Every language Flikzi types
| Language | How you type | What helps you |
|---|---|---|
| English | Letters | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Español · Português (Brasil, Portugal) · Français · Deutsch · Italiano · Nederlands | Letters; hold a letter for its accents | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Svenska · Dansk · Norsk bokmål · Suomi · Polski · Türkçe | Letters; hold a letter for its accents | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Bahasa Melayu · Bahasa Indonesia | Letters | Suggestions and next-word predictions |
| Tiếng Việt | Telex: aa → â, dd → đ, s f r x j for the tones | Suggestions and next-word predictions |
| Русский | Cyrillic letters on the keys that sound alike | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Українська | Cyrillic letters on the keys that sound alike | Suggestions and next-word predictions |
| 简体中文 · 繁體中文 | Pinyin; Traditional is written as in Taiwan | Sentence and word candidates, predictions |
| 日本語 | Romaji, shown as kana | Kana to kanji conversion |
| 한국어 | Two-set (2-beolsik) Hangul keys | Word completions |
The keys and gestures are the same in every language. Only the letters change: Russian, Ukrainian and Korean put their own letters on the same hexagons, and everything else types on the Latin letters.
Switching
- Choose your languages in Flikzi’s settings, under Languages. Languages your phone uses start on.
- Flick the left space key up to go back to the language you used before. The key shows the one you’re typing in: EN, ES, РУ, 中, あ, 한 and so on.
- Flick up and hold to open a picker of every language you’ve switched on. Slide to one and lift.
Autocorrect that knows all your languages
If you mix languages, you don’t want “gracias” corrected into English. With two or more languages switched on, Flikzi checks every one of them: a word that’s right in any of your languages is left as you typed it, and suggestions come from all of them. The language you’re typing in comes first, and a language you’ve been using in the last few words moves up too. Choose which languages take part under Autocorrect languages in settings.
Chinese and Japanese with English words
In Chinese and Japanese, English words that match the letters you typed show up among the candidates, so a quick “ok” or “meeting” doesn’t need a switch. When the letters can’t be pinyin or romaji, the English word comes first. How pinyin typing works.
What’s still thin
- Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Ukrainian have smaller word lists, so they suggest and predict but don’t autocorrect yet.
- Korean completes words but doesn’t correct or predict the next word.
- Japanese converts as you type but doesn’t predict the next word.
- Not available: zhuyin (bopomofo), Cangjie, handwriting, a kana keyboard, and the settings screen in other languages.
Where the dictionaries come from
The word lists come from the Android Open Source Project’s LatinIME dictionaries, with next-word data counted from the Tatoeba sentence collection. Pinyin uses the Android Open Source Project’s PinyinIME, Traditional Chinese uses OpenCC’s conversion tables, and Japanese uses the open-source dictionary of Google’s Mozc. All of it ships inside the app and runs on your phone, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. Open-source licences.