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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4534 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 5 07 December 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
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I was looking at some android tablets the other day, just messing around with them and I thought they were pretty
cool devices that for something similar, cost about half of an iPod... but there was a problem... particularly I was looking at the samsung galaxy player series and I took a look at the languages it could type in, and unfortunately, japanese wasnt one of them... I didnt see chinese on there either which would be a future problem for me as well does anyone know how to, or have done before, added keyboard support to android devices? as always, thank you for your help :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5466 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 07 December 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
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Any good Android device should offer a bunch of software
keyboards by default, and you can also download third-party keyboards from the Android Market (aka Google Play) and replace the standard keyboard. This will usually work in the store if you choose a free keyboard app, so go to Google Play and search for whatever language you want, plus the word keyboard. A good litmus test for the quality of an Android device is how much Google stuff you see. No Google stuff usually means a nasty knockoff—don't even think of buying it without reading lots of reviews first. Google Mail, Google Play or a Google logo on the back means that the device had to meet a bunch of quality standards. The best guarantee of quality is the word Nexus, which means that Google played a major role and that you'll get a more fully integrated experience and new versions of Android before most other users. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4670 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 07 December 2012 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
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The gold standard for Japanese entry in Android phones is shimeji- I'm not sure if they
have a special version for tablets or if there's a competing program. But if you can install that you should be good, and I'm guessing that with samsung you would be able to- they're hardly a knockoff brand. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4386 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 4 of 5 07 December 2012 at 6:22pm | IP Logged |
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Assuming that an Android tablet has access to the same apps as an Android phone (and why
wouldn't it?) you'd need to download MultiLing keyboard and then download the plug-ins for the individual languages you need. I don't have Japanese or Chinese, but I have Arabic script, Serbian cyrillic and the Spanish and Croatian versions of the Latin alphabet. I'm pretty happy with MultiLing, the plug-ins come with built-in spell checker for each language and it's free. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5469 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 5 of 5 09 December 2012 at 6:39pm | IP Logged |
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I've used a few different Android keyboards for Korean but, like JohannaNYC, finally settled on MultiLing since it can handle a huge list of languages, has voice recognition, is free, and seems to work really well overall.
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