BastardNamban
August 28th, 2010, 03:25 AM
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place. As android is a linux OS, but not ubuntu,
I wasn't sure where to or if I could ask this here. Most of the Android related posts showed up here.
I want to finally get a smartphone, and the Android powered Samsung Captivate looks sweet. I played around with the keyboard
today on one- amazing tactile response, even from my huge fingers. I was typing nearly as fast as with my laptop keyboard, and I still can't believe that.
After looking at the phone's language input options, it internally had French and German. I use SCIM with Anthy Japanese input in Ubuntu, and I noticed
looking around from my laptop on android there appears to be some form of Japanese input available to Android, listed as "Japanese (ja_JP)" on here. (http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2.html#locs)
I also found some poorly reviewed apps on the phone's store itself for Japanese input.
HERE'S what I want to know: Since I know next to nothing about how Android works, I want to ask- is there or can there be a way to add the linux program
SCIM to an Android powered smartphone to do input method switching? Or is there a way to enable some latent input method in the OS itself, as seemingly listed above?
I'm bilingual in Japanese and English, and I could really, really use a wonderful program like SCIM's Anthy on a smartphone.
Am I insane for trying to achieve this? Or has someone done it? Is this something simple, or impossible? Anyone?
That said, what is the advantage to a linux user of getting an android phone? Is there one? I see linux on my laptop, and think there must be some point or advantage
to having linux on my phone, but I'm smart enough to admit when I'm stupid!
I wasn't sure where to or if I could ask this here. Most of the Android related posts showed up here.
I want to finally get a smartphone, and the Android powered Samsung Captivate looks sweet. I played around with the keyboard
today on one- amazing tactile response, even from my huge fingers. I was typing nearly as fast as with my laptop keyboard, and I still can't believe that.
After looking at the phone's language input options, it internally had French and German. I use SCIM with Anthy Japanese input in Ubuntu, and I noticed
looking around from my laptop on android there appears to be some form of Japanese input available to Android, listed as "Japanese (ja_JP)" on here. (http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2.html#locs)
I also found some poorly reviewed apps on the phone's store itself for Japanese input.
HERE'S what I want to know: Since I know next to nothing about how Android works, I want to ask- is there or can there be a way to add the linux program
SCIM to an Android powered smartphone to do input method switching? Or is there a way to enable some latent input method in the OS itself, as seemingly listed above?
I'm bilingual in Japanese and English, and I could really, really use a wonderful program like SCIM's Anthy on a smartphone.
Am I insane for trying to achieve this? Or has someone done it? Is this something simple, or impossible? Anyone?
That said, what is the advantage to a linux user of getting an android phone? Is there one? I see linux on my laptop, and think there must be some point or advantage
to having linux on my phone, but I'm smart enough to admit when I'm stupid!