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