeat on ⌫ ◀ ▶.
Privacy
An input method can read what you type. That is why The KeyBoard is built so that it cannot send anything: the app declares no network permission, and Android enforces it. Settings and conversion history stay on the phone. No analytics, no accounts, no ads.
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