The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
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FOSS keyboards for Android:
Neither of which supports Chinese, so that's useless for any actual users of Sogou.
I use https://github.com/osfans/trime to type Chinese.
That looks nice. I'll check it out if I have some time later; though my written Chinese is fairly limited. So far the Windows keyboard layout did just fine.
Oh, the one I linked to was actually https://rime.im/ ported to Android. If you want to use it on Windows, please use this link instead. By the way, the required setup on Android is quite a hassle compared to the Windows, macOS, or Linux version.
To repeat a comment I made a bit back, I'm a little disappointed even by the state of English-language Android FOSS onscreen keyboards.
Thanks for the unexpexted Keyboard link, didn't knowabout it.