Any open source pinyin Chinese IME?

[marcnn]

Is there any open source IME I could use for inputting Chinese characters in pinyin? On desktop I use ibus with libpinyin.

My research so far:

• I can see OpenWnn Legacy in the Archive due to KnownVuln.
• I once saw OpenWnn Chinese in the repos but it disappeared somehow.
• There’s https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.android.inputmethod.pinyin (what’s wrong with android.os.SystemProperties, it’s in the open source part of Android)

[relan]

I couldn’t find any free pinyin IME either.

AOSP PinyinIME cannot be built as is because it uses non-exported API. That’s easy to fix, I actually made it compatible with Jelly Bean and later: relan / PinyinIME · GitLab

But that is software from Gingerbread era and it will require a lot of efforts to make it look and work like a modern keyboard.

Maybe a better approach would be adding pinyin support into LatinIME (Google maintains it quite well). After all, you use latin letters to enter text with pinyin.

[marcnn]

How about uploading your version to F-Droid? I’d prefer a Gingerbread-looking FOSS keyboard that nothing at all

[relan]

It’s undercooked and I actually don’t have time to maintain it.