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Fcitx5 for Android vs Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法): catalog facts
Fcitx5 for Android	Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法)
Free Free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 licence.	Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0.
Android	Android
Many Chinese input schemes built in RIME plugin with custom schema import	Over 28,000 characters, including vernacular Cantonese Choice of traditional or simplified character preference
Keyboard layout is not customizable yet Google Play builds use a different signature from GitHub and F-Droid builds	Android only Minimalist feature set compared with large commercial keyboards
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-3.0-only
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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