Development of Avro Keyboard was started in 2003 by Mehdi Hasan Khan, a student from Mymensingh Medical College.

After discussion,[2] OmicronLab published the source code of Windows version under MPL 1.1 license with the Avro Keyboard 5.0.5 public beta 1.

Avro was further developed primarily by Sarim Khan [4] along with Rifat Un Nabi, Tanbin Islam Siyam, Ryan Kamal, Shabab Mustafa and Nipon Haque from OmicronLab.

Avro Keyboard has customizable mode switching with automatic tracking and has a larger field of compatibility.

In spite some criticism for letting typing in foreign alphabets,[9] it acclaimed much popularity, specially among young generation.

He further claimed that UNDP had remarkable influence for selecting Avro for the national ID database project of the Bangladesh Election Commission.

[25] Avro developers denied all allegations, and accused Jabbar of continuous harassment in different stages and media by calling them thieves and for that their petition was ignored there.

They said that the developers behind Bengali computing happened to work under threat of legal persecution and law enforcing agencies.

[31][32] A settlement was made between Khan and Jabbar in a formal meeting on 16 June 2010 in Bangladesh Computer Council office in Agargaon, Dhaka at presence of many IT experts.