My Journey to RIME-Array v2.0

This post is about a Chinese input method. The Chinese version of this post can be found here.

If you want to know more about this amazing Chinese input method, you may find an English tutorial at FISH UP.

Since a year ago, I realized that RIME is a highly customizable input method engine. I see it as a sustainable platform to develop Array30 Chinese input method, which is an easy-to-learn and efficient Chinese input method. Then I started developing the rime-array configuration on RIME repository to rebuild a number of important input features that the official Array had defined. The changes were accepted and became v1.0. From time to time, I still think how to further improve this configuration to make it more suitable to all general Array users and to provide more useful features.

Months ago, I found that it is quite difficult to type emoji on some social platforms (such as Instagram) as both the apps and the IME keyboard don’t provide an emoji keyboard. For this I designed an emoji input method for rime-array which encoded emoji to A-L on the keyboard. This feature then became v1.1 on rime-array repository. I also felt the default keyboard layout on Trime (an RIME frontend on Android) has the lack of number keys and Array30 key labels, which are not convenient to Array30 users. Therefore, I designed a new keyboard layout for Trime’s…