Version 0.1.0 of the Jyutping keyboard for Android is available for download on the Google Play Tools category for free. This is a testing version and will expire on 15 May 2013.
Features
- Input traditional and simplified Chinese characters by the Jyutping Romanisation and the English-Chinese dictionary look up on Google Android device without switching.
- Fast response and small memory size.
- Build in 90000+ Chinese characters mapping, including looking up of common Hong Kong Supplementary Characters.
- Choice of 16 keyboard layouts for typing speed or accuracy.
- Mix input of Latin and Chinese characters without mode switching.
- Hardware keyboard support.
- Option to show candidate selection history on the beginning of the candidate bar for fast picking up of frequent selection.
- Learning of related words. Current selected candidate (child) and the left adjacent character (parent) will be stored. When the parent is inputted again, respective child will follow for fast selection.
- Associated phrases (聯想詞).
- Looking up of related words and associated phrases after the moving of text cursor.
- English words suggestion with auto spacing.
- Options of candidates navigation and selection by hardware direction keys and track ball.
- Long press to toogle case of the pressed key for Normal key and Big key keyboard layouts.
- Choice of 4 colors for candidates selection bar.
- Candidates navigation paging buttons.
- DEF key for the selection of underlined default candidate.
- Selection of default candidate by the hardware space bar.
- Options of default selection definition.
- Options to swop symbol keyboards display order.
- Smart punctuations. Auto switching of full width punctuation after Chinese characters.
- Candidate selection hot keys for the hardware keyboard.
Screenshots
Normal key keyboard layout
Pair-key keyboard layout
Big key keyboard layout
Platforms supported
- Google Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.0.3 and 4.1.2.
- Installation from Goole Play is recommended.
- Or download the APK and install manually, if Google Play is not available on your device.
How To Use
- Install the Jyutping keyboard for Android from the Android Market.
- Enable the keyboard in 'Settings' > 'Locale & text'.
- Navigate to a text view and long press to bring up a context menu.
- Tap the 'Select input method' option to show the enabled keyboards list.
- Select 'Jyutping keyboard' to activate the keyboard.
- Tap on the text view again to bring up the keyboard and start entering text.
- Browse matched candidates by scrolling the candidate bar.
- Tap the desired candidate to enter the character.
FAQ
- Nothing happen after installation.
The Jyutping keyboard is implemented as an input method add on for Android. It will not be shown in the programs list of the home screen. Follows the instructions at the 'How To Use' section above to start.
- Can't find a specific Chinese character.
Not all Chinese characters are mapped in the build in look up table. Try to type an Unicode HEX code prefixed with a 'u' to get the specified character. (e.g. type 'u7cb5' to get the character '粵')
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