Pinyin as autocompletion/suggestion

[chiraag-nataraj]

Describe your suggested feature

I used to use Messagease and switched to thumb-key when it was created, so thank you so much! I remember I used to use Messagease's auto-completion hacked to provide Chinese characters in response to pinyin input, which was so convenient as a Mandarin learner (made it easy to look things up, try practicing stuff, etc). I mostly lost that when I switched to thumb-key and haven't bothered looking for an alternative (I think there's Fcitx5 ported over to Android, but I prefer using one keyboard for everything if possible!).

I guess this would first need an autocompletion/suggestion engine though. Unless you can somehow harness some OS-level capabilities for that?

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[dessalines]

I also would really like a pinyin input, as I'm forced to use google keyboard rn for that.

Adding autocomplete / suggestions would be really nice to have, but it'd require someone with expertise on how to do it. I'll leave this open but I likely won't have time to work on it, someone else would need to add it.

[mayxiongmao]

I'm a little late to this party, and, while a (somewhat) longtime Thumb-Key user on Android, basically a noob the moment I log into GitHub; but that out of the way, I love Thumb-Key and use it every day, and have, too, had the thought pass through my head many times how much I'd enjoy having a pinyin input option. Seeing this post by a fellow Mandarin learner (OP) made me want to pipe up and add an additional vote of support for this idea. Not a good programmer and an even worse Chinese speaker, but happy to help in other ways to make this happen, should there be any.