Perhaps it would be possible to strip the “official” Japanese and Chinese IMEs from the Android source code and include them in F-Droid? Apparently, earlier versions of OpenWnn even included experimental support for Chinese language input (see OpenWnn Legacy above), but at some point Google Pinyin was included for that task. It’s one of the few free open source input methods that don’t “phone home”, but it’s not available on Google Play, which led to the ironic situation of having a large number of closed-source and suspicous-looking forks of OpenWnn circulate on the market. The OpenWnn input method comes preinstalled on Japanese Android phones and is included with the Android source code. OpenWnn Legacy for Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) and Japanse (ja): Zhuyin Cangjie Input method for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW):
Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to evaluate the source code myself.
EDITRA CHINESE IME FOR ANDROID
In fact, there are very few open source input methods for Android in general, but I thought I’d recommend the ones I know of to you guys, so you could have a look at them and perhaps include them in the F-Droid repo. So far, there are no input methods for these languages available on F-Droid. One thing that keeps me from repacing Google Play with the F-Droid client, though, is that I frequently need to input Chinese and Japanese text on my phone.
I love what you guys do here and frequently recommend F-Droid to friends. First of all, let me thank you for setting up such an amazing repository and for making the Android world a little more open.
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