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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 (Bonsai Image 4B, 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 – v3.4.5
| Version | Feature | Details |
|---|---|---|
| v3.4.5 | Google Firebase removed | Firebase Analytics and Firebase Cloud Messaging came in with the original Google AI Edge Gallery fork and were never used by Box. There was no configuration file for them, so they could not start up, collect anything or send anything — and analytics was switched off in the manifest on top of that. They are now gone from the app entirely rather than merely disabled, along with 20 dormant tracking calls and six Google entries in the app manifest. Nothing you can see or do in Box changes. |
| v3.4.5 | Google usage logging switched off | Removing Firebase surfaced a second piece of Google code: Clearcut, a usage-logging transport that arrives inside ML Kit (used for background removal, face detection and reading text from images), so it did not leave with Firebase. It sends over an ordinary HTTPS connection rather than through Google Play services — meaning a de-Googled phone does not stop it — and ML Kit provides no setting to turn it off. Box now disables it at the source: with nothing registered to receive them, events are discarded before they are even written down. The ML Kit features themselves are unaffected. |
| v3.3.5 | Pixel 11 / Tensor G6 acceleration | Two models rebuilt for the Tensor G6 in the Pixel 11 — Gemma-4-E2B-it (Tensor G6) (3.3 GB, 32K context, text/image/audio) and Gemma 3 1B-IT (Tensor G6) (2.0 GB, text only). Both run on the phone's dedicated AI hardware rather than the GPU, and are substantially faster there than the standard build. They appear automatically on a Pixel 11 and are hidden everywhere else. The Pixel |