Google Chinese Pinyin IME on Android phone

Like me, you are probably looking for Chinese Input Method for your g1 phone which has a pure English OS. Android Market has a product (from it4startup), but it is not free. so I have no chance to try it, not sure how good it is.

Actually, Android has its official Google Chinese Pinyin IME. If you are a fun of Android, you can download the source code and build it yourself, or you can simply download it from

http://www.2shared.com/file/6381131/1b885d75/PinyinIME.html

I used Android SDK command abd to install PinyinIME.apk to my device. Probably you can install it by visiting the link above by your g1 phone.

After installation, the Locale & text page looks like as following




By default, you can switch between Chinese and English by pressing Shift-Space.