Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) for Android

A minimalist Chinese keyboard where you input characters by typing stroke sequences (e.g. 天 is ㇐㇐㇒㇔).

Uses Conway Stroke Data.

Features

• Good character support (over 28k characters) including vernacular Cantonese
• User preference for traditional or simplified characters
• No permissions, tracking, etc.
• Deterministic candidate generation which doesn't learn user input

Releases

• English version of Privacy Policy
• 私隱政策中文版

License

Copyright 2021–2024 Conway
Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0-only).
This is free software with NO WARRANTY etc. etc., see LICENSE.

For detailed copyright information in relation to dependencies, see app/src/main/assets/about.html.

Help (for users)

Strokes

Examples

Miscellaneous

Retract keyboard

Use the system Back Button (or Back Gesture) to retract the keyboard.

Assets (for devs)

*.cmd (CMD)

These are Conway-Markdown (CMD) files, used to compile the HTML files by running Conway-Markdown whilst in the root directory of this repository.

*.cmdr (CMD Rules)

These are files containing CMD Rules used by the CMD files.

*.html (HTML)

These are the actual About and Help files that get served in the app.

*.txt (Text)

These are data files used by the input method. Taken from Conway Stroke Data (CC-BY-4.0 / Public Domain), see <https://github.com/stroke-input/stroke-input-data>.

StrokeInputFont.ttf

This is the font used for the keyboard. Taken from Stroke Input Font (GPL-3.0-only), see <https://github.com/stroke-input/stroke-input-font>.

webview.css

This is the stylesheet for the HTML files that get served in the app.