No PinyinIME branch for Lollipop

Kyle

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Oct 27, 2015, 11:00:03 PM10/27/15

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The default manifest for Lollipop does not contain the PinyinIME (platform/packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME). Additionally, that package stopped branching in AOSP after Kitkat. Has open source maintenance of this app moved off AOSP, or is PinyinIME now only available through the Play Store?

Brian Carlstrom

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Oct 27, 2015, 11:19:02 PM10/27/15

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Yes, it was removed from AOSP due to bit rot. It wasn't accidentally omitted.

-bri

~/aosp-master/.repo/manifests$ git log -S packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME
commit 184c029d911e7da159f3dbfb898099686b10eaa0
Author: Bill Yi <b...@google.com>
Date: Fri May 15 09:07:13 2015 -0700

Remove base gpl files

Change-Id: I6b3e3cd4270965e57e4d41e92128adb6927e88cd

commit 276fcd8bd6e08baa07e71a0e51af2a7173960bf8
Author: Bill Yi <b...@google.com>
Date: Fri Sep 19 12:03:56 2014 -0700

Remove packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME

BUG:17578207
Change-Id: Ifc2a3990312ecfc4cb3dae4a7037938ab187946b
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Kyle <bkyler...@gmail.com> wrote:

The default manifest for Lollipop does not contain the PinyinIME (platform/packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME). Additionally, that package stopped branching in AOSP after Kitkat. Has open source maintenance of this app moved off AOSP, or is PinyinIME now only available through the Play Store?

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arti

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May 2, 2016, 10:08:55 AM5/2/16

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Hi Brian

Is there any possibility to get the latest version of PinyinIME and use in a custom OEM hardware based on AOSP?

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