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Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法)

A minimalist Chinese keyboard.
New in version 1.6.0
* Added characters 𠮟 (mouth-beside-seven), 𠂇𠦝𡯂𤴓𦉪𨸏 (critical components), and 𠓗𠓾𣁾𤾩 (selected triplications)
* Added toggle settings for *optional* characters:
- For full coverage of the Basic Multilingual Plane:
* U+9FD1 鿑 to U+9FFF 鿿 (tail end of CJK Unified Ideographs)
* U+4DB6 䶶 to U+4DBF 䶿 (tail end of Extension A)
- For highly technical users:
* U+20024 𠀤 (Kangxi explanatory 並)
* U+2B7F7 𫟷 (simplified 鉝 "livermorium")
This keyboard app lets you input Chinese characters by typing stroke sequences (e.g. 天 is ㇐㇐㇒㇔).

It is a minimalist implementation with the following features:

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

After installing the app, launch and follow the prompts to enable Stroke Input Method in your system settings. There will be a default warning shown — this is normal.

This app is free and open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0-only).

You are welcome and encouraged to inspect the source code: https://github.com/stroke-input/stroke-input-android
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