diff --git a/package/qt5/Config.in b/package/qt5/Config.in
index 4bcbc6ef5..a810503d3 100644
--- a/package/qt5/Config.in
+++ b/package/qt5/Config.in
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ source "package/qt5/qt5serialbus/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5serialport/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5svg/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5tools/Config.in"
+source "package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5webchannel/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5webkit/Config.in"
 source "package/qt5/qt5websockets/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/Config.in b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16ca91655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+comment "qt5virtualkeyboard needs at least qt-5.7 and qt5declarative quick module"
+	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST || !BR2_PACKAGE_QT5DECLARATIVE_QUICK
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD
+	bool "qt5virtualkeyboard"
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_LATEST
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_QT5DECLARATIVE_QUICK
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_QT5SVG
+	help
+	  Qt Virtual Keyboard is a virtual keyboard framework that consists of a
+	  C++ backend supporting custom input methods as well as a UI frontend
+	  implemented in QML.
+
+	  This module is licensed under GPLv3.
+
+if BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS
+	string "language layouts"
+	default "en_GB"
+	help
+	  The Virtual Keyboard supports the following languages:
+	  - Arabic (ar_AR)
+	  - Danish (da_DK)
+	  - English (en_GB)
+	  - Finnish (fi_FI)
+	  - French (fr_FR)
+	  - German (de_DE)
+	  - Hindi (hi_IN)
+	  - Italian (it_IT)
+	  - Japanese (ja_JP)
+	  - Korean (ko_KR)
+	  - Norwegian (nb_NO)
+	  - Persian/Farsi (fa_FA)
+	  - Polish (pl_PL)
+	  - Portugese (pt_PT)
+	  - Romanian (ro_RO)
+	  - Russian (ru_RU)
+	  - Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
+	  - Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
+	  - Spanish (es_ES)
+	  - Swedish (sv_SE)
+
+	  Note: all is a flag for activating all languages.
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_HANDWRITING
+	bool "handwriting"
+	help
+	  Handwriting support, with gestures for fullscreen input.
+
+	  Lipi Toolkit (LipiTk) is an open source toolkit for online Handwriting
+	  Recognition.
+endif
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.hash b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ea30fdb7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Hash from: http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.8/5.8.0/submodules/qtvirtualkeyboard-opensource-src-5.8.0.tar.xz
+sha256 35fdf5b39d930935b6299ac59f347bea89b983e16bd7961fee3f1b8e16f4e21c  qtvirtualkeyboard-opensource-src-5.8.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.mk b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c35dc31a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5virtualkeyboard/qt5virtualkeyboard.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# qt5virtualkeyboard
+#
+################################################################################
+
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_VERSION = $(QT5_VERSION)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_SITE = $(QT5_SITE)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_SOURCE = qtvirtualkeyboard-opensource-src-$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_VERSION).tar.xz
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_DEPENDENCIES = qt5base qt5declarative qt5svg
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_LICENSE_APPROVED),y)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE = GPLv3
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.GPL3
+else
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE = Commercial license
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_REDISTRIBUTE = NO
+endif
+
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS))
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_ALL_LAYOUTS = $(findstring all,$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS))
+ifneq ($(strip $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS)),)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_QMAKEFLAGS += CONFIG+="$(foreach lang,$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS),lang-$(lang))"
+
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_OPENWNN = $(findstring ja_JP,$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS))
+ifneq ($(strip $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_OPENWNN)$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_ALL_LAYOUTS)),)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE := $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE), Apache-2.0 (openwnn)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE_FILES += src/virtualkeyboard/3rdparty/openwnn/NOTICE
+endif
+
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_PINYIN = $(findstring zh_CN,$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS))
+ifneq ($(strip $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_PINYIN)$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_ALL_LAYOUTS)),)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_3RDPARTY_PARTS = YES
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE := $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE), Apache-2.0 (pinyin)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE_FILES += src/virtualkeyboard/3rdparty/pinyin/NOTICE
+endif
+
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_TCIME = $(findstring zh_TW,$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LANGUAGE_LAYOUTS))
+ifneq ($(strip $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_TCIME)$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_ALL_LAYOUTS)),)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_3RDPARTY_PARTS = YES
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE := $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE), Apache-2.0 BSD-3c (tcime)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE_FILES += src/virtualkeyboard/3rdparty/tcime/COPYING
+endif
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_HANDWRITING),y)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_3RDPARTY_PARTS = YES
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_QMAKEFLAGS += CONFIG+=handwriting
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE := $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE), MIT (lipi-toolkit)
+QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_LICENSE_FILES += src/virtualkeyboard/3rdparty/lipi-toolkit/MIT_LICENSE.txt
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(strip $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_3RDPARTY_PARTS)),)
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_TARGET_3RDPARTY_PARTS
+	cp -dpfr $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/qtvirtualkeyboard $(TARGET_DIR)/usr
+endef
+endif
+
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_CONFIGURE_CMDS
+	(cd $(@D); $(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/qmake $(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_QMAKEFLAGS))
+endef
+
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)
+endef
+
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) install
+endef
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_EXAMPLES),y)
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_TARGET_EXAMPLES
+	cp -dpfr $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/qt/examples/virtualkeyboard $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/qt/examples/
+endef
+endif
+
+define QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts
+	cp -dpfr $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libqtvirtualkeyboardplugin.so $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts
+	cp -dpfr $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/qml/QtQuick/VirtualKeyboard $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/qml/QtQuick
+	$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_TARGET_3RDPARTY_PARTS)
+	$(QT5VIRTUALKEYBOARD_INSTALL_TARGET_EXAMPLES)
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))
