AAQR: TouchPal Keyboard (free)

TouchPal Keyboard
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TouchPal Keyboard is a Chinese/English keyboard from CooTek that is very good in binlingual input. It also has multiple layouts (regular QWERTY, SureType QWERTY w/ 2 letters per key, and so on) for English and both Pinyin and Handwriting input for Chinese. You can even mix language input (no mode swapping needed, app autodetects input language) and voice and handwriting input, even for Chinese.

It also supports whole sentence input for Chinese, instead of one character at a time. What's more, you can do tap-slide on the buttons to directly input the symbol, instead of jumping to a separate symbols layout.

Worth tying at least. Gestures need to be fixed or made more useful.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/touchpal-keyboard/com.cootek.smartinputv5

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