Custom Keyboard for Android is an app by Gr8ly in the Personalization category. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.
It asks for 2 permissions, none of them sensitive.
What's new in v2.0
V7.1
The Default Keyboard can now be delete (or synced to server for new users)
Long press space-bar for other keyboards was moved to Gr8ly symbol
V7.1
Offline support
Long press space-bar for other keyboards
Ver 7
Improved Loading of Symbols
Ver 6.9
Billing bug Fixed
Ver 6.8
Lots of bug fixes
Loading Symbol speed Improved
Change Height of Action Buttons on Keyboard
Hide Action Buttons from Keyboard
Ver 6.7
Lots of bug fixes
Can Delete a Layout
Choose Layout from Keyboard
Description
From the listing uploaded by “zuazr”.
This is the new version of Symbol Shortcuts, now with added complete custom keyboard and all the Characters of the Unicode table... and yes, including Emoji 😀
Features:
* Build android custom keyboard with any symbol by adding it to your favorites.
* Quick access from keyboard to favorites to add more symbols.
* Search the symbols by Unicode, HTML code, UTF-8, UTF-16, Description or Character.
* Unsupported symbols will be filtered out from the menu, but can still be retrieved by search.
* Character information like Unicode, HTML code, UTF-8, UTF-16, Description will be displayed when selecting a symbol.
* Copy and Paste options are available for character or string of characters by enabling Text Editor mode.
* Keyboard has swipe left and right function to view other symbols that are listed in your favorites/keyboard.
* Basic symbols only show the Alt codes, for DOS or other computer operating systems.
To use Office code, type the code where the symbol is required. Hold down Alt, press x ones and then release Alt.
Find character by coping the symbol and paste it in search text field and search. Make sure there are no spaces or other characters next to that character, else it will search character descriptions.
Character/Symbols for:
Basic Symbols, Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic (Russian), Cyrillic Supplement, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Arabic Supplement, Thaana, NKo, Samaritan, Mandaic, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Georgian, Hangul Jamo, Ethiopic, Ethiopic Supplement, Cherokee, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Ogham, Runic, Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Khmer, Mongolian, Limbu, Tai Le, New Tai Lue, Khmer Symbols, Buginese, Tai Tham, Balinese, Sundanese, Batak, Lepcha, Ol Chiki, Sundanese Supplement, Vedic Extensions, Phonetic Extensions, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Braille Patterns, Glagolitic, Coptic, Georgian Supplement, Tifinagh, Kangxi Radicals, Ideographic Description Characters, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Kanbun, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, Yijing Hexagram Symbols, CJK Unified Ideographs, Yi Syllables, Yi Radicals, Lisu, Vai, Bamum, Modifier Tone Letters, Syloti Nagri, Common Indic Number Forms, Phags-pa, Saurashtra, Kayah Li, Rejang, Javanese, Cham, Tai Viet, Meetei Mayek Extensions, Cherokee Supplement, Meetei Mayek, Hangul Syllables, High Surrogates, High Private Use Surrogates, Low Surrogates, Private Use Area, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Variation Selectors, Vertical Forms, Combining Half Marks, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Specials, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Coptic Epact Numbers, Old Italic, Gothic, Old Permic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Deseret, Shavian, Osmanya, Old South Arabian, Old North Arabian, Manichaean, Avestan, Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement, Emoticons (Emoji), Transport and Map Symbols and all the rest!!
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate with Google's generic nameGoogle Play App Signing gives the keys it manages this name, but anyone can put it in a certificate, so this alone proves nothing.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature verifiedNov 11, 2025
Signed byCN=Android, OU=Android, O=Google Inc., L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US
Uploaded by “zuazr”6 followers · uploading since 2025
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Permissions (2)
Custom Keyboard for Android requests 2 permissions, none of them sensitive.
Custom Keyboard for Android APK: questions and answers
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the Custom Keyboard for Android APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is 1df3cc92c8e1610465663b87fe6b7857.