Google Pinyin Input APK
App information
Version 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64 (#4520315)
Updated 2018-04-17
APK Size 18.3 MB
Requires Android Android 4.2+ (Jelly Bean)
Offered by Google LLC
Category Free Tools App
App id com.google.android.inputmethod.pinyin
Developer's notes Google Pinyin Input - input Chinese using pinyin, handwriting, etc.
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Latest updates
What's new in Google Pinyin Input 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64
- Some keyboard layout changes
Editor's review
Download the latest Google Pinyin Input application, version 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Tools app is developed by Google LLC and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64, 4.5.2.193126728-x86, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
The app offers a variety of methods for fast and easy input of Chinese characters.
Key features:
- QWERTY Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing and intelligent correction
- 9 key Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing
- Stroke keyboard
- Full screen and half screen handwriting keyboard
- Latin keyboard
- Fuzzy pinyin
- Double pinyin
- Optimized UI for different screen sizes
- Voice input
- Themes
The app supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as punctuation, emoticons, Latin characters and digits. Voice input is network-based in order to provide highly accurate matches.
Note: To be used on your Android device, the input method must be enabled in "Settings" → "Language & Input".
For typing Cantonese, you could download the Google Cantonese Input:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.cantonese
For typing traditional Chinese by Zhuyin or Cangjie, you could download the Google Zhuyin Input:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.zhuyin
App permissions
Google Pinyin Input 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64 APK requires following permissions:
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows applications to read the sync settings.
Allows applications to write the sync settings.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 4.0/5 based on 196K+ reviews
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3 ★ Google Pinyin Input has recently been using 800+ MB of RAM which causes some delays when typing. Since this hasn't been updated in a year I may have to start using a different keyboard app. Update: still using it over a year later. RAM issue has been rare. Not having syncing with account means not able to save history, so always takes longer to write things I've written before but it has forgot.
1 ★ Don't know if this was modified because of the programmer's bad hangover, but it no longer lets you switch between traditional and simplified chinese. You have to uninstall/reinstall first if you want to change settings. This is an update that makes totally no sense to me. Google Control, Inc. it seriously sucks!
3 ★ It was really good previously when users can switch to pin yin and english input all these years, up until the recent updates where this feature is removed entirely. Now even having hard time accessing to symbols while holding an alphabet on the keyboard. Kindly revert to previous input version!!!
3 ★ Can u fix the app of the voice search icon disappearing on certain sites like youtube,chrome homepage? It is very important for me because it supports multiple languages voice search whereas youtube,chrome dont even support it.
3 ★ Used the pinyin board for less than half an year with OnePlus7. Not sure why i cannot find and swith to handwriting option. Today the Pinying key board suddenly not working. Only types English. I rebooted the phone and it's still not working.Will try uninstall and reinstall...
3 ★ Overall is good but unable to save my words into dictionary, please guide how to save my own words into dictionary correctly. I saved and it appears in the dictionary but T9 can't predict my words when i typed it.
5 ★ This app helps me with learning English everyday. Love the content. I highly recommend it.
1 ★ App kept deactivate by itself after every usage.... Have to go back to Google Play to reactivate it again each time I want to use... What is going on...
1 ★ It comes and stay in the phone even used or not. Can't remove. A big headache
1 ★ While typing chinese, the long press interval to input numbers is too short. Numbers show up often when i dont want to.
1 ★ Why can't an only English-speaking person uninstall this?? Ridiculous.
1 ★ Cantonese voice recognition was way better before. Not sure starting from when the accuracy became so bad.
3 ★ Overall this app is fine but the Chinese input of this app has a few things to improve of which are rather disappointing. The dictionary function doesn't allow any adding of new words which is redundant. Many names such as those in Traditional Chinese have a mixture of both simplified & traditional characters which is not possible at all if you input the pinyin of the name but get the wrong traditional version with no options to choose the simplified forms or add the correct words to the dictionary. I really hope there would be amother update soon to address many issues users are experiencing especially regarding the dictionary & etc.
4 ★ Was an incredibly useful app for a Chinese American like me. However, do note that this app is depreciated and hasn't been updated since April 2018 (at the time of writing, it is September 2019). If you are looking for a pinyin input solution on Android, GBoard from Google should suit your needs. Just add Chinese input from its settings.
3 ★ Ok, I am not sure is is really good or really bad. Yes, it has positive features, but something of this input is terrible. First, as the Chinese Input, the database is so poor that it is very hard to find the word I want. Second, it is always make wrong response like sometimes when I input 喜欢, it give me 喜好u. But it also has good features that China input app never have, like no ads and less RAM uses. So anyways, why Google doesn't try to learn good thing from China input app?
Previous versions
Google Pinyin Input 4.5.2.193126728-x86_64 APK for Windows (#4520315, 18.3 MB)
Google Pinyin Input 4.5.2.193126728-x86 APK for Windows (#4520314, 18.3 MB)
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