Anysoftkeyboard: Japanese keyboard development

[Mobius-One]

I'm making a Japanese language pack, I would like to know if it's possible to include an additional layout accessible via the top row, like when accessing the symbols keyboard through the top row. Using this idea, when having a hiragana keyboard (the basic Japanese "alphabet", correctly known as syllabary) based on the user may want to type a word or two in katakana (the syllabary for foreign words) without having to go through the hassle of changing to a completely different layout. Popup and multi-tap keys can be used with the Japanese Industrial Standards layout (basically a qwerty mode), but are not an interesting option with a 12-key layout (keitai mode) because the mix would be confusing as there would be more than 15 characters per key in some cases. Just a thought, a layout exclusively for katakana is possible, but not interesting in terms of productivity. It goes a little bit towards these two issue requests: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/923 https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/1390

Thanks for any help, I will keep the work and have the pack fully set very very soon.

[chpznf]

Hello. Thanks for working on the Japanese pack! I can't wait to be able to use it :)

[Mobius-One]

@chpznf Would you like a snippet apk to check it out and give some ideas and suggestions?

[moonmillion]

Hi, glad to hear someone is working on Japanese. I'm happy to help if needed. Feel free to send snippet apk

I am also interested to create a chinese input if no one is working on this. will create separate thread to ask.

[grravity]

@Mobius-One
Is this still being worked on/completed ? Would love to have it if so.

[Mobius-One]

Unfortunately there are some limitations because it uses symbols instead of letters in regards of dictionary (prevision and correction) and kana to kanji converter, so I dropped it. But I'm studying and developing it using a Japanese Input Method Editor Framework, shouldn't take long. I happened to pass by to gather some data on the problems I was having.
But I managed to get to an interesting point with ASK: http://imgur.com/a/O2EmsIm

[Kreyren]

Care to release the source code even when its not finished? I would already use it ^-^

[marcoXbresciani]

Unfortunately there are some limitations because it uses symbols instead of letters in regards of dictionary (prevision and correction) and kana to kanji converter, so I dropped it. But I'm studying and developing it using a Japanese Input Method Editor Framework, shouldn't take long. I happened to pass by to gather some data on the problems I was having.
But I managed to get to an interesting point with ASK: http://imgur.com/a/O2EmsIm

News on this?