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Non-Gboard Chinese phone keyboards? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by blakeus12@hexbear.net to c/learnchinese@lemmygrad.ml
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de-googling more and more and i was wondering what your favorite Chinese keyboards are on Android. Right now I am using GBoard's, and i kinda like it (你好！我将很臭中文.）but i also kinda hate google (我很恨谷歌。）do any of you comrades have good alternatives?

bonus question: good ways to type chinese on linux?

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[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I use an old version of SwiftKey (8.10, got from aptoide) with no permissions and no data access (after downloading the language packs and themes).

[–] tolecnal@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android With Rime plugin

[–] sagt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Works better than anything listed here! Although, for me RIME was unnecessary.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know of any libre keyboard for pinyin input, but there's a stroke input method keyboard on F-Droid (yeah it's not practical at all). There's also a bopomofo keyboard on there too iirc

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

thanks! i will keep that in mind

[–] squaresteak@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not open source but Sogou keyboard: https://shurufa.sogou.com/