https://github.com/tchaikov/scim-googlepinyin

an SCIM port of google pinyin on android platform
https://github.com/tchaikov/scim-googlepinyin

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an SCIM port of google pinyin on android platform

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tchaikov/scim-googlepinyin
• Owner: tchaikov
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2009-08-30T09:35:21.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-08-08T16:26:47.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T19:51:52.174Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/scim-googlepinyin/
• Size: 1.31 MB
• Stars: 85
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 37
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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scim-googlepinyin

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scim-googlepinyin is an SCIM port of google-pinyin on android platform. It's basically a translation from its original java code to C++ counterpart. Android google pinyin's core is not changed in porting, but this user interface is slightly modified to simulate the bevaviour of GooglePinyin on Windows.

why scim-googlepinyin

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I found lots of GNU/Linux users are long for the Google Pinyin for GNU/Linux. And Google is very generous to open source google-pinyin on android. So here it is. SCIM was chosed as the target platform because I use SCIM on a daily basis. Yes, ibus is way better than SCIM in term of compatibility. But I am not quite familiar with it's development yet.

scim-googlepinyin is not

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scim-googlepinyin is not google-pinyin on andoird.

Due to some limitation of SCIM platform (or GNU/Linux), some features are chopped off. Like

 - inline edit

 - predict according to inputted character (we are not able to tell what the text is before input cursor)

 - predict based on the application we are inputting text to (no way to find out the app)

At the time of writing, android google-pinyin has release its version 1.1.3.  While the code on `android open souce project `_ is obviously older than the latest version, which lacks some features like synchronize the user lemma with server. And there is legal issue to analyze the binary of android google-pinyin. So instead of reverse engineering, we need to find some other way to improve scim-googlepinyin.

`Google Pinyin for Windows `_  sets a high bar for us. This software is not able to match with Google Pinyin for Windows in serveral ways. To name some major features we are missing:

 - lacks a good/large enough language model. The size of IME's LM is around 10MiB while that of andoid google-pinyin is only 1.1MiB.

 - the core engine used by android google pinyin may different from that of its Windows version

 - no "i" mode support

 - no English word input assistance

 - not able to export/import user dict in text format

 - no doodle or other eye candies

.. Kov Chai