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Note: If you're using a custom ROM (LineageOS, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS), download the
custom-rom-supportAPK from the latest release instead.
Install via Obtainium
- Open Obtainium on your phone
- Tap the + button
- Paste this repo URL:
https://github.com/jegly/Box - Tap Add
Recommended for most users: Main version
Which version should I install?
| Version | For |
|---|---|
| Main | Stock Android (Pixel, Samsung, etc.) |
| Custom ROM | GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS — no Google services |
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The in-app updater is also available in Settings
Setup steps
- Tap the badge for your version above — this opens Obtainium with the repo pre-filled
- Under APK filter regex, enter one of the following:
- Main:
Main - Custom ROM:
custom-rom-support
- Main:
- Tap Add — Obtainium will find the latest release and install it
- Future updates will be detected automatically
Note: As of v2.0.0, the in-app App version matches the Box release version (2.0.0) — the earlier mismatch with the upstream Google AI Edge Gallery build number (which showed 1.0.15) is fixed (#67). Box releases are tracked via GitHub tags. Use Settings → Check for updates to see if a newer Box release is available.
Box is a security-hardened, feature rich fork of Google AI Edge Gallery — with on-device image generation (FLUX.2 klein & Z-Image Turbo diffusion), Box Assist (spoken camera assistance for blind and low-vision users), AI image upscaling, face recognition, photo erase/inpainting, music & sound generation, voice mode (speech-to-speech AI chat), voice input, multilingual text-to-speech, document analysis and Q&A, vision AI, full GPU and Snapdragon/Tensor/MediaTek NPU acceleration, a hardened security posture (biometric lock, encrypted chat history, tap-jacking protection), llama.cpp support, and GGUF model import — and more
[!IMPORTANT]
Disclaimer
Box began as a fork of Google AI Edge Gallery and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC. Google branding has been replaced throughout. Box has since diverged substantially from upstream — active merging with upstream stopped some time ago, and upstream has itself since adopted features that originated in Box. Box now carries roughly 50+ features not present in upstream Google AI Edge Gallery. Credit for the original underlying platform goes to Google and the original contributors.
Changelog v1.0.7 – v3.3.0
| Version | Feature | Details |
|---|---|---|
| v3.3.0 | 🦯 Box Assist — a camera that talks (NEW) | Spoken camera assistance for blind and low-vision users, under the Core tab. Live mode calls out people, obstacles and objects with how close they are; Reading mode reads mail, labels and menus aloud; Describe mode describes the scene, spoken as it thinks; voice questions — double-tap, ask out loud, and Box answers against what the camera sees. One download bundles everything (vision models + the Describe brain + speech recognition). Continuous autofocus with pre-capture focus sweeps, automatic flashlight in the dark, a blur check on Reading, physical volume-button controls, hold-to-repeat, TalkBack coexistence, screen never times out, and a launcher long-press shortcut straight into it. Fully offline. |
| v3.3.0 | ⚡ GGUF engine rebuilt — real GPU acceleration | The llama.cpp engine got a ground-up overhaul: full Vulkan GPU offload via the CPU/GPU chip in any GGUF chat, a massively faster CPU mode (a flaw routed CPU prompt processing through the GPU — 0.7 → 21 tok/s on a Pixel 6a), instant replies (weights read up front, reopened chats replay their history during the loading screen), a tokens/sec stat under every GGUF reply, a new Settings → GGUF Models panel (context size, CPU threads, GPU layers, mmap, mlock, Q8 KV cache), sturdier imports with byte-verification, and automatic GPU→CPU retry. llama.cpp updated to a current build. |
| v3.3.0 | 🎨 On-device image generation — FLUX.2 klein & Z-Image Turbo | Two full text-to-image diffusion models running 100% on-device via LiteRT: FLUX.2 klein (4B) — photorealistic images in 4 steps (~7.4 GB download) — and Z-Image Turbo (9 steps), which shares nearly a gigabyte of files with klein so Box doesn't download them twice. Multi-gigabyte downloads now resume without refetching finished files, progress bars show honest totals, and a model only shows "downloaded" when every file is actually present. |
| v3.3.0 | **🔍 Five new vision model |