The Google Pinyin Input is an input method (IME) optimized for typing Chinese on Android.

The app offers a variety of methods for fast and easy input of Chinese characters.

Key features:

- QWERTY Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing and intelligent correction

- 9 key Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing

- Stroke keyboard

- Full screen and half screen handwriting keyboard

- Latin keyboard

- Fuzzy pinyin

- Double pinyin

- Optimized UI for different screen sizes

- Voice input

- Themes

The app supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as punctuation, emoticons, Latin characters and digits. Voice input is network-based in order to provide highly accurate matches.

Note: To be used on your Android device, the input method must be enabled in "Settings" → "Language & Input".

For typing Cantonese, you could download the Google Cantonese Input:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.cantonese

For typing traditional Chinese by Zhuyin or Cangjie, you could download the Google Zhuyin Input:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.zhuyin