Chinese keyboard for Android? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by citytree@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is there any open source and privacy-respecting Android keyboard for Chinese input? I want to avoid proprietary keyboards such as Gboard and Samsung Keyboard. Unfortunately, the open source Android keyboards that I found only support alphabetic input:

For Chinese input I would like pinyin input for both traditional characters and simplified characters. Handwriting input would be nice to have but it is not essential.

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[-] cambionn@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fcitx5 for Android has decent Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. I don't think it has handwriting tho. Otherwise you have Trime, which is Rime for Android but I've never got it to work properly (unlike Rime on Linux which works fine).

I mainly use simplified, so don't pin me on traditional options. I use Florisboard for English.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Trime seems to be traditional first, trimerc is supposed to support both simplified and traditional.

However I cannot get trimerc to work recently, so a switched to Fcitx5, and it works perfectly.

[-] cheribbit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

For bopomofo LIME IME seems promising. On its website it says it supports pinyin but I couldn't get it to work for me :(

[-] Revolutionary_Pi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I am not sure if it supports Chinese input but I use Florisboard myself, a very simple customizeable keyboard.

[-] citytree@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No, FlorisBoard does not support Chinese input. Source: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/149

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