A new choice for Android Chinese Input-sogou PinYin Input Method

 

If there is something wrong with Google Pinyin input method, I probably won't try sogou's Android platform Pinyin input method. Although the full keyboard is very difficult to use in the case of a portrait screen, it is acceptable to use the horizontal screen, not to mention that G1 has a physical keyboard.

Now the problem is that Google pinyin cannot select the text on the second page of candidate, and re-installation is useless. At this time, I remembered the news that sogou launched the Android platform input method some time ago. So I tried it by downloading it.

On the download page of sogou mobile phone input method, find the corresponding mobile phone model, or directly download the installation package by mobile phone platform (select Android). The installation package is about 1.5 MB, and then the adb install process goes smoothly. After the installation is complete, go to "Locale & Text" to start using it.

First, we can see the main interface of the input method. The numbers, letters, and function keys are clearly distinguished by colors. In addition, Android phones are generally used for large screens, the symbol input area is also placed on the left. Now I chose the numeric keyboard mode, so even the buttons in the portrait screen status are still relatively large, which greatly reduces the misoperation rate. In the landscape status, you can also choose whether to use the numeric or full keyboard mode based on your habits. In order to make everyone feel intuitively, I put Google pinyin together for comparison.

Next, we can try to enter something. In general, we feel that it has good association ability. In the input pinyin state, when the user inputs the pinyin text, the left side is changed to the pinyin selection bar. In this case, you can click to open the function menu to copy, paste, and other actions. Click to switch to the English input mode. In English mode, click to control the dictionary on/off.

On the physical keyboard, the input method prompts you how to switch between Chinese and English, and how to control the English dictionary.

I believe there will be no problems with the basic usage. Let's take a look at the relevant settings. After the installation is complete, sogou adds a shortcut Input Method in the program menu. Click it to go to the settings page.

Here, we can make a lot of settings. The first is "keyboard Settings". In portrait mode, selecting a digital keyboard mode is the key to reducing the input error rate. The Landscape mode depends on your preferences. Next, in "input Settings", we can change the habits in Chinese, English, and symbol input modes, including fuzzy sound settings, whether to enable Lenovo input, and automatically add spaces, the automatic start time is capitalized. We generally need Chinese associations. However, if the majority of Chinese characters are mixed with several English words or URLs, it is not convenient to enable this option to automatically add spaces and automatically add the first two sentences.

The most important thing to mention here is the custom symbols. we can define the most commonly used symbols for Chinese, English, and numbers. If you need to enter the website address and email address frequently, you can use symbols such as "www" and "http: //" as custom symbols. However, when entering the URL in the address bar of the browser and the recipient address in the mail, I found "@",". com, and www. "and other symbols will automatically appear on the input method homepage, no matter how we set custom symbols. This feature is very considerate, but it would be even better if it can be customized. It is a bit confusing now.

Other interesting functions include "dictionary backup", "dictionary restoration", and "update and upgrade. You can back up your dictionary to the network or restore it. Both functions require network support and require users to have a Sohu pass. In fact, backing up the dictionary to the SD card is also a good choice, so that the backup and recovery operations will be faster and more convenient. Of course, I can fully understand why sogou does not do this. In the "update and upgrade" setting, you can manually update the dictionary and software, or enable automatic updates and set the update cycle so that the software can do everything on its own.

Finally, based on my usage over the past few days, I would like to summarize its advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages
1. In portrait mode, the digital keyboard mode greatly improves the input speed and facilitates single-handed use.
2. The accuracy of Chinese Association is very high, so in landscape screen and physical keyboard mode, the typing speed is also improved compared with Google pinyin.
3. the main interface is properly designed, and the input mode switching, copying, and pasting functions are easy to use.
4. User-Defined symbols are very useful.

Disadvantages
1. Like sogou's PC version, the startup speed needs to be improved.
2. When entering a URL or email address in a browser or email, the custom symbol does not work, which is confusing.
3. The function of deleting a user dictionary is not provided.
4. You cannot back up the dictionary to the SD card. You must connect to the network and use the Sohu pass to back up and reply to the dictionary.

A new choice for Android Chinese Input-sogou PinYin Input Method-William Hua's Blog