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Non-Gboard Chinese phone keyboards? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

thanks! i will keep that in mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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